388 Be not ftrasge to the Poor.. DIRECT. XVII. No not Prange to the poor ones of your lock het impartial to all ; and the fervants of all; mindnot high things, but condeftend to men of low eitate. Rom. 12, i 6. ALL fouls are equally precious unto Chriti; whether rich or poor., O fet the ilrange 'example of Chrifls condefcentïon fí11 before your eyes. Was it the high or the /ow that were hiS familiars ? Did he live in fulnefr,and ride in pomp, and affociate only with the rich and rut ? O, fee himwailing his difciples feet ? And hear him teaching them by that example, what they ought to do for one another. He came not to be mini.. fired untobut to minifer : How fharply did he re- buke his difciples when they firove who (hold be, greateft ? And letting a littlechild before them, bath taught: us what Mutt be our ambition And that he t%,.at z ill be the greettefl mpfl be the tervant of 41: Our greatnefs lieth in the greateít of our humility and ufefulnefs : Math. 18. I 2, 3)4. &. '23. R f. LHk. 22, 24, 25, 26. Math, 20.28. It is lawful and meet that men in power Ihonid be honoured by us, and alto that the people be taught to honour them : and that you keep fuck intereff in them as is needful to the publickgood: and therforeail converfe with them Is not untaw- fu11 But when Miniflers only attend on therich, and are fining'e and P itt.me amorg the poor , it makes them accountedcarnal worldly men; and. as
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