' -\ The points arethre_e in numberi~ir~,iftheminde ofany mah·l:ie fo eitalted,tbat Ire looketh dowlleon htsbrerhre~,as tfhe fiood ont~e top <?fa f-<'ad~Jjantflicii on t1 1 e fame ground,they doe, that man IS hzs_h-l!imded. Samt .i!t~tuflzmfauh wen : Ei<ciP,t · pomp•tic~ h,.c&. volattca; they arc the fame that you are: They hav:enot >cJijlemtom:. 1111111 em, the famecoat; but they havecutem cQmmunem; the fame slelnne: and within a' few yeares,w~enyou die,ifa man~omewith a Ioyner and~-e~ureall,th:it yoli carry with you;they lhall tarry away With theni as much: and wuhll'l afew ycares after ~ man lhall ncit·be able to difcerne,betweenthe lhouldcr-bladeofone ofthem and orie ofyou. Therefore, no caufe, whyypti fhouldincedereinjlati, ihferiwi, arid from a highmlnde,bewraying it felfe by ahigh loeke,cohtemnethem,as many ofyciu doe. I L('".\. ,(~:" • fay then,if any ofyou be achilde of<.ifl•ak,and look downe fo upoh another, as it1his. light .his brethren feeme .ug'rajheppers; • Whether it appeare in the coNntenance, in Nwn.t':i:I~ drawing up his eye-browes, in adifdainfu!landfc6rnefu!l eje; fuch an one as David (though he found no penall fiatute ro punifhlt) could neverabide (andDavidw::s a Prov. i•. ~~1 manafter Go o's owne hearl,andthereforeneithercan Go o abide it:]' •Or whether it appeare,ina proudkinde ofDialea'~ffpeech, as was that ofSanl's; Vbi mint Pfal•o• r' .• t/lifleftliMljhAi? Wher~ is t~is Sonne of fjbai r ~hat he come to the Pharifees <fi{on ; s.:..: ~o: • ,: fum fieut: 3 Or whether lt be mthe tollrfe ofthetr hfe; that they be hke to the great· · - _t< ft}bu(to Pikes) that thinke, all the little fifhes in the fireame were made fdrthemtD feedD». So that, it appeareth, they tare nor,what mifery,what b~gge~y,what l!a\1-e-llibao • 1~ , , ry they bring all men to, fo they may fol:einthe hrothof"thecauldron, and welter iri ..•.· .4, ~· their wealth and pleafure: who_are in their fireets and parilhes ls Li~n~,agreat deale Eick.••·i.~ more feared than beloved; as1mpla<Zable as Lamecb to beareany mJury, and will Zeph.J.j, • have for one drop ofbloud, no leff'ethan amans life: what f.llealie I ofbearing in)u. ry! which willdoe injury, and that for no otherreafon butthis, thus it mufi be, fot Hophni wilt havei~ not thM,but thlli; and ex_cept they may doe thus (wh~r they wil!, 1s,m.S:Ii; to whom they w1ll, when and how they w1ll) forfooth they doenorgoverne, rhe1r authority is nothing :in this fort, overbearing all things with theii· countenance.and. wealth, and whofoever fiandeth but up, draTPing him before the !udgement-foatJ, ~tnd • ti.:g.>i.7l J weary~nghim out with Lau.. T~efe men Who doe thus,. from a high_in-bearingof the lam<~~.§] hwl, mphrafe offpeech, and mthe order; or rather dtforder ofthetr ie41mg : ove,r~ looke, over-,crow, and over-beare their brethrencifmeane efiate, it is certaine~ theY. behigh-minded: En"J.uire and looke,whether any be fo. . Secondly, ifany mindedimbe[o high, that the boughes will beate him iio lori.: ger, by exaltinghimfelfe above either his ~tbititie, cDndition or i:al/i,g (a fault, which bath like tocofi our times deare;) that mans footing will faile him,he will'downe; he and his mindeare too high a great deale. The Iatetreafons and con(piracies caine from fuch kinde ofmindes·. For, \vhen the mindes of men will over-reach their abi~ lities, w;hat mull: be the end, but (as we have feene of late) toproveTraitors? Why1. becaufe they have(wg/ne themfelves out oftheir 1kin. Why fo ~ becailfe they had t,;;~· fhed M more on theirpleAjilre than they had: For, fo doing, when they had over-rea~ ched themfelves,they became -oeJ"'T;;,, they mufi take fome heady eiiterprifein hand; What is that ~ to become oe~J'l.,.,; that, feeing their credit is decayed in this State) .T' .. r-' they may fet up a new; and thatis by over-turning the old. .• •m. ,'I.• And not only this paffingthe ability is dangerous to the overturning ofaCominon~· wealth ; but the paffing ofamans conditiontoo! and tendeth t<i the impoverifi1ing, and at lafi to the overthrowoftheefiate al!o.• Whether it be exceff'e ofi/iei:as when being no Magifirate,but plaineM'. Naval,his dinner mu~ l:ie like tothefea.fl ofaKi»g: . • Or wherher it be in exceff'e of apparrell, wherein the pride of Englandnow, as the l !lni.il. !"0·: fride ofEphraim in times pafii 'tejlijieth againjl hertoherfate. 3Or whether it be i!i • Hof.f.f· lifting"P thegate toohigh,that isiin exceff'e ofbt~itding. 4 Or whether itbein keeping b Prov.•p6; too great alraine(Efau's cafe) thatbe go with c foure hundredmen at his taile,"/Heras ' "~~· i ~·!!. the fourtli part of the fourth part would have ferved'his father well enough. r Or M1ethqit beinpetking too high intheir alliance, theBramblesfon itl Lebanpp, mufl ' • mat&h,
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