Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

posowmair O f the vanitie ofmorld y nobilitie. 331 iudgement, efieemeth and refpe6ieth it not : for as a gift offpelietbnot fmall value hee imparteth it as well to his enemies as to his worldly friends; and aduanceth to this vaine nobilitie,the idolatrous Brie. Pagan,prophane Chriflian, and wicked worldling,as well, yea more commonly, then hisowne children and feruants. So when himfelfe was to make choice of men whom hee would aduance to fit won the royal! throne, and to rule his peopleIfrael,he negle&eth the great nobles of theland, and chufeth Sail, who was feeking his affes ; and he afterwards being reprobated, for his wickedneffe, for the next fuccef fon,he taketh Daiid from following ofhis fheepe.And this tenour he alíoobferueth in chufing fuch as he purpofeth to aduance to bee lirft true members ofthe kingdome ofgrace, and afterwards to raigne with him in his kingdomeofglo_ rie :for as the Apoflle witnefl'eth, nor many mightie, not many noble are called,6it he chufeth the lbeake things of the'oorld to r.Cor.t confound themightie things, and vile things of the world, and things that are defflifed path God chop's, and things that are not,ro bring to nought things that are. Which fentence much more terrible then the thunder,fhould (hake thefé high Ce- dars,and pearcing the harts ofthe proudefi nobilitie,fhould make them quake and tremble, for feare lefk themfelues ihould be in the greater number whom God hath paired by; and neuer to bee at refs, till they haue gathered vnto them - felues bytheirfruites .offan &ification, certaine and particu- larafiurance, that they are in the (Mall number of thete not many whom God hath called. For what will it auaile them to haue ruffled it out in worldly pompe for a (hart and mo- mentanie life, and to bee eternally reprobated ofGod, and excluded from the vnfpeakable ioyes.of his kingdome; yea alto ro fuffer for euer with the prince ofdarknefle, the intol- lerable torments ofhell fire? Thus alto our Saulottr Chxifl ehe.onel donne .of our fú- reante Soueraigrre,and heireapparane to thekkingdome of 4hao Ch ßneg. - heauen, nogle&ed and,contemned this worldlie.nobilitie, Idled worldly both inhimf Ifeand others. For howfoeuerhe was defcen- xobiliriè. ded;ofmoll anciánta ndroyal progenitours,and mi ghtbane affunneti:agforious rifle, and moft honourable titles; yet he regarde:h