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;94 The vncertalnty of obtaining world y things. made IA. And our Sauiour Chrift threatneth, that whoTh- euer well exalt bimfelfe,JTrallbebrought low, and who /euerwill Matz ;.rs:_ humble himfelfe!hall be exalted. And the Apoftle telleth vs, t.Per.5.5 that God reifteth the proud, and giueth grace to the hum - ble.So the Virgin Mary (peaking out ofher owneexperi- ence, faith, that God bath put do:vne the mightie from their f ats,and bath exalted them aF low degree. Whereof wee haue manifold examples in the booke ofGod, as of Corah and his companions; Athaliab,Haman, Herede, Nebuchadnezerand many others. So that greedie ambition and hungrie hunting after honour, is not the meanesof attaining to it, but rather the high way to dig race and fhame : for as the Wife man rm./ 9./3. faith, thepride ofa man /hall bring him la*, but the humble in f rrrt[hallenioyglory. §.SeU.7. If therefore wee would feeke true honour and bee Pure to The right waY find it let vs not (no lelfe foolifhly then ambitioufly) beg it iofeilteand olche world who bath it not to giue, but delire to haue it of fird like boner. the Lord, who alone hath it at his difpofing. Neither let vs feeke it of our feines, and by our ovine ambitious courfes; Proa,5.27, for the Wife man teacheth vs,that to !earth our 'o!ene glory, is notglory :and euen our Sauiour ( who might challenge this priuiledge better then any man,) affirmed), that if loee,ho- !oh$ 54. ;toured himfelfe, his honour was nothing worth. Andthat it was his father that honoured him. But let vs feeke it of God to whom all. honour belongech,and from whom alto it procee- ztSaatsoE deth. For he it is, as Hannah fpeaketh, that bringeth low and exalteth; he ratfeth vp the poore out of the duff, and lifteth vp. the begger from the dunghill, to get them amongprrnces,and to make them inherit the feate ofglory,bid isgreatneffe and poorer, glory,viflorie, and pratfe; ho' w the lingdome, and riches, and 2.Chron.19. honor come from him,asDauidacknowledgeth, So elfewhere at.ta. hee affirmed), that to come to preferment, is neither from the rtal.75.64. Eafl, nor from the well, nor from the South; but God is the lodge, who maketb 1óà+, and maketh high. Yea even Cyrus Yssra rs, though an heathen confeffeth, that the Lord God of heauen badgiuen him all the &ingdomes of the earth. And contrari- wife Balakaflïrmeth, that hee was furely purpofed to haue promoted Balsam vnto honour, but that bee could not,be- caufe