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

7. The high-minded are ashamed of low employments: If they be seen doing such work as is accounted base, or proper to poor inferior persons, they think they are dishonoured: If the proud sort of the Pastors of the Church, had been sent as Paul and the Apostles, to travel about the world on foot, and to preach the Gospel in their humble self-denying terms, they would have said that this was an unsufferable drudgery; and Christ must have provided more encouraging rewards of learning, or else he should have been no Master of theirs. Yea a servant that is proud, will disdain the lowest works of your service, as if it were a disgrace to stoop so low.

7. The high-minded are ashamed of low employments: If they be seen doing such work as is accounted base, or proper to poor inferiour persons, they think they are dishonoured: If the proud sort of the Pastors of the Church, had been sent as Paul and the Apostles, to travel about the world on foot, and to preach the Gospel in their humble self-denying terms, they would have said that this was an unsufferable drudgery; and Christ must have provided more encouraging rewards of learning, or else he should have been no Master of theirs. Yea a servant that is proud, will disdain the lowest works of your service, as if it were a disgrace to stoop so low.

But the lowly do learn of Christ another lesson. He stooped to wash and wipe the feet of his Disciples, to teach them what to do toward one another. Not as the Pope doth once a year wash some poor mens feet, by a Scenical ceremony (For Piety and Charity are both turned into imagery and ceremony by Satan, when he would destroy them) but seriously to instruct ⟨p. 461⟩his Ministers themselves, what lowliness they must use towards one another, and to all the flock. Christ went on foot to preach the Gospel, and so did his Apostles; not to oblige us to do so when weakness doth forbid us; nor to deny the benefit of a horse, when we m•y have it; but to teach us that neither Pride shou•d make us ashamed to go on foot, nor laziness make it seem intolerable, when we are called to it. When Christ would appear in state at Jerusalem, he rode upon a borrowed Ass, to fulfil the Prophecy,