5 i 2 10h!k ACs setrt rievpox a.ua .Ó. VS, its query gift and blet ngofGod, in regardofwhole ho- tours and prefermentswe arc but We and contemptible: in regardof whole knowledge, wearc but children , and know nothing : in regard of whole riches, wearebut beggars, and haue nothing. For as Dauid,vvhen he beheld the wonderful) fiame ofthe heauens , thofe glorious creatures, the(untie, the moone , and the flaires , by ami by made this vfe of' it to him- felfe, to confider his ownc vilenes in regardof them , What ía $ M man that thanart windfallof ? or thefemme ofman,that thou vi tcfihim ?So when we compare our (clues with others, that arcas farre about vs, as the heauens are abouti theearth,whofe giftsand graces doe as fine excellouts , as the bright twine- thine the climate candle light : wecannot chute, but be abafh- cd,and confounded in our fillies; acknowledging ,tnt there is no Inch cattle why we fhould fo magnifieour (élues aboue others, andmillific others incomparifon of out felues. But let eueryman prooue his owneworke, and then íhall he haue reioycing in himfelfe onely,and not in another. Here the ApofUe laieth downe another remedie againfÈ felfe.loue, and overweening ofour feints, and it is the frft and . the ¡aft of which I purpofc to entreat , and it (lands in proo. oing and examiningof a mans owne worke by it Idle , with- out comparing it with an others mans worke , and withal) in the approouin; of it vnto God. Let every man approotae his owne worke. And he giues two reafors, why cuery manought , toapprooue his owne worker vntoGod ,& to confider them ablolutely in themfelues , and not relatiueiy in refpe} of o titers : the firfl rcaCon is in this verre, then( ball he bave reioy : g in himfelfe ondly,andnot in another: the fecond,in the next verte, forevery man fhallBearehis aunedasrden. i Touching the remedie. Let every manproorse his mist worke. oie p,gefv. The word tranflated ° proche, fignifieth .alto to approone , as tvádeu¡aiw Rom. r4. 22.Bleed iJbethat conde,nneth not in b'1èv the thine thathe approoaeth. t.C;or. t 6.3 .Whafoeuer yeilalloppreoue Va t`p" or¿flowof by letters. And fo the word is vied inEnalifh, when we. Y a 20 --------¡ 25 34" 35
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