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ephefiani,
Chap.
4.
4.41
Paradifc ,
a
goodly creature
,
but
very rare.
Let
us
then labour to
thew
forth
this humility
in all
out Converfa.
í
y
Y
tion,and
carry our
felves
humbly toward God
and man:
Now therefore
as the
elea1
of
god
,
holy
and
beloved,
put en
humblenéffe
of
mirde,
yc.
col;.
rz.
We
cannot without
it
walke
worthy
of
our holy calling. It
is
a
tweet
grace
a
gracious ornament,
a
goodly
piece
of
that
golden
velure,
wherein the
been
fiords
at
the
Kings
right
band.
Chrift
therefore
calls on
us
to lcarne
it
of
him,
Learxeofine,
for
I
am meek
and
lowly
in
mit'i
'7
heart,
&c.
till we
have learned this
of
him, wehave learned nothing
of
him, or nothing which will doe
us
good. And what good
4311
wee
have
of
this!
We
(hall
have(faith
Chrift)
ref
unto ourfollies.
Wee
(hall
fettle our hearts
in
peace and
enjoy much quietneffe
in
our
Celves.
For
this
is
the work
of
humility that
it
will expell
or
calme
in us thoCc
turbulent
paffions
of
anger, revenge
,
hatred, &c.
Which
like boifte-
tous
windes raife (formes
in
our
hearts,
and
difturbe our
peace. And
as
when
the
windes
are laid, the
ayre iscalme: So will;our foules be
at
refs
and peace
in
great wrongs
and difgraces when
theft
pafïionsbee
kept downe. Whereas the heart
of
proud men
is
as
the
fea
which
is
of
it
(elfe
of
an
unquiet difpofìtion,
and betides
doth lye open
t'o
winds
and [formes from without: And
as
there
is
little or no
ccrcaine
calme
in the Sea;
fo [mall
quiet
in
the heart
of
a
proud man.
Secondly, we
(hall have
themore
peace
without
with
others:
for
whence come contentions
abroad, but from pride?
onely
by
pride
doth
Prov.
13.
to.
a
man make contentions,
that
is
the make.bate.
Humility
is a
maker
and maintainer
of
peace,
as
which
is
taught of
lovenot to be provoked,
but
to
fuffer,
beare and
forbeare
in
all
things.
Thirdly,we
fhallbe
by
it
the more
ufefull
in
our places and with our
graces unto men: for by
it
we are made
the more willing
to
ferve:
The
boughes which
are
belt
loaden with fruit, hang
downward,and
we can
with the moft
cafe
gather the
fruit
from them high
trees are
common-
ly
fruitles,and
what growes
on them
is
hard
to
come
by,
it
hangeth
fo
high above our
reach,
So have we more
good
of
the humble,
as
who
have
molt good
in
them,
and
doe
loop
to conìmunicate
it
to
us.
Such
as are proud have for the
molt
part leaft true
good
in
them,
or look
fo
high,that the
fruit they beare cannot be reached
of
Gods poore people.
Fourthly, I
may adde the high favour which they
(hall
attaine unto
with
God;
For
to whom
doth the
Lord
looke, but
to
the
lowly
?
înd
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pf l
378.6
with
whom
cloth
he
dwell, but
with the
humble
f
irit
to
revive
the
fame?
y'
sr6:5.
This
is a
fingular priviledge,
an
high dignity
which wee may oppofe
agaiuft all
the
fcare
of
contempt
and
being neglr
ted amongft
men,
if
we walk
humbly, what matters itwhat
men efteem
ofus, if
it pleafe
the Lord to
have
a
more gracious
refpett
of
us? And
if
he vouchfafe
to
come to
vifit our
Poore cottages, our poore
lowly hearts
,
it
nerd
not trouble
us
that
men paffe
by
us
.
And
I
dare to
fay
that
salmon
did
not
more delight
to be
in
his
fummer
Palace,
the foreft
of
Lebanon,
or to
walke
in
his
goodly gardens,
fet
with
flowers
of
all
forts, or
Or-
chards planted
with
trees
of
all fruit
, then
the Lord doth delight to
3
dwell