2,76 eif Chain ofPrinciples. Aph. 4. laid, He feared not the wrath of the king, but endured, as feeing him who is invi/ìble. His convertingwith the great God,had made all thefe to appear to him as pet- ninto rizgr° tnnnra%r, y t things. To a foul truly great no rail worldlymatter hath any true greatnels in it : As ifone could take a fration in. heaven whatfoever is here below would appear but small in his fight by realon of its difrance.. It is accounted by form a great matter to have the frowns and ill word of a great man: But St yam whole conversation was in heaven,made nothing of it. Speak- ing of Diotrophes his malignancy and reproachful) fpeeches he phrafeth it John z ep;f'e thus , prating againfi u 'with malitious v. I O. swords. The term properly fignifieth vaó v r "`ucas. trifling. Though Diotrephes were a great prelate, and his words very malitious; yet theApofles fpirit was railed fo far above them that with him all were but trifles and by him contemned as .inch. AP 1-10
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