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R.21,
Epl.teanr,
Chap.
5.
3
7
For the
fecond
the
Scripture
teachtth
us,
that
we
mug in
all
things,
Deli,
little,great,evill,
good,have
thankfull hearts.
t
Thef.
5.
t
8.
In
allthings
give
thanks.
So accordingly
fob
bleffed
God when
he had taken
all
away,
even in thefires,
Efay
24.15.
In
all
Davids perfecution, which
was heavie,
yet
fo farre
as
God
was
theworker
of
it,
David
did praife
him, and moft thankfully entertaine
it.
If
the
Lord
have
furred
thee up
c
againfi
me, let
him
accept
an offering,
let him receive from me an
offe-
ring
of
oraife and
thanfgiving;
we doe
thank the Phyfitian
as
wellfor
his
fi..
potion,
as
for
his
reforatives;
nay
more, when we
have found
recovery by them.
Which
doth
convince many
ofus,How
many
of
us are
from
duty
pre.
though
we have
words
ofcourfe
when all goeth well, yet
if
we be
a
little touched,we
are
ready to prove the devils words true, wee curie
God to
his
face.
We
are
like
untamedMules,
full
of
grudging;
take
heed,
murmure not
as
force
of
them
did
and were
deftroyed,but
pray
for
hearts
which
may
praife
God
from the nether hell
:
r.This
is
glo-
rious
to
God; a.This
will cafe all
thy fmart;
Give thanks,and
the
peace
of
God
which
pagith
all
underflanding, Jballpreferve
thy
heart and
minele
to Chrifi.
3.
T
nis
maketh the Devil( retire confounded.
VERSE
21. Submitting
your [e
elves
one
to
another
in thefeare
of
Vsnsè
ar
Gad.
Laftly
in
generali, Humility
is
the
way
to
killed
with grace. sleffed Doll;
are the
poore
in
fpirit.
The hungry l'e
ftlletb with
good
things.
God
gi-
Mat.s.r
verb
grace
to
the humble.
He
letteth them
finde
favour
in
his eyes.
If
Luke
..qg;
one
would
drink,
of
a
fountain
his
fill,
hce mull
floope downe
to
T
Per.5.5.
it
:
and
of
all
grounds, the
vallies are filled
with fruit,,they
have
the
fat dewes and
moyflenings lying on
them,thither
it
tom
meth, there it
continueth. Thus much
in
generali.
The
verfe layeth
downe two
things.
t.
The
thing which
is
to
be done,
Submit,
&c.
z. The
manner, or
ground,
in
the
feare
of
the
Lard.
For that
[Submit]
doth
not teach inferiours their
durieto
fuperi-
ours, but
it
commandeth
fuch
a
fubmiffion as
all owe interchangeably
one
to another.
r
Pet.5.5.
The
Apoftle maketh
this generals
fubmif-
on
to
extend
it
fclfe
as
farre
as
decking our
felves
withhumility
:
The
thing
here laid
downe
is
this,
viz.
that the
higheft
nTuft
fhew fubmif-
fton
toward the loweft.
Now
the
thing here required ftandeth efpe-
cially
in
two
things
:
r.
That
wee
are
to
conceive
of
our
felves
in
comparifon
of
others.
2. In
that
which we
are
todoe to.our
inferiours.
The
firft
is
laid downe
in
that rule,Phil.z.
z.Inlowlineffe
of
winde let
eachefleeme
other better then themJelves.
How
can
Paul trulypratïifc
this rule, thinke and
fay,
be
is
she
leap
a
.9.10
Saints
?
I
Iee
may.
.
f
r. If
he
confider hiiufelfe
as
of
himfelfe, and others
in
regard
of