theBpi¡1letotheÿalatiastt. Chap.6. gunfireof knowledge, grace, and othergifts , then they that" haue !tire? .. An/w. Hemay. For humilitie is not fottifh : the matter in htimilitie cannot thinke his fcholler more learned then hint- ,' feWfe,'except he.flaallthinke againf} his confcience. 'For that faying,Let emery mass thinke better of arother,thenofhimfelfe, mull be reflrainedonly to quails, and not extended to fu- periours in regard of their inferiours. Secondly I anfwer, that the Aponte in that place , fpeaketh notofthe giftesand Io gracesbef}oeved vport men, but oftheperfons thentfelues,and ofthem, not fo tnuch`as they are in the account ofinen, as in theaccount ofGod. For he faith not , Let eater) man thinke another more learned,. trfé, di.fereete, Faber, then himflfe( for fo he may thinke againfl his confcience) but Let a fiery man' 15 thinkeanother ( that is, any other that is his brother in the Lord) better then himfelfe,to wit , before God . And this eucry tnan may doe withgoodconfcience ; for albeit anodic; fhall outwardly feeme more ignorant, negligent, backward,in mattersofreligion there himfelf,yct for anythinghe knoweth, 20 he maybe higher in the fauour ofGod,then he. And therefore . though a man cire in thinkingofanother,bctter thenof him - felfe, yet he (hall not doe any thinga;ainfi his confcience. Thus the`Patklican accounted theproud `Pharifae better then hirnf:lfe.For heheld limas iufl,hitnfellenot worthie toTooke z 5 vp tobeauen : yet herein he finned not , nay, he iscosnmænded` for it,though he erred in his judgementof the Phsarife. And fo" ifthe`Pharifie had reputed the 7's Beanbetter then himfelfe, that is;higher in Gods fauour thenhinifclfe,he had not finned, nor done again!' his confcience. For though he might iudge 30 himfelfe more iuft then thePublican, in regard of his life pa(}, yet for his prefent ef}ate before Godhe could not. Though Dauidknew in the particular quarrel' betwixt Said and him, that Saul was vniuf, and he innocent, yet if he fhould haue thought better oSaulm generall, then ofhinifelfe, he fhould. 35 but haue donehisdutie. "The fourth and laff point, containeth the remediesof this euilLwhich are the rather to be confidered, becaufeit is a great Anne , oneofthofeCcuen which the Lord doth tool} of all de- tell;Prou.6.17. a dangerous finne , halting a beaniewoe at= tendingupon it, Woe to them thatare ',raden: in their otxrae.ty. G g gg 3 Ifa 5tI Phi1 s.;.
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