jE 192 Luke 16. Pfal, 4r. t ;. Wicked nien may prize the and aicimi re at !common gifts of the Saint, as tvildom of PhAra/4admired at the lorepb, and Ns- I Ibuchidilezzer ad. mired at cue wit. dom of Daniel; but they never prize nor admire at their graces. `Evdry one that idoth evil, hateth 3. zo. the job. " is 4. No unregenerate pm fon hash a love to all the Saints; for though he eans to love me, yet he ath, others; he guilty of fulfill partiality, having l o to A Box of precious Ointment.: Or, ii cloathed with rags and full of (ores, than upon a rich and wretched Diver, though he be cloathedglorioufly, and fares farriptioully every car. This is, and this mutt be for a lamen- tation, that this poor, blind, mad, befotted world rates and values men accoi ding to their worldly ittereft,greatnels,glo- ry and grandure but gracious fouls, they rate and value men by their graces, by their inward excellencies, and by what they are worth for eternity ; in the eye of a gracious man,; there is no wife to a gracious wife, no child to a gracious child no friend to a gracious friend , no, neighbour to a gracious neighbour, no Magiflrate. to a gracious Magiffrate, no Minifter to a gracious Miniller, no Mailer to a gracious Mafter,nor no fervant to a gracious fer- vant ; internal excellencies carries it with a gracious man, before all external glories. The Pas fay, that thcfe feventy fouls that went with lac ,l) into Egypt, were as much worth as all the feventy Nations in the world Doubtlefs, feventy gracious perfc,n1 in the efleem and judgment of thole that are gracious, are more worth than a whole world, yea than feventy worlds of gracelefs perfons. Well Sirs, remember this ; No man can truly prize, and highly value grace in ano- ther, but he that bath grace in his own heart. Some prize Chriftians for their wit, others prize them , for their wealth ; fome prize them for their birth and breeding, others prize them for their beauty and worldly glory; fome prize them for the great things that have been done by them,others prize them for the goad things that they have received,from them ; fome prize them for their Eagles exes, others prize them for their filver tongues, and others prize them for their golden parts ; but he,that is truly gracious, he prizes them for the c,race of God that is in them, he lets the higheil value-upon them for their holinefs, &c., Bot, Thirdly, True love to the Saints is univerfal te) one Clvi- flian as well as another, to all as well as any to poor .1.4- Z4r143 as well as to rich Atraham, to a defpifed lob as well as to an admired David, to an afflicted aleph as well as to a railed Jacob, to a defpifed Difciple as well as to an exalted
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