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

1. The high-minded are self-willed, and much addicted to rule and domineer. They would have their own wills, in all their own matters, and are hardly brought to submit to the judgment and will of others. Obeying goeth quite against their grain, any further than they like the commands of their superiors: And if they are in any hope of reaching it, they aspire to be the Governors of others, that they may still stand ⟨p. 456⟩uppermost, and have their will in all the matters about them, as well as in their own. If there be a place of Power and Preferment void, the proud man is the forwardest expectant; and maketh no great question of his fitness; but thinketh that he is injured if he be put by, how worthy a man soever be preferred before him: He snuffs and scorns at inferiors that stick at his most sinful and unreasonable commands; and thunders out the charge of Rebellion or Schism against those that question his infallibility, or that will stick at obeying him before God, and against him; as if he had been born to rule, and other men to obey him; and all do him wrong, who fall not down and worship not his will, at the first intimation: Though perhaps he be but a Minister of Christ, who should be as a little child, and the servant of all, and should stoop to the feet of the poorest of the flock, and should receive the weak, and bear with their infirmities; yet Pride will there lift up the head, and forget all the humbling examples and admonitions of Christ, and will either seek to draw Disciples after it, by speaking perverse things, Acts 20.30. or forget 1 Pet. 5.3. Neither us being Lords over Gods heritage, but examples to the flock.

1. The high-minded are self-willed, and much addicted to rule and domineer. They would have their own wills, in all their own matters, and are hardly brought to submit to the judgment and will of others. Obeying goeth quite against their grain, any further than they like the commands of their superiours: And if they are in any hope of reaching it, they aspire to be the Governours of others, that they may still stand ⟨p. 456⟩uppermost, and have their will in all the matters about them, as well as in their own. If there be a place of Power and Preferment void, the proud man is the forwardest expectant; and maketh no great question of his fitness; but thinketh that he is injured if he be put by, how worthy a man soever be preferred before him: He snuffs and scorns at inferiours that stick at his most sinful and unreasonable commands; and thunders out the charge of Rebellion or Schism against those that question his infallibility, or that will stick at obeying him before God, and against him; as if he had been born to rule, and other men to obey him; and all do him wrong, who fall not down and worship not his will, at the first intimation: Though perhaps he be but a Minister of Christ, who should be as a little child, and the servant of all, and should stoop to the feet of the poorest of the flock, and should receive the weak, and bear with their infirmities; yet Pride will there lift up the head, and forget all the humbling examples and admonitions of Christ, and will either seek to draw Disciples after it, by speaking perverse things,