The sum of sacred divinity briefly & methodically propoundedThe summe of sacred diuinitie briefly & methodically propounded

For the measure and proportion to be observed in this difference;

For the measure and proportion to bee obserued in this difference;

First, in the service of God, our nature ought to be more prone, and apt unto it, our knowledge greater, our judgement riper, our conscience tenderer, our memory fresher, our desires and will earnester, all things to be done with a greater Affection, Love, Approbation, Cheerfulness, Fear to offend, Sincerity, Zeal, Watchfulness, and continuance both in Profession and ⟨p. 141⟩Action. In which regard, to show how all our Thoughts, Desires, and Affections should thus be taken up, when we come to deal with God, it is said, Thou ^qshalt love the Lord with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength: As if this were proper to the Duties of the first Table, which indeed doth but principally belong to them, and is by proportion to be carried to the rest. Therefore the glory of God ought to be dearer unto us, then the saving of our own souls: As the examples of Moses and Paul do teach us; ^rone desiring to be blotted out of the Book of Life, rather then that Gods great Name should be blasphemed among the Gentiles: The ^sother, for the glorifying of God in the saving of his Brethren the Nation of the Jews, wishing to be anathema, accursed from Christ. But especially Christ himself, as a most absolute and perfect example of all righteousness, doth herein go before us; when the hour being come wherein he was for our sakes to drink up the full cup of the fierce wrath of his Father, and his soul perplexed, that he knew not which way to turn him, yet he more regardeth the glorifying of God, then the saving of himself from that hour, Now ^t