'Chap.'' 8. according to S t M A T T H a 4 V. to this text, as Seduliva teRifieth. Ridiculum capiit 1 Many fuch like examples may be met with in the Legends of the Fathers, of Color. 2.T 8. fuch as were voluntaries in humility (as the Apoffleflilesthem ) 9C4+0r H or rather inhypocrilìe. For, hujus virtutispoffea homines Chrif-ti. 4e9 i+ Beni ade, /ludiofi fuçre, ut tot i in hfpocrißnvere abierit, faith Aretius, here. Humility in many of the Ancients degenerated in- to hypccrifie. ,reAllnot enter into the kingdom ofheaven] One finallowed ex- dudes the kingdom, be it but ambition', or fame fuch inward evil, filch as the world takes no notice of, makesno matter of. Inward bleeding killeth many times, and God by killing 7ezabelt children Reel. :.a ;. with death (i. throwing them toheel) will make all the Churches know that he fearcheth the inwards. Children are Verfe 4. Whoever therefore ¡hall humble, &c.] net lifted up with pride, for the great things they are born to, neither minde they high places : but tie: childe cf a Prince will play with the pooreft , and make him his mate. Chriftians fhouldnot minde high things, but condefcenolto the meaneft, andbe avvot s see. carried by them, as the word fignifieth: efpecially fnce we are all born again. by the fame feed, there is no difErence at all in our birth or inheritance. Why then look we fo bigge one upon another? Why do we flight orbrow-beat any ? Have we not all one father ? Thefame isgreateff in the Kingdom] He that can moll vilihe and nullifie himfelf, (hall behigheU in heaven. When had Da- vidthe kingdom, givenhim in poffeíîì.on, but when he was as a weaned childe ? When was MLlephih'fh:th advanced to `Dal vi<ls to ble, but when he made himfelfa dog, and therefore fit only to lie under the table, yea a dead dog, and therefore fit only for the ditch? He that is to the low pits and caves o r the earth fees the liars in the firmament : when they who are on the tops of the mountains difeern them not. He that is molt humble feeth moll of heaven, and (hail have molt of it : far the lower the ebbe, the higher the tide, and the lower the foundationofvertue is laid, the higher (hall theroofofglory be over laid. \rerf 5, AndwhofJhaUreceive onefich, &c.] S. Luke bath it, p,;,k,9 48, Whoever fhall receive thischilde in my Name. Mcai:ethour Saviour the childe, or thofe that werehumble as that childe ? Both furcly See herehow highly aria regards and rewards humility, even thepiaureof it in little ones. Now ifthe fhadow of this grace H h have 463
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