Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…

The occasion of these words you shall see in the two verses going before them. The The Apostle tells the Philippians to whom he wrote, that he would send Timothy to them, which (saith he) will be much for your advantage; and he gives them this reason of it: for saith he in the words before, he will be very diligent to do you any good, to take care of your matters, which he sets out comparatively, saith he I have no man like minded, who will naturally, or faithfully take care to your things. Now he gives a reason why he saith he had no man like minded to Timothy, that would faithfully and naturally take care for their matters; for saith he, this ⟨p. 374⟩is the condition of men, this I have found by experience, every man seeks his own things and not the things of Jesus Christ.

THe occasion of these words you shall see in the two verses going before them. The The Apostle tells the Philippians to whom he wrote, that he would send Timothy to them, which (saith he) will be much for your advantage; and he gives them this reason of it: for saith he in the words before, he will be very diligent to do you any good, to take care of your matters, which he sets out comparatively, saith he I have no man like minded, who will naturally, or faithfully take care to your things. Now he gives a reason why he saith he had no man like minded to Timothy, that would faithfully and naturally take care for their matters; for saith he, this ⟨p. 374⟩is the condition of men, this I have found by experience, every man seekes his own things and not the things of Iesus Christ.

So you see these words contain a complaint of that common condition that common frailty, that general disease and corruption to which all men are subject, every man is apt to seek his own things: every man is apt to it, and for the most part doth it, he seeks his own things, and not the things which are Jesus Christs.

So you see these words containe a complaint of that common condition that common frailty, that generall desease and corruption to which all men are subject, every man is apt to seek his owne things: every man is apt to it, and for the most part doth it, he seekes his own things, and not the things which are Jesus Christs.