An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

It is not man, either glory, or praise from him, but God alone that his heart is fixed upon. As those that did run in a race (such is our Christianity) did not matter the acclamations of spectators, but the judgement of him who was the Moderator, to judge on whose side the victory was. Thus Paul, 1 Cor. 4. It is a very small thing with me, that I should be judged of you, or of mans judgement, but he that judgeth me is the Lord. It is a miserable bondage to please men, and to be like a looking-glass to every one, seeming to be what he is, that he talketh with: such a man is inconstant, hypocritical, changeth the ways of Religion often, according as humane advantages do intervene; whereas the sincere man, like Christ himself, is the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Like those fishes, Nazianzen in his contemplations, by the Sea ⟨p. 415⟩side, observed that keeping close to the rock were not moved, but the rest were cast out, and are fetched in again according to the ebbing and flowing of the waters: but he that walketh with sincerity, as God is the same, the Scriptures the same, godliness is always the same, so also is he the same. As the Pilot hath his eye always to the Star in the Heavens, not regarding the tempests, or tos•ings of his ship. Thus it is with the sincere man.

It is not man, either glory, or praise from him, but God alone that his heart is fixed upon. As those that did runne in a race (such is our Christianity) did not matter the acclamations of spectators, but the judgement of him who was the Moderator, to judge on whose side the victory was. Thus Paul, 1 Cor. 4. It is a very small thing with me, that I should be judged of you, or of mans judgement, but he that judgeth me is the Lord. It is a miserable bondage to please men, and to be like a looking-glasse to every one, seeming to be what he is, that he talketh with: such a man is inconstant, hypocritical, changeth the wayes of Religion often, according as humane advantages do intervene; whereas the sincere man, like Christ himself, is the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. Like those fishes, Nazianzen in his contemplations, by the Sea ⟨p. 415⟩