' V p .R I G H T N E s. ·saints, ·that Io:~k'= w-h~t Io~t did ~i;~he ·c a fe ot R:~bbah tl1e Cirie, wb.e11 he bdieged it) jpdwas readytotak~ it, h~fel)tto1Ja.'!-'i4, Lying,come thouand befiegeit,lelt thevictory beatrrl.bp.ted unto me; the fame the S~ints are exceeding carefull of, that God might frill haue the prehe- . minenee, that frill, whatfoevcr viCtory they .. haue, whatfqcvcr· wo1 kf they do, it might be attributed to God, and not to themfelues, thts is their confianr diipofition to exalt hiq1 : There– . fore you fee how jealous the ,.:. pofiles -wereof it, wa.r 4.12. when the ptopkwere .read:yto · 1' : exalnhem for the M·irade r'hey 'had wrought, . fay they, i-n fome indignation, Why lookeyou fJH us, tH ifwebyourgodlinej[e had done the worke,to 1 make t,his man whole~ No, f:1y they, the Lord hath done it, thlrt he might exalt his Sonne.They Atl:s.t,U• were careftill to preferre, and to exalt him: and herein indeed our fincerity confifis. This is an infl:ance for matter of honor~ that in any matter of credit, it is the difpofition of rhofe whofe heartsare upright, who watkehefore Got/ perfeelly, toexalt the Lprd, ar.d tofet him above themfdues. So likewife it is in all matters of advantage-, ," In matter and profit: the heart of an upright nnn faith of profit•, thus; fo Godand the Church may be gainers, it isnomatterthough I be a Iofer, fo God may haueh~nour, and his people be faved, and the . · worke g9 ~n, and the Gofpell may haue free paffage, It 1 s no matter what becomes ofme. • You fee, thisdifpofition was in Ultajes,andin . Y 4 Paul:
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