A dcfiaroyer ofmany excellent gifts, z r t take that ever man undertooke, truly todeny himfelfe and Lilly to proftrate and put himfelfe under God and Chrifis yoake. Pharaoh did many things in the way of love and honour to yoJeph, he put his ring upon his hand and array- ed him in veflures oftine linnen, and fet him over his houfe, but yet he referved this unto himfelfe, to be greater in the ,!rone then Jofeph; man may doe much in the way ofout- ward zeale for God, he may exalt God very farre, above his profit, above his pleafure, above his peace, yea, above his life, and yet Bill referve to hi nfeife a preherninence a- bove God, he may cloath the naked, feed the hungry, and give his body to be burned in the caufe of. God, and yet doe all this for himfelfe, more then for his God, for his ovine applaufe more then for the pr'aife of '_od , for the having of á name with men, more then for the glorifying of the name of God, Of all conquefts,'felfè- conqucft is the molt difficult, moft excellent, tnjtt noble and glorious, he Pro.tE.; z; that can o rule his .+iirit (faith Solomon) his proud, his felf- o faking and feif -exalting fpirit, is better then he that taheth a City.Man bath no greater enemy thenhimfif,he never Both mere excellently then when he overcomes himfelfe, the o- vercoming o_ f a Kingdome is nothing in compariforí of mans conqueft of his owne- corruption, prideis the ñrft evill in mans departure fromGod, and the laft evill which is o- vercome in man returning unto Clod. P Shamma flood it p Sam.:a as cut and defended the field When the people fled. Sclf-exal- Cu verse lugs tarion ftands it out like a mighty champion in -the heart etiliua:pu:: of man, when all other lusts feeme totly ; when other Tufts tare/, ¡ztz poft goe out like fire that wants.fewell, yet this lull of flit- iVeftat 'Omen- exaltation, as long as any thingof the old-man remaines da :ulicbiare- in man,will put it feif forth and ftrive to fore aloft,aiudclimbe fat up in the thronof God.Man bath molt caufe to watch & pray agatnfi_ feif-exaltation ofall the evils Which are within him. 4. ,Self exaltation corrupteth and deffroyeth all the giftsend 4Gorrepterof 1 graces befiowed on ',oars ;' the evill herbe in the Pro,hets zll ;fts pot made the pot a pet of death ; ambition and' fit-exal- tation a i i 4' in the foule of man marres all the excellencies of man, turns all his gifts into a pot of death, .poyfons all the S 4 iaidow=
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