34 .A profitableExpofition win the glorie and honorof his name,and the content ofhis holy,blcffed, and molt good will. And therefore looke into our petitions earne ttly, how and which way they fettle to that before we make them,and then beg them fpecially for that end. Note. And euen then I fay when we doe fettle in the fecret teftimonie ofañ' inward con- fcience, fuch a flame otloue wrought byagracious fpirit, beyond pow eroffin- full nature to our God in vs, as that if any. preferment ofours, benefiteand good in the court of this world fhould be found of vs to fight againfi his'glory, by and by we find content,naynotacontent only, but euen a reltlefle potting haft, and burning heat to renounce it, to defie it, and to (pit at it : yea were it fuch glory of vs in this world as euer Prince enioyed, and not onely fo againe, but euen amoft willing mind,together with the want ofthat worldly glory or good.whatfoeuer, to wit alfo,as'hathbin it ewed eternall glory, and good in heauen, fo that our God and Father might thereby be honoured. But ô where are we ? where are we in this affe uion ? Wde to our weaknes, and alas our want. Yet let vs fee what fhould be, let vs confeffe what is not,and God for his Citifies fake graunt vs mer. cy. Something is fotncthing and ruer comfortable, nothing is finfull and euer damnable.This lone áo the Lord, and zeale to his glory, it is his gift, and where he will he giueth it. Though we be weake he is thong, and there is no flefh but he can aide it, neither any heart but he can change it, onely let vs fee our want, Luke, . and feelce our good, and certainly we (hall find the fame with him. This world endeth, and God knoweth how(none, and euen this night before the next may my foule be taken fromme,and then all my care for the caufes of this world, where is it ?or whole is it ?it cannot gor with me,it Chaff not follow after me, but ftran- gets perhaps !hall enter vpon my labours, andmy cares fhall make them mightie that will ioy in the lack and lofle of me. III haue followed then this, and negleCled the other, woc is begun, and it (hall neuer end with me. But if I haue cared but competently for this with the other, and euer in thepower of glom grace more for the other than for this, be it veto me an end when it pleafeth God, his mercie !half driue any labours to the good ofthoe I heereloved, and that my loue ofhim, and zeale to his glory (hall follow me, remains with me, and weare the crowne of Gods mercie tot euermore in lyeauen. Thus is it a bleffed thing, to loue Gods glorie, and to Peek his kingdoms with tonfcience of dutie,and feeling ofa future !late :and it is as turfed a thing, onely to-leek our lelucs, and care for eurn a kingdome in this world, if itwerewe could get it, much leffe for far inferior preferments, and fo thereby with the loue of them to be deuoured and eaten vp, as that all fpeech and talk,and thoughts of the other is verge odious to vs, and a mockerie wich vs. You fee the world, the dàaes and times,and you know my meaning. Remember the place ofthefe threepetitions before the other, and remember God in Samuel, They that honour me, them mill Iha. nour, and they that def f s[e me, they Jbak be delpifed : and l end with them. Iefus Chrift in the benefitofhis blood giue.vo care and feeling. t.5am,a. The diuifton then ofthem, and number,aoalfo theorder ofthefe three before theother,yon thus obferue. Now for the matter and meaning ofthitftrft, ifyou will, Haloweddee thy name. This Thal we then vnderfland when we know what is clprifed & meant by the two words in it, Name and Helowed. And therefore concerning thefitft, we are to be aduertifed, that although no one name wherewith the Lord is called in the Scripture,as lehouah,Eloim,Shaddai,or fuch like,fhould either in mind be cóceiued and thought, or in voyee with words expre(fed and fpoken without mofl high re- uerenceas dutie is, yet are none of throe names in this place meant, and much . leffe any IudaicallorPopifhfuperflition 'in any of them confirmed. The lewes for their lehouab, this is no warrant. But the name of GO D fignifieth here that utateftieofG OD; power and infinite vertue that fhyneth, fheweth it felfe in euery thing fo wonderfully. Etien
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