CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

1. They are hereby more bumble and self-emptied; They remember those duties, He that stands, let him take heed he doth not fall, and be not high-minded but fear: Humility and self-emptiness is a comely posture for a Christian, now none are more so, then such who are sensible of their weakness.

1. They are hereby more bumble and self-emptied; They remember those duties, He that stands, let him take heed he doth not fall, and be not high-minded but fear: Humility and self-emptinesse is a comely posture for a Christian, now none are more so, then such who are sensible of their weaknesse.

2. Hereby Christ is advanced and exalted in his power, as the weak Child layeth fast hold on his Fathers arm; Thus the power and might of Christ is to none so welcome as those that find and feel themselves falling, when the Disciples are ready to sink, then they cry our, Master help we perish

2. Hereby Christ is advanced and exalted in his power, as the weak Childe laieth fast hold on his Fathers arm; Thus the power and might of Christ is to none so welcome as those that finde and feel themselves falling, when the Disciples are ready to sink, then they cry our, Master help we perish

3. They walk more thankfully to God, when the Israelites were in a barren wilderness, having no food or water but what God did wonderfully provide for them, then if ever they would be st•rred up to thankfulness; Thus when a child of God wonders that under so many temptations and infirmities he did not this day or that day fall and break his peace with God, he will be provoked to glorify God and admire his grace; The hungry Soul will be thankful for every morsel of bread, and thus will the humble lowly Christian apprehensive of its own imbecilities glorify God for every moments preservation.