Preached upon the Penitentiall Psalmes

              preached upon the Penitenti penitentiall penitentially all psaltes psalmes Ps almes PSAL psal329 329 32.9 329 BE NOTAS NOT AS THE HORSE OR THE MULE WHO HAVE NO understanding WHOSE MOUTH MUST BE HELD IN WITH BIT AND BRIDLE LEST THEY COME NEERE UNTO THEE aks rks fksS GOD above whom there is nothing lookes bookes downewards downewards to us Asoexceptwebelowwhomthereisnothingthatbelongsto JL us looke upward toward him we shall never meet and therefore god foreseeing such a adescent descent madescent in man as might make him incapable and put him out of distance of the rich promises of this psalme psalmo in this text hee forewarnes forewarner forewarnes him of such a descent such a dejection such a diminution of hims himself ehfe effee and first hee forbids a descent generally into a lower nature nolite colite fieri be not made at all not made any other then god hath made you god would have man who was his medal at first when god stamped and im- printed his image in him and was gods robe and garment at last when christ jesus invested and put on our nature god would have this man preserve this dignity nolite colite fieri be not made any new thing secondly he forbids him a descent into certaine particu- lar depravations deprivations and deteriorations of our nature in those qualities which are intimated and specified in the nature and disposition of those two beasts the horse and the mule nolite colite fieri sicat slcut sicut equus fy & aulus mulus be not as the horse or the mule but principally for that which is in the third place quia non intellect intellectus intellects us not because they have no faith but because they have no understanding for then it 1