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L'pbe¡ians,
Chap.4.
V
z
R.
z,
fwered
that
he
cared not how
vile and low he made himfelfe
to
ho-
nour
God.
And how
did
it
this
way
prevaile
with our
bleffed Saviour,
who to
ferve his
heavenly
Father
and accomplifh his will in
the
redem-
ption
of
mankind,
though bee
were in
the forme
of
God
and equal!
with God, yet
he
emptyed
himfelfe
of
his
glory
,
made himfelfe
of
no
rut.
b,7.
¡
reputation,
tooke on
him
she
forme
of
a
fervant,
and
bumbled
him
/clfe unto
the death, even
to
the death
of
the
Croft.
And thus humility
fhewes
it
felfe
toward
God. Toward
men, thefe
are
the
fpeciall things wherein
it
doth
appeare.
Firft,
it
doth
not affed,nor
feeke
after
praife and
ho.
nour,cior,
the outward
frgnes
of
it.
It
is
not
as a
point
of
pride
in
the
Scribes
and
Pharifees, that
they
loved
to
jet
up
and
donne
in
their
long
Mar.
z;.
5,6,7.
gowns,
to
weare
theirfringes
longer
andtheir phylatieries
broader then
or-
dinary,
to
have
the
uppermofi
(late in their
Synagogues,
and
chiefeft
roome
Mach.
s.
at
flails
,
tobe
faintedand
bowed
to
in
the (!reefs
and
market ,
to
bee
called
Rabbi, and
held
the only matters
of
Ifrael',
that they delighted
ro heare
Luke
2Q.
25.
themfelves praifed, and
toolltrder
that their
praifes fhould be publifh-
ed
with found
of
trumpet,
and
would praile themfelves rather
then
goe without
praife;
which
is
taxed
as
an Epidemical!
difeafe amongft
Prov.eo. e.
men
by
Solomon:
Many men will
boaft,
every one
of
his
ownegood-
neffe.
Humility then teacheth
men to walke
in
another
ftraine, not
to
affeâ
fuch
outward
fignes
of
honour amongft men,
nor
to be
lifted up
therewith out
of
themfelves and above others.
But
if
they
have
them,
according
to
their
place and parts given
them,to
entertaine
them withmodefty
and
without exalting
of
them.
felves
thereupon:
If
they
have them
cot,
not to
ftrive
ncr
contend
thereabout. An humble
man will
rather put them off
from him,
as
Peter did
the Centurions honour
offered
him,
then
affèt
t
them,
as
Ha,
man
did
the bowing
of
every
knee
unto him; and goe away with
leffe
then
his place
may challenge, rather then make
any contentions for
the
fame.
The
like it
is
in
praife,
which humility
will not leek after
,
nor
will
an
humble
man take pleafure
to
heare
his praifes fet
forth
by
o-
ther.
His
opinion that he bath
of
himfelfe
is
fo
mean;
that
he
thinkes
little
praife due
unto him. And farreit
is
from
him
then to chaunt
his
owne
praifes.
Doe
we
begin
to
praife
our
fives
again
r and
,
wee
praife
a.
2
:.
not
our
felves (faith
Pail.)
He will
goe without
it
rather then
beg
ir,
or
proclaitrte
it
himfelfe: If
his
works
praife
him
not,
his
mouth
(hall not.
And
yet
it
may be
that
an
humble
man may fpeak
his
owne
praife, but
he coinmeth to it unwillingly,
he
doth
it
bafhfully:
het
is
forced
to
it
by the
malicious and unjufl calumnies
of
adverfaries,
where it
is
ra-
ther
the glory
of
God
and
credit
of
the
Gofpell which through
his
fides
is
ftruckcn at, then his
owneeftimation
that doth
make him
plead
for
him felfe, and perhaps fpeak his
owne
praife;
or
if
it
be
a
care
of
his
owne good name
that
he have fome refpeét
unto, yet
it
is
not
that
lee
may
be
counted fome
body
among men, but that he may
doe
the
bet.
ter
fervice
unto
God,
and doe
the more good
among men
in his
cal-
ling
,
whereunto
a
good eftimation and report
cloth
much
availe:
Which
loft or abated,
a man
of
good
parts
and
gifts
is
as
a
knife which
is
Luke
20.46.
s
Cor.;.t.
&