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2.
Ephefanr,
Chap.
q..
carry themfelves fo
as
becommeth thofe who
have been
trained
up
by her
difcipline
towards
both..Now
towards
God
it appeareth
chief
-
ily in rhefe
things:
Ir
maketh
a
man
that
he
will not ftand upon any
his
excellencies
and dignities which he bath before men
in
the fight
of
God
,
but
re-
nounce
them,
acknowledge
his
and their imperfeEtion, and account
them and himfclfe
as
a
meere nothing.
The
24 Elders fell
donne
before
Chrifi, and
caf!
their
Crownes before
the throne.
David
likewife flood
little on
his
Crone
and Kingdome
when
he fate
before the Lord
and
laid,
Who
am
1,0 Lord Goe,andwhat
it
my
Fathers
heafc!
&c.
L.Abraham
who
was
amongft men
as a
Prince
of
God
, a
man of
eminent power
and
glory, when
he
is
before
God,
he
forgot thisiand
was
but duft
and
allies
in his
apprehenfion:
&
thus no
lofty conceit
have
humble
minded
men
of
their riches, beauty, honours,
excernall
fplendor before
and
in
comparifon
of
God, but
in
their
account
of
them,
thefe are
as
fotmany
flowers, fo much
withering
gra(lè,
as
fliadowes, ftraw,
ftubble,
as
meere vanities.
It
will
not only acknowledge Gods
mercies and benefics,but alfo
ex-
toll
and
amplify
them
as
a
man
is
able, according
to
their
worth,
and
as
farre above
any
worth
of
his;
l
am
left?,faith
Jacob,
then all
thy
mercies
and
truth
which thou haft
/hewed unto
thy
fervant. Which
alfo
David
doth both
in
Gods
benefits
beftowed
on mankind and on
himfelfe:For
of
the
firft he
faith,
What
is
man
that
thou
art
mindfull
of
him,
or
the
f
nne
of
man
that
thou
vifiteff him?
thou haft made him
little
lower
then the An
gels,
thou
haft crownedhim
with
glory
and
c2,tajefly.
And
of
the other,
Who
am 1?
andwhat
is
my
Fathers
houfe
that
thou
haft brought
me
hither-
to?
viz.
as
to
advance me
to the
kingdome, &c.
ltmaketh
a
man
humble
himf
lfeunderGods
judgements,
and
fit
downe
in
filence
under
his
hand.
When
the Lord by
fire
from heaven
deftroyed
L.
arons
two
formes
1Vadab
and
vlbihu,
humility
here
taught
Aaron in
this
great judgment of the Lord upon him and
his, not
to
murmur againft
God,
but to
keep
filence.
To
which godly
filence
it likewife
brought holy David,
who
in great
afflic'tion
fafth,that
he kept
Hence and brake
not out
again(! the Lord,
becanfe
the
Lordhad
done
it.
So
old
Eli,
1
Sam.3.
18.
.
It bringeth
a
man
to wonder
at
the depth
of
Gods
wayes
and
Coun-
fels
,
which though he cannot comprehend,
yer
will
bee
not
fawcily
cavill
ar,
but
with
humble admiration acknowledge
to
bee
molt
wife
and
righteous, breaking out
as
Paul,
o
the depth
o
f
the riches
and
wi
f-
dome
and
knowledge
o
fGod,
how
unfeareheable
are
his
judgements
and
his
wayes
pat finding
out!
It
makes
a
man willingly to undergoe any fervice
to
glorify
God,
though it
firm
bafe and beneath
a
mans
place,
and
ro negleet
his
owne
honour
to
honour the Lord. David
in
the
lowlinellc
of
his
mind
la
yd
afide his royal!
robes
and Kingly (fate, and putting
on
a
litotes
Ephod
in
the
fight
of
the
people,
danced
before
the
vsrke
of
God,
and
when his wife
c.7tt
ichol
upbraided
him with it
as
a
thing
too
bate
for
his
Rate,
he
an-
fwered
I.
Reve1.4
:o.
z
Sam.y.
18.
Gen.gs.
xo.
P
4
S
Lévis.
t
o.
9.
Pfatgg.
io.
4
Roman.
;;.
5.
x
Sam.ó
74:
10,2I.
&c.
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