EpijlleofS.PaHl to Titus. CHAP.t. 14. ele. Secondly,his prouidence is euer with theen,his tiesupon them, his eares,his hand, his treafuric open vnto them : yea himfelfe becommeth the portion ofthole that arehis portion;andno good thing can bewan- ting to fuch who haue the Lord their portion,inwhom is no lacke. Art thou poore,defpifed,bafe and abieáin the world; let thy care be CO be- come,Gods peculiar; he was neuer contemptible whome Godhonour- ech as beecannot be honourable whomGoddefpifeth. Vfe. 3. For inaruhlion,to teach vs whoprofeffe our felues the Lords peculiar, ro line vnto him ,rowhofe life we are fer aparr. And this is the Anofl les reafon, Tearenoryour alone therefore 1loriflc God inyour fettles andbodier, for theyare hù : and that we may this doe, we mull propound two rules before vs. r. We mull fee that the whole courfe of our hues be carried according to his pleafure : for looke whofe we are, to himwe mull give vp our felues toobey, Ifwe be the Lords peculiar then no creature in earth can lay claime vuco vs, not the Pope, not the deuil,not finne,no nor our owne lulls muff command vs: for thus the Apoflle rea- fonerh , ye are a chofengeneration , apeculiar people ; dearely beloued, Ibe- feed; youabl?ainefromHoly lulls: this inference Iheweth what a difho- nourable and difgracefull thing it were, for Chriflians fo farre to forget their nobility and dignity, to floope to fuchbale feruices : they fhould rather call tomind that beeing fer apart to the Lords vfe,and like fo ma- ny noblesbeeing to attend the nearefl feruices of their King , they are to heare and fafhion themfelues according to his good pleafure: Deut. 26.18. TheLord bath let thee to be a pretious people veto him , that thou fhouldíl keepe all his comrnaundements. Neither may beleeuers frame them- felues according to the guileofthe world, feting they are called out of the world to be the Lords peculiar.Thofechat are the next feruants in a princes eourt,iiue not according to the fafhions of othercourts, but ac- cording to the manner oftheir own: fo the Lord from this resfon char- gethhis people,that they fhould not conforme vnto the heathen in their fafhions; forye arean holypeople , and the Lord hathchofen you for apre- riots people :in like manner we mull not conforme toRomifh or Italian fafhions, nor the courfes ofloofe andprofanemen amongß our felues: but as we profeffeour (clues the Lords, fo mutt we fquare and order our wayes according to his word. 2. The fecond rule is,that as every percollar ferueth to the pralle of theowner, fo wemull frame our hues andabuions to the praife and glo- ry oCGod, whole we are. This is the reafon of the holy Ghofl , Pial. í35.3r4 `Praifethe Lord, oh ling pratfes vnto the Lord; for the Lord bath chofentaacob to himfelfe, and¡fraelfor hiecheife treat-tire. Wheace it followeth, that whatfoeuer prattrfe would rend to the difhonour of 5 as y Wemufiiee no the Lor4 we ,, whCofe oras,rv, +are. o. I 1.Pera9at. Deur.rgd,r. a God,
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