a Ga1.6.r o. Yfez. h Ga1.6.g. Rom,z.zg. k Pro,lB.sq. i z Cor.6.r;. .Zlfe. CHAP .1. Expofition vpon the fecond V e R. 3: may not ambition of being reputed faithfull to God, per.. fwade in the Church to fuffer, as much as vaine glorie did amonga Heathens, in loue of their Countrie ? And what proud Pharifee cannot glue an Alines ? What wife Pha- rifee cannot conceale his pride ? ormake choife of honefi, rather then prophase, to be his Seadefinef -? How wife is hypocrifie growne in our times ? how cautionate to auoid the noticed notes of infiñceritie ? For my part,I know not any outward Aa or office of pietie or chari -ie, but Efau might haue performed, as much as Jacob ; Cain,as Abel ; Simon.íY!agur, as Simon `peter. I like Pauls charitie, and will endeauour to imitate it; to thinke he hath faith, whom i fee zealous for the word of faith; defirous to drinke in, if but by th'eare, the f j7ncere mille of the word : To fudge him merciful!, who doth workes of mercie, feeds th'hungrie, cloathes the naked, &c. ordinately, Chritlianly charitable, who prefers in his choife, to doe good to the g houflold o-c faith. All thefe (hall be to me Ifraelites indeed, till God difcouer their hypo - crifie. Howbeit God feeth not as man Teeth; the Lord pon.. dereth the hearts. Pride not thy felfe in the applaufe of men; they fudge as men, not as God : h proue thine owne wore, out of what ground, in what manner, to what end thou perfor- met+ it : So flialt thou haue reioycing in thy felfe, and not in another : i pail?, not of men, but of Clod : Opus operatum confers not grace in the Sacrament, nor euidenceth to thy foule grace to be in ic. There is more in modo then in ope- re: God loues Aduerbs, better then .Adieb %iues. Yet be contented to erre in Charitie : queflion no mans faith, that is a Confeffour; nor anies charitie, that is an Almoner : thou main lawfully erre in charitable ouerwee- ning, cane not but finne, in caufeleffe mifdeeming. Each to other. So ought Chriftian charitie to be rocipro- call ; interchangeably to paffe from each to otfier. He that hash friends, k muffThew himfelfe friend y. Saint Paul cals for an c'trivpicrlia Let no man fo pride himfelfe in opinion of his meriting from
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