z26 3. itrafon. 6. Meaner. Joh.6.;. Pauls Conver/áon. the Scripture, they abounded in fpirituall know- ledge. Thirdly, confider that as your wages are more, and your talents are more, and your accounts are more, fo likewife your judgements Than be more, ifyou be an example either ofevill to others, or e- vill to your felfe: I fay the greater you are in place, thegreater fhould be your care, becaufe the grea- ter is your finne: Inferiors depend upon fuperiors; confider I pray, if you bee eminent in place, what a good example from you will doe unto others that are under ton ; and on the contrary, what e- vill wil follow from being careleffe and prophane: they will marke you for an example to evill:there- fore you fee that the greater conditions that you are in, the morecaufeyou have to be humble. The fixt meanes to get humiliation is this, you mutt beearneft with God to get the Spirir;for this makes the Law effeéuall : the Rh profiteth no- thing , it ra the prit that yuickneth; the Law and the letter of the Law will not works grace in you no more then the flefh will , except the Spirit goe with it : It is the Spirit that alwaies enlighteneth the mind, and workcs a change in tht whole man, and puts new habits on the faculcies,and objeé}s fir for thofc habits :and here now appeare the diffe. rence betweene the Law and the Gofpel ; nothing will make a man truly humblewithout the Spirit. lithe Lord fhould fpeake unto you this day as hee fpake here to Paul, yet if the fpirit did not fhine into your hearts, it would not bee effec`luall to humble
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