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''214 A SERMON.Nobility greaterorleJfe^Cap.SttpernaturaUNobility,ofgrace and fpirituall excellencies are luppofedby fome kind of men to be in others, efpecially , ifthey be of lower rank and Icfle account for worldlywifedome than himfelfe, to be nothing but onlyoutward fhewes, pretences and hy pocrifics : heisfurnifliedin his owne conceipr with a compe-*tency,ifnot an extraordinary fiifficiency of naturalland morall endowments : and he never felt eitherthe power ofgrace,neither can pofifibly feeor acknowledge thofe holy operations in others:and therefore hee cannot be perfwadcd, but he isfully as good as the precifeft of them ( for that'sthe language ofprophanenefTe againft grace) andthat there is no worth worth naming, or any truereall goodnefle in thofe they now call Chriftians,over and befides that which hee iindeth in himfelfe.5. Concerning greatneffe ofnobilityjunderftandthat by Nobles I meane both the greater and leflcNobility,according to T>.Smiths diftindion in hisCommoji-r^ealeofEn g l a n d. Andthis doubleNobility is ofdiverfe forts, i. Perfonall, 2. Bydefcent.6, There isyet another Nobility, whichis Divineand fupernaturall in regard whereof all o*ther kindes whatfoever are but fliadowes andlliapes of Noblemfle.Here God istopof thekin,and Religion is the root. Thefe arc truly and theonely Noble indeed, and fo accounted by KingD^-y/^/, though of no account in theWorld at alLHow rarely is the glorious Image of the LordJ E s V s (which oncly creates this cxcellencie)feene