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First,¹ by being willing to be employed in any, even the meanest service that God calls them to; we must think no work of God too mean for us, but willingly submit to it, though it darken our honours never so much in the eyes of the world. Thus Jerome writes to Pamachius, ²a godly young noble man, he would have him be eyes to the blind, hands to the weak, feet to the lame, yea if need were to carry water, and cut wood, &c. And what are all these (says he) to buffetings, to spittings, to whippings, ⟨p. 28⟩and to death. Constantinus, Valantinianus, Theodosius, three Emperors called themselves the vassals of Jesus Christ,³ as Socrates reports of them. Theodosius did manifest it indeed in the work of his humiliation for his sin, in the whole Church, casting himself down upon the pavement, weeping, and lamenting for his sin in the face of the whole congregation, which many haughty spirits, though much inferior to him, would have scorned to do. Mean offices,⁴ if in service to Princes, are accounted honourable: the master of the horse, the groom of the stool, they esteem these offices an honourable addition to their nobility, the chiefest of the nobility of a kingdom think themselves not disgraced but honoured by them: shall any service then, performed in obedience to, for the honour of the high and blessed God, be accounted dishonourable, too low for the highest on earth?

First,¹ by being willing to bee employed in any, even the meanest service that God calls them to; wee must thinke no worke of God too meane for us, but willingly submit to it, though it darken our honours never so much in the eyes of the world. Thus Ierome writes to Pamachius, ²a godly young noble man, hee would have him bee eyes to the blind, hands to the weake, feete to the lame, yea if neede were to carry water, and cut wood, &c. And what are all these (saies he) to buffettings, to spittings, to whippings,