Job 25

We can forget nothing more perniciously than what we are. Man is a worm, says Bildad, and the Son of man is but a worm, Job 25:6. And therefore sayes Job himself, I have said to corruption, you art my father, and to the worm, you art my mother and my sister, chap.

Our Savior has pronounced the blessing of adoption upon the peace-makers (Matthew 5:9), [non-Latin text], those that are for peace, as David professes himself to be (Psalm 120:7), in opposition (such an opposition as meekness is capable of) to those that delight in war (Psalm 68…

'Twas an act of heroical zeal in David, who employed his time waking to the honor of God, which others spent in sleeping: and we read that Paul and Silas sang praises at midnight (Acts 16:25), though then in the stocks, and they had been scourged the day before. And it is said (…

There is none good but one, and that is God. That goodness which we have in participation from him, will appear no goodness in comparison of him; the heavens themselves are not clean in his sight (Job 25:5-6): Behold even to the Moon, and it shines not; indeed the stars are not…