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…

If you ask, What grounds there are, why the godly, though thus exalted by God, ¹are yet humble to others? The Reasons are,

1. 1Why those who are so exalted above others, are yet so humble towards them.

First, Because they are humbled towards God, and such must needs be humble towards men. They have these grounds to humble them Godwards.

1. The sense of all that iniquity which formerly they have committed, or for the present they do commit. Thus Paul from the consciousness of his former impieties ⟨p. 40⟩did till his death go halting with the apprehension of his former miscarriages. They are easily kept low to others, whom God keepeth low to himself. This leprosy upon them will make them ashamed. Though God hath set them on the Pinnacle of the Temple, yet they have corruptions as others; they feel infirmities in themselves, as well as there are in others. Yea in the general, they are condescending to the meanest acts of service, that may promote the spiritual welfare of others. The Disciples wondered to see Christ talk with a woman, John 4. thought it below his greatness, as a Prophet to do so; but he said, It was his meat and drink to his Fathers will, even in that particular. Thus at another time, He washed his Disciples feet, to teach them humility.

1. The sense of all that iniquity which formerly they have committed, or for the present they do commit. Thus Paul from the consciousness of his former impieties