i4-2, 'er he Sai!Jts ----1 good men, ana more honourable fervice to the MajefiieofHeaven. 5· TheylovetheWord, and the free and fruitfull paffage of it, nor ondy be– caufe it bringsoutward peace, and worldly happi– neffe, but becaufe ir.glorifiesGods Name•..and~nlargeth Chrifts Kingdome ; fils Heaven wirh Saints, and the earthwith good Chrifiians. Thus in a man fanfrified with faving faith,· the love to creatures, and all other things, is ferviceableand fubordinate to Gods glory. 4· Afourth fiep and ftaire of our love toGbdp is tohate our felves for love of him·: That is, to be content to loofe our goods,.:..our friends, our Iiber– tie, our lives, rather than to betray his truth and glory, in not !ticking to it, and fianding for it. , The (piriruall heat of this divine flame doth beget in the heart of the true Chrifiian, an holy con· .tempt oftprophane fcoffs, railings, :Oanders, dif:. ·graces; it makes the nob!ell: fpirit, which naturally is mofi impatient of contempt and contumelies, . to digefl: with patience the fpightfull b,alenes orthe prophanefi abjetts, and the railings of the proud. This love bprned in the brefi of David, when hee r~.,.~ ... ·rhus anfwered his fcornfoll wifeMichall, I 7¥Jill;etbe 1JJorerzJile than t/.JuJ. Even Majefiie it felfe fiooped to the mofi difi3a1nfull contempt for the glorifying of God ; and fubmitted his Crowne and Scepter to the frorne and cenfu~e of the meane(t for his fake. This. lovew.a~ ho.trer in the heans of many 1 ' .I ¥ r 1 Martyrs, than ~he fcorching flames about their eares:This alone fnfiained them amid theircruell \ . ' ' . torment$~ and edged themonevenwirh tbekdea. ··· · ·reil
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