as for our selves, we are but your servants. So Christ himselfe; Qui de se loquitur, gloriam propriam quaerit, 1He that speaketh of himself, seeketh his own glory, saith Christ.2 So Paule likewise, Quid Petrus, quid Paulus, quid Apollo, nisi Ministri? What is Peter, what is Paul, what is Apollo? think you them any other ⟨image 8⟩than the servants and ministers of God? Paul hath planted, Apollo watered, but God hath given the increase. The increase came not from Peter, not from Paul, not from Apollo, but from God alone. Apollo, Paul, and Peter, are nothing else but the ministers and servants of God; God is he that giveth the increase, God alone is he that giveth the increase. When the great City of Jerusalem understood of John the Baptist, and began to seek unto him, they asked him, What art thou? He answered them, Ego vox clamantis in deserto, Parate viam Domini. 3I am. said he, a man not worthy to be esteemed, I am but a messenger sent unto you, I am nothing else but a voice to cry, Prepare you the way of the Lord. So Moses and Aaron that had the conducting of the people of God, when the whole Camp was in a tumult and uproar, and the people ran in rage against them, like to have slain them, they stretched out their hands ⟨image 8⟩and said,4 Non contra nos, sed contra Dominum, nam nos qui sumus? This stir, this hurly burly, this tumult, that you make is not, said they, against us, but against God; for alas, what are we? we are but Gods servants, Gods messengers, appointed to lead and guide you. Thus therefore ought every man esteem the Preachers of Gods gospel, as messengers, as servants as Ministers of Christ, thus ought every man think, and judge of them.
as for our selues, wée are but your seruants. So Christ himselfe; Qui de se loquitur, gloriam propriam quaerit, 1Hee that speaketh of himselfe, seeketh his owne glorie, saith Christ.2 So Paule likewise, Quid Petrus, quid Paulus, quid Apollo, nisi Ministri? What is Peter, what is Paule, what is Apollo? thinke you them any other ⟨image 8⟩than the seruants and ministers of God? Paule hath planted, Apollo watered, but God hath giuen the encrease. The encrease came not from Peter, not from Paule, not from Apollo, but from God alone. Apollo, Paule, and Peter, are nothing els but the ministers and seruants of God; God is he that giueth the encrease, God alone is hee that giueth the encrease. When the great Citie of Ierusalem vnderstood of Iohn the Baptist, and began to séeke vnto him, they asked him, What art thou? Hee answered them, Ego vox clamantis in deserto, Parate viam Domini. 3I am. said hee, a man not worthy to be esteemed, I am but a messenger sent vnto you, I am nothing els but a voice to cry, Prepare you the way of the Lord. So Moses and Aaron that had the conducting of the people of God, when the whole Campe was in a tumult and vprore, and the people ran in rage against them, like to haue slaine them, they stretched out their hands ⟨image 8⟩and said,4 Non contra nos, sed contra Dominum, nam nos qui sumus? This stir, this hurly burly, this tumult, that you make is not, said they, against vs, but against God; for alas, what are we? we are but Gods seruants, Gods messengers, appointed to lead and guid you. Thus therefore ought euery man estéeme the Preachers of Gods gospell, as messengers, as seruants as Ministers of Christ, thus ought euery man thinke, and iudge of them.
- 1Joh. 7.Ioh. 7.
- 21. Cor. 3.
- 3John 1.Iohn 1.
- 4Exod. 16.
