The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

Not in self-conceitedness, and pride of your self-sufficiency, to set light by the judgment of other men: (That is a heinous sin of it self, and doubled when it is done upon pretence of living upon God alone.) But that really you live so much to God alone, as that all men seem as nothing to you, and their opinion of you, as a blast of wind, in regard of any felicity of your own, which might be placed in their love or praise: Though as a means to Gods service, and their own good, you must please all men to their edification, and become all things to all men, to win them to God, Gal. 1.10, 11. Rom. 15.1, 2. Prov. 11.30. 1 Cor. 9.22. & 10.33. yea and study to please your Governors as your duty, Titus 2.9. But as man-pleasing is the Hypocrites work and wages; so must the pleasing of God be ours, though all the world should be displeased, Matth. 6.1, 2, 3, 5, 6, &c. 2 Tim. 2.4. 1 Cor. 7.32. 1 Thes. 4.1. 2 Cor. 5.8, 9. 1 Thes. 2.4. 1 John 3.22.

Not in self-conceitedness, and pride of your self-sufficiency, to set light by the judgment of other men: (That is a heinous sin of it self, and doubled when it is done upon pretence of living upon God alone.) But that really you live so much to God alone, as that all men seem as nothing to you, and their opinion of you, as a blast of wind, in regard of any felicity of your own, which might be placed in their love or praise: Though as a means to Gods service, and their own good, you must please all men to their edification, and become all things to all men, to win them to God,