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VIER
8.
phefaahr,
Chap.
;.
I.
In
regard
of
the perfon preaching.
2.
In
regard
of
the perfon hearing.
In
us
fpeaking,
all
our inward
qualification,
and
the whole action
of
it,
is
not without the almighty power
of
God.
a
Cor.
ç.
6.
God who
commanded
light
to
thine
out
of
darkneffe,
bath
fhined
in
our
hearts,
&c.
So
for thinking,
fpeaking,
for
it
is
no
leffe
power mutt
make
the dumb
to (peak,
then that which
muff make
the
blinde
to
fee
:
fo
that
if
wee
look at
our owne death
and
inability,
and at
that
enmity
of
the devill,
it is
not
without the almighty power
of
God that ourwords
are
not
in-
tercepted.
Now
all
would be fruitleffewith the hearers,
if
Gods al-
_
Cot
=4
mighty power
fhould
notaccompany; for when
we have done
all wee
can,
it is
nothing: therefore Paul doth teach the
Corinthians
not
in
per
-
fwa ive fpeeches,
but
in
fuch
a
manner, that the fpirit
of
God
did
put
forth
ail
power
in ir.
V
E
x
S.
8. Even
unto me the
haft of
all
Saints is this grace
given,
V
a
R
s,
g.
that
I
fhouldpreach among the Gentiles, the
unfareheable
riches
ofchriß.
Leaft
of
all
Saints.]
Becaufe
for
Chrift
a
fervant
of
all Saints ; as
alto
betau
fe
of
his
bale intreaty from men.
But
how
can
a
fpirituall Saint
fay, he
is
Iefle
then
a
carnali
The
weft.
Apofile
his
fpeeches
are
thus reconciled: the one
fpeakes
what
he was
ei4nf.
by
the
grace
of
God,
when there
was juft occafion
to
confeffe it:
the
ocher
what
he
had been, and what he
was
in
himfelfe confidered: and
fo
the
diftinetion
of
men,
it
is
by grace;
there
being place
for
the
fpi-
ritual
in
other confideration to humble themfelves before the meaneft.
How
could he fay
that ofhimfelfe,that
he was the feaft.
Qxeff.
Becaufe he did
farther
fee his
own
then
the corruption oral! others,
And,,
the
true
fpeaking
doth followthe
true appreheilfion.
Better
to
be
lowly
with
the
meek,
thento(hare
with
the mighty
;
boughes molt laden
with
fruit
bow
more
then the empty. Chrift
an
example.
From the matter obferve,
What
the
mofE
excellent men
muff
thinke
of
themfelves,
they
muß thinke
of
thestsfelves ìnoft
fxbmiffely
:
and
by
how
much God
giveth
an increafe
of
true
grace,
by
fo
much
hee
giveth
in- Doll.
t
creaf
of
true humility
;
fo chat
they
are
in
their owne
eyes fo
much
The moltex-
cellemmen
more
hrtmble,by how much timid eminent
then
others:and
in
this the
mutt chink
A oflle
doth
no more then he calleth
us
all
unto.
ROM.
1
a.
In giving
fubmilfely
of
p
g
themfelves.
honour
floe
one
before
another,
and
Phil.
2.
Let every man
efleem
others
better then
himfelfe; So
Paul
in
molt
abundant humility doth thinke
himfelfe leffe then
thé
'leaft
of
Saints:
for
it
is
humility
to be
fub
jeIt
to our betters,
itis
more
humility to
give place
to
our
equals,
but
to
be
underlings with our inferionts, this is exceeding.
And
as
Paid
doth
fet
himfelfe after
Saints,
fo
t..4gur
doth
abafe
himfelfe under
Pror.;o.,.
i
mankind,
I am
more
fh
then men,
and have
not
the
under/ianding
of
a
man.
And the
Apoftlein two
regards
dóth
thus abate himfelfe.
1.
In
refoeét'of that which
he
had been.
a. In regard
ofthe
remnants
of
finne
which
lace
foinfd
dwelling
with
him; not that there
were more abundant in him
then
in
oihers,but
becaufe
he did more briefly difcerne
them.
The