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and, since man was created with a dominion
over the beasts of the field, he would not let
the ovet__q_"Wvz_.hold him in any slavery. He
]ived as under the eye and awe of the great
God; and, as Basil noted, Yolest miles coram
Rage suo non irasci ob solum Regi¢ majeslaNs
¢minentiam, thus the fear of God still restrained
him from those ebullitions of wrath which
other men are too fearless of."
" And from this account of his temper I may
venture now to proceed unto his vertue, by
which I intend the holiness of his renewed
heart and life, and the change made by the
supernatural grace of Christ upon him, without
which, all vertue is but a name, a sham, a fic-
tion. He was a very holy man. As the an-
cients have assured us Area Scientiam 5"cri_-
lurarum, el villa carnis non amabis ; thus by
reading daily several chapters in both Testa-
ments of the Scriptures, with serious and gracious
reflections thereupon, which he still fol-
lowed with secret prayers, he grew more holy
continually, until, in a flourishing old age, he
was found fit for transplantation.