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God forbid that any of you should have a thought that the service of God should be a disgrace unto you, that it should be too low a thing for you, that it should be counted a disparagement to you to stoop unto it, that it should be thought a stain to your honours: oh no, it is sin only that spots and stains your honours. Take heed of being ashamed of Jesus Christ in any service of his; his service in the meanest works of it, is a greater honour to you, then you can be to it. It is the unhappiness of many who are of birth and quality, they lose much spiritual good that they might have in communion with Gods servants in their gifts and graces, because of that distance that is between them; and although some duties of religion are taken ⟨p. 47⟩up by them▪ which may in their own thoughts stand with their honours, and correspond with their friends of quality, yet other duties are looked at as too low, as praying in their families when other help is wanting, instructing servants, leaving unnecessary occasions and sports, to attend upon the preaching of the word, calling over what of Gods mind hath been made known to them. The Holy Ghost sets it out as an addition to the honour of those noble men of Berea, Acts 17. 11. that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the Scriptures after they had heard Paul preach, to examine what had been delivered to them: After Oswald, King of Northumberland, was converted by one Aidan a Bishop,¹ it is reported of him, that he disdained not to preach and expound to his subjects and nobles in the English tongue, that which Aidan preached to the Saxons in the Scottish tongue.

God forbid that any of you should have a thought that the service of God should be a disgrace unto you, that it should be too low a thing for you, that it should bee counted a disparagement to you to stoope unto it, that it should be thought a staine to your honours: oh no, it is sinne onely that spots and staines your honours. Take heede of being ashamed of Iesus Christ in any service of his; his service in the meanest workes of it, is a greater honour to you, then you can bee to it. It is the unhappinesse of many who are of birth and quality, they lose much spirituall good that they might have in communion with Gods servants in their gifts and graces, because of that distance that is betweene them; and although some duties of religion are taken