The seal(' feR,sall calling to Chrifi'. 457 And many times Gods owne fervants, eut of the fight of their owne weakneffe, and the difcuu- ragements of their ovine heart; and when they fee themfelves Io farreoutbidden by their parts, then they have fuch a one in a high account, and preferre him above themfelves by many degrees now fee the guife of this man hence it is that this man falls in love with himfelfe, and is lifted upinto afooles paradife,and he begins toadmire _at himfelfe, and for anyma c terof faith, hee loth not queftion it, what a man of fuch wifedome, and fuch underftanding, whatnot he faith? he makes no queftion, htc cannor rnfre of faith, and fo he goes away comfortably and contentedly : thusyou fee the faith ofailsman. Secondly, weecone ro viewand to feewhere he falls fhort, now you fee him : Oh, that the Lord wouldmake him fee hireelfe, andbrethren obferve thus much, few of thofe men areever brought home by the powerfull preachingof the Gofpell ; aid the reafon is, becaufe their owne wifedome is beyond the miniftery ofthe Word, and they fay, fuck a Minitfer is a good Scholer; but had hee that wifedome, and thofe parts, and the like : thus they retire up bulwarkes againft the Word of truth, that it linkes -not into their hearts ; therefore to make this man knowne to birnfelfe, obferve thus much in thegeneral), the bafeneff e. ofthismansfait'', (for itisnobetter,but that he is deluded that he cannot fee it) it difco. ,viers it felfe thus it is bred inhis bookes, and in his judgment. and goesno further, and it is far Mma 3 horn
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