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V.
E
E.
2.
Ephefans,.
Chap.
q...
I'
knowledge the
good
things,
graces and gifts
which God hath
be-
flowed
on
a
man,
but
doth
wifely
underftand
what
is
given him
of
God,and with
thanks
to
the Lord
doth
confeWc,
and
on
juft
occaton
publifh
ir.
To
paffe
over
Gods
graces given
us
, or
fupptelle
then
were foule unthankfulnefle
toward
God,
and
a
touch
of
that
wicked
hypocrify which
Solomon
taxes
in
another
kind
:
There
is
that
waked;
bimf
lfe
poore
having
great
riches.
And
all
the
fruit
that
a
man reapes
of
it
is
that
pufìllanimity and
dejettion
of
fpirir,
whereby
his
gifts
moulder away
without
ufe
to othersor comfort
to
him
felfe
,
and hee
lives
unferviceable to
God
and his
Church. It
flood well enough with
Paule
humility
to
fay and
acknowledge, that
he
by
Gods
grace
waa not
=eor.us'
inferiour
to
the
very
chiefe Apajlles.
The
2.
is,that humility
will
not detraél or
refufe any
work which the
Lord
(hall
calla
man
to,
nor
withdraw thefhoulderfrom that
burden
which
he
fhall
put upon
him.
To
doe this were bale
pufllanimity, or
rather proud difobedience.
It
is
the delight
of
humility
to
doe fervice,
and
its
glory
to
ferve
the Lord.. For
which purpofe
as
the
humble
man
knowes the Lord hath
furnifhed him
with
fuck parts as
he
hath,
I
meane
to
doe
ferv'rçe
to God
in
force or
other
calling
:
fo
when he
fees
the Lords call
laid
on
him,
he
doth
willingly
addrefFe
hiinfelfc
unto it,
yea
though
it
be high
and
hard crafting
to
the
help
and aid
of
God
who
hath called him unto
it,& who(he
is
affured)willnot
faile
tc
ftrengthen
him to goe
through
with it.
Jeremy
goes
not
away
without
a
check,who
out
of
a
low efteem
of
himfelfe
and his
ability
doth
offer
to
put
off that
office
of
a
Prophet
whereunto theLord
tels
him
that
he
had
ordained him.
The
2.
thing propounded
is
the grounds
of
humility,
and
they may
bethefe.
a. Our
meane and bafe originali,
that
we are made but
of
the earth, the
bard:
and
loweft
ofthe
Elements.
The
Lord
loth
re-
call Adam
to
this
thought
when by pride he fought
to
lift up him
felfe
againft
the
Lord. Thou
art
taken
out
of
the earth,
MO
thou
art,
and
to
duff
thou
!halt
return:
The
apprehenfion
whereof
made
Abraham
hum-
ble
in his
dealing
with the Lord:Behold now
I
have
begun
to
fpeak un-
to
my
Lord,and
I am but daft
and
afhes.Nothing
is
more hatefullthen
that
a
man bafely
borne, comming out
of
a
poore cottage
and
from
the dunghill, being railed to wealth
and
honour,fhould forget
his
bate
originals and
be
puffed up in
pride.
What
a
foule
thing
is
this to
fee
man ftand on
his
tiptoes with the
Lord,
and
jellify
himfelfe
be-
fore
him,
who
Both
dwell
in
houle
of
clay
and
whole
foundation
is
in
the
Iob.i4.
17.19:
dull?
Why
is
earth
and
afhes
proud?
The s.
is
our miferable and curled eftate
by
finne.
If
we are
to be
humble
& lowly
minded upon apprehenfion
of
our bale
originall,how
muchmore
is
this
a
ground
of
humility that
by
nature we are children
of
wrath.
We
are
by
finne
become
the
bafeft and
molt wretched
of
all
creatures, vagabonds on
the earth, Gods
enemies, and for all
out-
ward excellencies,
without Gods mercy
,
fire
-
brands
of
hell.
Saint
Paul did
ever
and anon
call his
eftate
to
mind, that
he
had
been
a
refs-
,
Q_
q
cuter,
417
Prov.r;g.
Ier.s.6,7.
Grounds
of
huwiliry.
Teng
Fiji.
Gen.
;.
14.
Gen.t8.
07.