346 Dan.z.3o. Afts z. cz. & 14 . IS. humilba.c omnia qua bene Jacimua & pra- ce0"erit & cemi- tetur, & confe- cuta fuesit, Cr prapnfzta quoins intueamur et op- pufrta cui adha- reamua eer impa- fita qua repri- mamur, &c. Aug Epiú.y'.6. The deceitful/21i of Malls heart. becaufe Chrift flatly denied him his ftrength , and Peter never prayed for it.And yet lo,how confident he was ? Though all men, yet not I ; as though there had beene more in him, than in any other. Yea, he conrraditted Chrift,admonifhing him of his frailty, and as Mark notes, the more Chrift warned him, the more confident and peremptory he was. Laftly,3fcer the doing of every good thing,finceri- y frill remaines humble,&when men would Deifie us, it will not accept of any fuch honours, but fends them back. to the Lord,as in Daniel,& the Apoftles. And thus, ifwe be fincere in all things we do, there mutt be humility, prepofed in regard of the end wee muff look atgoppofed, in regard of the manner ofdo- íng; impofed, after we have clone as a curb to reftrain us left we rejoyce not in the Lord but in our (elver. Obje7. But this is a hard faying, will fome fay and if the caufe be this,who then can be fincere? for who is there that is not tainted with pride, if not in all, yet in force of there three refpeûs ? Anf. It is one thing fora mans eye to glance to- wards a thing, another thing to fix and fully to let tle it Celfe upon it. Thoughts of pride and vaine- glory may rufh into the heart of a fincere Chrifii- an; they refs onely in the heart of an hypocrite,who is let on work onely by them in all his actions, and leeks only to give contentment to them. I adde further, if fincerity bee not humble in this firft kinde of humility, yet at the leaft it is humble in an after-humility.' fit have been over feene in the doing of any thing in pride, it is twice as humble of terward,becaufe it was not humble.A notable diffe- rence
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