liarworldly things contenting cui!sto our neigb6óurs. 71 t aduerfe accident, they cometumbling downe againe,likea bird,which in hishigh flightis finitten withafhor. Andthus arc mens hearts lifted vpinpride withworldly 4.Set1'.5. honours and preferments,infulting ouertheir inferiours,andThat honours, infolently difdainingal thofe,whom they haue outflripped, aches and plct- and in this raceofhonour haue leftbehind them. TowhichPa" make Mex purpofe once faith, ÿ as Toone asthe ambitious manis aduan- Joie and rn- ced to honor,he is puffed vp with pride, &letteth the raines tnnocent.de look to arrogancy&infolence.Neither dothhe care to pro_ vilitate condit. fir,but glorieth that heis preferred, prefuming that hee isfo human:. much betterthen others,as he is higher. He skorneth his-old friends,and will nottake knowledge ofhis ancientacquain- tance,(left he might feeme tohauebin their equall.)Hecon- fortethhinrfelfe with Grangers, and contemnes thofewho werehis familiars before his aduancement; he turneth atida his countenance,flretchethout his neck,fhewethhis haugh- tie harr,fpeakethbig,and meditateth of highmatters; he is impatient offubie&ion,&afpireth to foueraigutie;towhich when he hath attained, he is burthertfome, arrogant,flerne, and infolent to thole who are in fubic&iontohim. Anex- amplewhereofwe haue inRehoboam, whobeforehee could :.Chrouao. haucthecrowne let vponhis head,infolently tyrannized o- I0.tt tier his people. And in Haman,who being highly aduanced in the kingsfauor, was fo puffed vpwith pride,that heexpe- &ed cbeifance and'dutie from all men, and could not indure that v`Ylordecai alonefhould negle& him in this height of glorie. Andhence it is, that the Lord feeling, like a skilful' Phyfition,the lofty beating pulfes ofgreat potentates, and finding them inclinable tofall into the frenzie ofpride, ap- pointethKings and Princes, for the tempting and abating of their proud fpirits, to haue his law continually before them,that when the greatneffe of tiseir place did lift them vp,theymight be humbled byknowing, and continuall re- membring,thatburthenofdutie which did lievpon them. When (faith he) the Kingfballfìi vponthe throne ofhisKing- Deut.t 7.19:50 dome,then"lhall he write him this Lawrepeatedinarbooke,by the PrieFls ofthe Leuites,asd itfhallbe triohhim, andhe(ballreade Zz 4 therein
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