Reioyeing in man dangerous. but man in them : and thus their faith ffandeth in the wiff dome of man, and man the power of God and Chrift ; and this their favouring of man, declares their not favouring of Chrift, their totali alienation and arrangement from Chrift. Some alf> are full of reioycings in man, contrary to the charge of the Apoflle, They reioyce in men ; in the roll: dome of men, in the learning of men, as in the onely light which guides them ;in the authority of men, as in the obligation which binds them ; in the traditions and inventions of men, as in the rule of their religious war- ship and fervice ; in the eloquence of men, as in the load- tone, which drawes them, as in the muficke which af- feas them ; in the enticing words of mans wifdome, as in the onely Rhetorick that delights them ; in the countenance and favour ofman, as in the onely Sun that warms them; in the applaufe and approbation ofman,as in the onely Trum- pet-that makes a joyful! found in their cares ; in the A bilities, gifts, induflry and lalours of man, as in the prime and mine cautes of their falvation, welfare and felicity: And thus their whole acquiefcence is in man, their choyce dependance is upon man, their glorying and rejoycing is terminated m man, the glory of their whole welfare is al- cribed unto man : the .ffraelites rejoyced in the Z Arks!, not in the Lord, and vaine men rejoyee in man,_in the pretence of man, in the ability, favour, power and helpe of man, and not in Chrifl : Thus among the men ofCo- rinth, a One laid 3 am of Paul, and another I am- Of Apol- lo, lookingwith a humane eye upon,and glorying after a car- nal' manner in thofe holy, Meffengers of-God, even ido- lizing and abufing the appointed inftruments of their fal- vation, robbing Chrift of his glory by an inordinate de pendancc upon, and glorying in the Meffengers of Chrift, afcribin2 that to them which was "proper unto Chrift, ex-. alting them into the very roame of Chrift ; fo glorying in them that Chrift was not glorious in their apprehen- lion ; the carnali overvaluing of the inftruments isa fhatne-. full undervaluing of the Lord Jefus. Hee that loth not accor- 33r`" ylCor.3.zl.' I Sam 4.5.,. a I CÓr1,4.. ,-..,-;
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