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Ephefianr
Chap.
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war,
a
blafphemer, an
oppreffor,
that
he
was
the
chiefe
of
jnners,
and did
RQ
carry
about him ;body
of
death,
and
f
vne,
the
fruit
whereof
was
that
as
it did
ènipty him
of
all
windy conceits
of
bis owne excellency,
which might
make him fwell touching himfelfe,
that
he
was5
no
wor-
r
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thy
to be
an' 4pofile,tvzr
as
one
bornest
t
of
due
time , and the
feat of
ad
P
r
Saintt.
A
third ground
is
thegrace andmercy
of
God toward
us
,
by the
which we are
what
we arc;
and
of
whichwe have
all
that
we have,
there
being
nothing that
we can
boaft of
as
our owne;
What haft
thou
that
thou
hap
not
received?
and
ifahou haft received
it,
why
boafkf
thou
1
Cor.
4:7.
a$
i
ftheu
hadit
not
received
it?
Boafi
not
thy
felfe,
and
if
thou
boaft
thy
Rom.a1.
1a
felfe,
thou bearefi
not
the
root, but
the
root thee.
And
if
it
made
orephi.
bofheth
fo
humble
that
he
was
not
enraged at
the
foule
wrong
his fer-
vant
had done him,
nor
difcontente
with
the
rafh
judgement that
sdm.
19.
a7,
David
at
the
firft
or
laic
hearing gave again(t him
, but was
content
:8.
with fomething or nothing,
as
the
King
pleafed,confideringthat when
he
was
asa
dead
dog, the
King
had (hewed him grace
, fed him at
his
owne table, reftored him
to
his
fathers lands, and
that
whatfoever
bee
had,
he enjoyed it meerely
by the
Kings
favour: How humble
fhould
it'make
us
to
thinke
what
mercy the Lord hath
Mewed
us,
that
of
chil-
drenofdeath,
he hath fpared
us, made
us
his
children,
and heires, and
that we
have
nothing but ()thisgrace,
gift and favour
to
us.
4
A fourth ground
is
thehumility of
Iefùs
Chrift
í Let
the fame
mind
Phtt:.s.
be
in
you
that
woo
in
chr:j
lofas. And
if
Chrift who
is
our
Lord
and
matter,
mho
being
in
the
forme
of
God,
thought
it
no robbery to
bee equaQ
with
God,
did
carry
himfelfe
fo humbly toward God
and
man,
as
there
is faid
how low
then
ou
ht we
to
ffoo
g
pe,
and.
to what
hombleneffe
of
mind mutt wecompofe our
felvesthat
are
but
fervants and
fchol-
1ers,
nay, who
are
but poore
wormes
of
the earth?
5,
The
fifth
ground,
let
it
be the frailty
and vanity
of
all
outward
and
earthly things, how
glorious
Mever, which
as lames
fheweth
in one
iamramal. kind
of
them,
are
but as
theflower
of
the
graffe.
The
flower
is
the
bra-
veft and goodlieft part
of
an
hearb
to
fee
to,
but
the
weakeft and that
which doth
fooneft
perifh.The
graffe &
hearb it felfat length
d'oth
wi-
ther,
but oft doth the
flower fade even
the
fame day
that
it
Eft
flouri.
Iheth,
and
the goodly beauty
& fafhion,
with which
it
did
take
up the
eyes
of
men, commeth unto naught:
fo a man himfelfe,as
the
hearb
is
weak, mortali
and
muff
wither at length; but
thefe outward goodly
things, withwhich
as
with
gay garlands
when
he
is
trimmed,
he
is
not
a
little lifted
up and
proud
of them,
are much more
brittle,
fugitive
and
momentany. Let
therefore
(faith the Apoftle)
the
rich,
and
fi
the
Jamc.,%
faire,
the
honourable,
be.
rejoyce
in
that
he is
made
low.
And
wherein
is
he made
low, but
in
the
fickleneffe
of
his
eftate, and frailty
of
thofe
outward things he
bathe which
fhould move him
rather tó
an
humble
ufe
and
enjoyment
of
them,
then
puffe
him up with pride
in
them.
6.
Let
this
be the laft
ground, the
bafe condition
to which
we fhall be
brought by death,
and
wherein we
(hall
be
all
alike,
that
we
(hall make
our