1r 4 Brute. . ParrH. ~hriO:, Matth. xS. IO. The f!me bleffed fpirits that attend the · Lord, and fee his face in blifsful Glory, do aerend and guud the meaneH of the godly here on earth. As the fame,fervants ufe ro wait llpon the Father and rhe children, in the fame family or tbe.. bigger children to help the lefs. ' 9. And it is the Hot~our of the Godly, that they that are them– . felves mo~HonoHr11ble, d? Het~our them; To be magnified by a fool, or wtcked flatterer, 1s fmall Honour : but to be magnified by the befl:and wifefi men, this is true Honour. We fay that .HoNour is in him thac giveeh it, and not in him th;u recciveth.. But it is God himfelf that Honoureth his Saints:Ic is he thac fpeak– , eth all thefe great and wonderous things of them which I have hitherto recited. Search the Texts which I have alledged, and try ,whether it be noc he. And furely to have the God of Heaven to applaud a man, and put Honour upon him, and fo great Honour, is more then if all the world had done it. Yet we may add, (if any thing could be confid~rable that is added unto the appro - , bat ion of God) that all Qis fervant s, the wifdt, and the beft:,evtn ;his holy Angels, are of the fame mind, and honour the godly in .:onformity to their Lord. And here Chriftia • I require thee from the Lord, to confider the greatnefs of thy fin and folly, when thou arc coo defirous of the applaufe of men, efpeciallyof the blind ungodly world ; and .when thou m"kdl: a great matter of their contempt: 0r fcorn, or . of their fianderotls cenfures. What ! is the approbation of the: . eternal God fo fmall a matter in thy eyes, that the fcorn of a _fool can weigh it down , or move the ballance with thee? If a 'feather were put into the fcales againfi a mountain, or the whole earth , it fhould weigh as m1.1ch as the efl:eem or dif-efl:eem of men their honouring thee, or difhonouring thee, fhould wei~h agai~fi the efieem of God, and the honour or difhonour that he puts upon thee, (as toany regard of the thing it felf ; though ,as it refledeth on God, thma maifl: regard it.) He is the wife man that (Jod calls wife : and he is the fool that God calls fool : (and that is every one that IP~yeth Hp riches for himfdf, and u mt rich toWards Go a, LHk..e 12 . 20, 2 I.) He is the Happy man that ·-..- God callsHappy ; and he is a miferablc m~n that God counts miferable: and who r110fe are, you may fee mPjPElm I. and many ~criptures before-cited. Hear ~he words (_an~ you that are Be– lievers,lay up th~ ble!fedpr~mtfe) of ~~r~g ~!mfelf; fohn! z.~Ci ;I ~/ ,,
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