CHAP. I. upon the Epifile of JAM J! s. for their fouls, Exod.3o. I 5. but ifnot, you will perilh'as well as o– thers; as God will not favour the rich, fo he will not pitty the poore. , . . . , . 4.· From the word Tdl7r'Giv®-, tt figmfieth both hnmble, and ofobfervat. 4 • low degree,obferve,That the mean.~fo have the greateft reafon and ingagement to be humble; their condition alwa.ies makerh thegrace. in feafon, Poverty and Pride are maR unfuttable! 'cwas one of Solomom odd fights, Ecclef. ro.7. Tofeefervants on horfeback__, find Princes going on foot: Apoor proud man is aprodigieand Wonder ofpride;he bath lefs temptation ~obeproud,he bath more rea/on to be humble. N ebuchadne.<::.:{.ar was more excufable, for he hada great Babe/, and that was agreat temptation; befides what !hould be in your affeElions, ther~ is fomewhat in your condition to take down the heigth of your fpit·its : 'cis n0t fit for thofe of t~e highe.ft rari~ to turn fafbioni(ls, and difplay the enfignes of thetr own vanity; but whenfervants and tho(e of a low degree, put themfelves into thegarbe, •cis mofl: intollerable. But alas, thus we often finde it, men ufually walke unfuirably ~o their condition, as if they would fupply in pride,what is lacking in eftate and fufficiency; whereas others chat excel in abdices are mofi lowly inminde, as the Sun ar hightfi cafieth leafi lhadows. . 5. Again, from chat [Of low degree,] Godmay[et hu people in_ 0/Jflrvat. 5~ the lowe{f rank... ofmen: A Brother may be Trl.7mvl!ir, bafe and :rbject, in regard of his outward condition; The capt.llin of falvatition, the Son of God himfdf, was Jfa. 53. 3. de !Jife'd and rej.ecffd of men, as we render it, in the original chadal ifchim, deft~ tio virorum, that is, the leaving off of men; implying that heappeared i~1 fuch a form and rank, .that he could fcarce be faid to b~ man, but as ~f he were to be reckoned among fome bafer kinde of creatures, as Pjal. 22. 6. David faith, as a type of him, I am a l17Brmand no man ; rather mbe numbred among the Worm.r, then . among mm, of fo miferableabeing, that you could fcarce call him ma1:1 ; ra·~her V. 7 orm, or fame other notion that is fittefi to exprdfe the lowefl: rank of creatures : vVell then , In the greatefl: mifery fay , I t1m notJ et benelflth the condition ofaSaint, ABrother may · be ba(e and at jeil• .6 . From that [Let the Brother of low degree glory, J That .the Ohfcrvat. 6. ~tlejf andm ofl ab;eft conditio;~ Wilt not excufe us from murmur- :~ng : fhout;hyou be Ttl'lfm&-, bafe, yet y()u may rejoyce and glory
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