An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

Yet then God accounts Himself to be exalted.

First, When he is known and acknowledged for the ¹High, Supreme, First being of all things, when we fear Him as a God, when we humble our selves before him as before a God, when we are sensible of the infinite distance there is between him and us, when we are willing to lay down what we are, or have, or can do for the furtherance of his praise, when his Will is made the Rule of all our ways, and especially of his Worship, when we make him the last end of all, when 'tis the great care of our souls, and work of our lives to do what possibly we can that he might be magnified & lifted up in the world, and when we account the least sin a greater evil than can be recompensed by all the good that Heaven and Earth can afford unto us; and now God accounts Himself exalted by us. And this is the Work that all of us have to do; to give up our selves to the exalting of the Name of this blessed ²God; He is worthy, so worthy of honour from us creatures, that though ten thousand millions of Men and Angels should perish eternally for the furtherance of the least degree of his honour, he is worthy of it all, so high is this God, and therefore know it to be our work to endeavour in our places to exalt him, and blessed is that man or woman that when they are to die are able to say, Oh Lord, thou hast been high in my heart, thy Wisdom ³I have adored, and submitted mine unto it, thy Will I have honoured, and yielded mine likewise to it, and it hath been the great care of my soul that I might do something in my place to lift up thy Name according as I have been able; I say, thou mayest go out of the world in peace ⟨p. 131⟩as having done in some measure that thou camest into the world for.

First, When he is known and acknowledged for the