,, ·. G~~ )liihout 4//Cauj-es. . J 1-+~ \ above thee, lt 15 a figne that thou doft ·tt not for Himftlfe tQ his fake, that hath apppinted thee, but for thine t~1ings ,;. owne. -~- - . \~g~ 2 If thou art fit for -abigher place, ifthou re- ~ ftcfi in things that are beneath t.kee for tbygrea... 1 R~!Hng ia ter profit, thou feekfl: thy felfe, an~not the Lord. I e~~gs too . 3 If thou doeLl: relift the provtdence ofGod,\ ; · that wh'eh thouhaft acalling,& art put in it, and In putting a h ft: -h r. If · · c h d mans felfc: t ouputte t y 1C out agam tOrt ya vantage, fromGods iDl· then thinee~d is thine owne felfe. P~tulwent to pleymentfor Macedonia, though he had found but bad enter- : his owne adi. I . . h h . b r h r. I vantage. tamment t ere, yet ewent, eqmte ewas tent. ·So lchnwenn~PathmoJ,tbough the people were but few and barbarous, yet bee obeyedGod, and went. So E/itzh did, when he was ferJt to Ahau, and to prophelieto thelfrt~~elitu, am~ngwhom, for ought bee knew, there was not one Soule that did not bow his knee to BAal. Ezetiel and lfoi•h., w·hen they went to harden the people to deftruClion, went willingly, becaufe theL o .a D fent them: in .all thefe, their williogneffe was , an argument that they dic;l it not for themfelves. A fervant is not to doe hisO\Vneworke, he doth it as'his Maficnvill have him to doe it; ifhe dotb the things that his Mafter bids him, and faith, I amhis fervant; and ifhebid me goe,,I will goe, or if be bidme come, I will.come; ifhebidme . tO keepe within doore, and to doe the meaneft , workes, I will doe them ; this is an argument that he dorh no.t feek himfelfe.Here we fee when a man is thus dependant upon God,and takes im– ployment,neither~bove-bim,norbelow him,nor L 3 refifl:s ,, )
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