Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

Christians should take heed of doing the work of God deceitfully, they should be fervent in Spirit when serving the Lord, Rom. 12.11. Look to your Hearts in all your performances, for Gods eye is fixed upon them: and if they are not present and right with him; your duties are but dead duties; and dead duties are really dead works: so far from being acceptable; that they are an abomination. When Christ was here upon the Earth, as he taught in other places, so he went to the Temple, and to the Synagogues; though there was much corruption in the Jewish Church. Christians should learn so much moderation, as to own what is good even in them in whom there are mixtures of much that is bad, and there should be a cause that will pass for just and sufficient at the great day; before they resolve upon a total separation from their Brethren.

8. Christ is to be followed in his great humility and meekness, Mat. 11.29. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your Souls. Pride overcame the first man; he affected Divinity, and would needs be as God: but behold the Lord Jesus, who is the Eternal God, and he humbled himself and became Man. Humility was the constant attire and ornament of the Man Christ Jesus.

8. Christ is to be followed in his great humility and meekness, Mat. 11.29. Take my yoak upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and ye shall find rest unto your Souls. Pride overcame the first man; he affected Divinity, and would needs be as God: but behold the Lord Jesus, who is the Eternal God, and he humbled himself and became Man. Humility was the constant attire and ornament of the Man Christ Jesus.