Ver :16,17e the Epifile to the Romans. What bit - terneR'e there is in contention aboutreligi oa, the ex- amples of Imes and Samaritan of Arians and Chri- Pians,of bapifts,of ttugonitta, of Luthe- rans and Proteffants, of Forma- lifts and and afiiiEtions of our neighbours, by helping theni to beare the burthen in a common affeEtion. But here is to be obferved, that if in the forrow of our neighbour there be either an errour, mourning when they ought to rejoyce, or being glad when they ought to mourne, or an exceffein either of there, that then our duty is to corre& them by admonition, and not to communicate with them in fuch unruly affe&ion. Al- fo here is the effeEt put for the caufe, weeping outwardly for lamenting in- wardly; yet tearer would be (bed and powred out into any great calamities of our brethren,after the example of Chrifl weeping over Jerufàlem; and Paul for carnali and worldly Gofpellers, Philip. 18. 3. DIA LOCUS IX. Verfes 16,17. Be like afecyioned one towards another. Be not high minded, but make your [elves quell to them of the lower f ort.Be notwife inyour felves, recompetefe no man evill for evil!, procure things beseti in the fight of all men. TIMOrxsus. WHatc/ loth the firftofthefe fix precepts / centaine ? Si L. An exhortation unto concord, which bath in it thefe two branches ; Firft, confent of minde in matters of faith, to thinks the fame things in re- fpett of doEtrine. Secondly, the, knit- ting of the heart and affeEìions in the a&ions and eounfels of life. Thus the Apoftle, Phil. 2.2. having generally ex- horted to concord by the fame phrafe ufed here in the text, (be ye like minded) cloth prefently fubdivide it into con- jun&ion of love and affeEtions, and a- greement in minde and judgement. An example of this concord we have in All. 4.32. a contrary example ofcon- tention in I Cor. I. I I, I2. there is Puritans nothing fo much an enemy to love, to ('as they bé deftroy it, as divifion of mindes, about tailed ) do *knell's. things to be beleeved, and affe &ions about things to be done ; for there is nothing fo able to uphold and continue love, as to imbrace a mutuall confent in faith and a &ions. But becauCe there will fhill be imperfeEtions in the heft men this way,as appeareth by AU. 15. 39. therefore we mutt thrive the more to obey this prece, t, which enjoynes unitie,forbearing one another, and for- giving one another, as Col. 3. 13. and doing according to that which is writ- ten, Phil, 3. 55, 16. Let us minde the fame things. T I os. What is the next precept, and bow doe they cohere and agree with the former ? S I L. In the next three precepts, two hindrances of mutuall concord are removed, and one furtherance thereun- to is commended. The firft hinderance is pride, that is to fay, when in difdain of others, whom we do not take ro be fo good as our felves, we have too lofty a conceit of our owne gifts, and fuffici- ency, and out of a haughtinefre of mind, doe afpire to higher place and matters then we are made or fitted for : this is to be high minded, even to bear a lofty heart, and to afpire in our mindes to high things which be above our capaci- ty and calling. Hence is pride-in Latine, called Su- perbia, even as one would fay, Superire olio:, and in Greek Hypfeloprhonia, that is, lofty- mindedneffe, when men look on high matters, out of a great conceit of their own ftrength, with defpifing others. Of this difeafe was Abfolon ficke, when he ambitioufly afpired to his Fathers Kingdoms : and the Phari- fee in the Gofpell, Luke 18. when out of too great opinion of his owne merits, he difdained the poor Publican t yea the two Apoftles of our Saviour, jams and John, were fomewhat infeEted with this difeafe, when. they ¡trove to be greater then their fellow Apoftles. There were fundry fuch high minded perfons both in the Church of Corinth, and of the Romans, who were too much lifted up with a conceit of their owne Learning , and of the magnificence of their City, being the Lady and Miliris of 529
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