48 I ° t Cor.r.z7,z8. f Heb.tz.z. eMat.f.IS. s r Pct.4.r4. ' Heb.13.t3. k Hcb.tr.z6. 12 Sartt.6.zz. °'Ai}s 14t. C H A P.T. .r4n Expofition upon thefecond V r: R. t O. and abafures we are fubiea unto? Proud nature of man, and vaine- glorious, how makes it good men fometimes more loue the praife of men, then the glorie of God, lohn ra.43. Had we ` Pauls wifedome to looke from things tempo- rali to things eternall, from our prefent contempt, to our future glorie, we fbould eafely refolue to be yet more vile for the Lord. Gods Spirit in Scripture thus armes vs a- gainft the Temptation. i Minding vs how God, from a- mong fl the bafei and mo ft ° contemptible of the world, hath pleated to make his ele6tion to glorie. a Remembring vs of the many more f Indignities, Chrifi for our fakes en- dured. 3 Sending vs to confider our conformitie herein g to Prophets and righteous men, which went before vs. 4 Putting vs in minde, of what it euidencech, the h refi- áng oftheglorious Spirit of God upon vs. ç Withal!, of the high account God makes of vs, honouring vs with his prote'ion; interefiìnghintfelfein our contempt: digni- fying vs with the guard of his glorious Angels, and their miniftring vnto vs. 6 Chiefely of the Glorie refereed for vs againft the life to come ,to which thefe prefent abafures doe after a fort qualifie vs. T befeech you let it preuaile to worke in vs, what `Paul exhorts vnto,To.igoe out ofthe world, bearingthe reproach of Chrift. i Examples wee haue frequent. Cillofes pre- fers in choife the k Rebuke of Chrifl, before all earthly ho- nour. Dauid refolues tube f more vile for the Lord. Apo - flles reioycein fucb reproach, as in their dignitie. a As wicked men are fo much the more tormented, by how much more they haue magnified themfelues ; fo haue Gods children their portions of Glorie, proportioned to their meafures of Abafures here on earth. a Yet this take notice of. This Glorie how euer ours in fruition, yet is Chrifls originally,and from Chrift, ours. by communication, Wherefore bee is faid to be glorifiedin his Saints. There is a Perfonall Glorie of the Mediatour : whereof fee John 17.5. and there is his Sociall Glorie, as I may rearme it, refulting to his perfon, from the Glorie which
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