ABSTRACT
The;£fißli' Dt&cawy* to note, that God.regards not your brave» high, lofty fpirits ^ but poor, meek 3nd contemptible fpirits. Humility is a rare grace. Many .{fsith more eafily give all they have to.' the poor, then, themfei/es become poor in fpirit • be Jaw in your own eyes and be content to be low in the eyes of others • ■ and think not of your felves above what is m:rr, as wer
_ ,, q you would vvrite after your Mothers Co-* 4 * py-and alTcft more to be amongft Gods
<i° ’ little ones, then the great, ones of this world. Be bumble -Chriftians; as cVtr you would be holy be humble • Humility is of the eflence of the new creature: He js notaChrjftianthatis not bumble. The more grace the more humble ; thofe.tbat have been, moft high in fpiritual worth, have; always.been moft humble'in heart. Jgnaxins could fay of hirafelf, Non fum dig*** jUci'mifiimtti, J am not worthy to becafledtheleaft. Lord; 3 am Hell, but thou art Heayen, faid blcfled/fvcper j t am a moft hypocritical wretch, not wor thy that the^anh fhouldbare me, faid hoh Bradford; I have no other name,faith XM ief-then .Sinntr • Sintttr is my name, S ßf-namc . This Is weMitit by which I fiiailBe always knownv I have finned, I do fin, 5
Ruth was-the.' Daughter of the ' King of Meabfl j£ wetnay give credit to!ihc genev rai opifiion of the Rahbivi},' or :if 'that be not fo probable", yet; fhe' was one that we may well fuppöfe to have been one of good quality in herowncountfey,,asi bei ing Wife.or .Afakldn, the cider brother of: the Family of the Prince Naajforr, yet fte accounts nerfelfTcarce equal rb one of £,,ty rheMäid-fervantis iit 'the houfe ’oi-Bcap SoflibigaiJthcwk of the time, i Saw 1 25. '41. So Eliabethl, though' Ihe was the' eldefanchbe' better woman; for 'bury wardquality; yet How confounded Was fliewitb ^ / ^ 's ‘vifit,t3s’betfrg rob great . a weight of honour’for her to. beatv So T Marpy Lfikp t yS., I f Jperc as e^d, laid jSuftih, what U the rcadieft Way to attain It »t bapptncjj, l.vtButd *nfwtrthe 'flfflfl the fetioxd,. the: third thing is FEmility. Huftfility dotl? not.onlv entirle HtoliappF toels, biörrp thehigheft degree of häppi fiefs. ’M at-13.4. HomiHty isthat Iadder.wbidireachesfromEafthi'h'FIeavcn*
Thirdly, imitate her in free charity ^ nd inercyxowards XülMngjfrfedy waintt ^ öhe^hö^reldcw did yoannd-htT^qff örth*nddfiur agijrfft bbaritabietifqtiohs ‘ fhe foiew^ -iJiiat thofe that did gobdro: the
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the Margenc together. 5 he knew-j.That that yvorfbip that is not according'to the Word is an Image of Idolatry, which of ell fins is mofi: provoking to a holy. Jea lous God. The Devil 7 iaiih Symfita, is as glad to be wcrfmpped in ah jdol7 as be was by Jfrael in a Calf, there being no-» £ xeg thing that provokes God to deftroy poor.J finners more then this.’ The learned Jews have a faying, That no pnr.ijhment ever happened so them in which there veas not an ounce of t he golden Calf-y grounding it on Exod. 32-34. -NcxerthtUjs, - J. Wsll remember to vifttthis fm upon, th e m The. Egyptians worfhipped apidc Bulhj and! whereas fome thought irftrange*' ‘ that when one died they ihouid, have another cf the fame colour . Ai'ßin thinks,' that the devil, to keep them in idolatry, mighc do with their Cowes, as Jacob did with the Ewes , prcfent to . them when they conceived the likenefs of, fuch a Bull. Certainly Satan wll.ufe all/the Art he. can to keep'poor finners in. ways., of falfe worfhip, it being the moft compendious Way that can be to engage God to-fleftray than. She knew 3.That that-worihip that is not according to the Woftf, hath-
the tnpft .fidurilhihg Churches. Nations, witnefstheCburchand N i.
