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

Therefore it is tolerable to him, to be made of no reputation ▪ to be laden with reproaches, to be spit upon and buffeted; to be made as the scorn and offscouring of the world, and to have his name cast out as an evil doer, so he be not an evil doer indeed, 1 Cor. 4.13. Luke 6.22. Whatever you think of him, or whatever you say of him, he knoweth that it is little of his ⟨p. 458⟩concernment: your favour is not his felicity; nor are you the Judge, whose sentence must finally decide his cause. He humbleth himself, and therefore can endure to be humbled by others. He chooseth the lowest place himself, and therefore can endure to be low, 1 Cor. 4.3, 4, 5. Luke 14.11. & 18.14. & 14.10.

Therefore it is tolerable to him, to be made of no reputation ▪ to be laden with reproaches, to be spit upon and buffeted; to be made as the scorn and off•scouring of the world, and to have his name cast out as an evil doer, so he be not an evil doer indeed, 1 Cor. 4.13. Luke 6.22. Whatever you think of him, or whatever you say of him, he knoweth that it is little of his ⟨p. 458⟩concernment: your favour is not his felicity; nor are you the Judge, whose sentence must finally decide his cause. He humbleth himself, and therefore can endure to be humbled by others. He chuseth the lowest place himself, and therefore can endure to be low,