6. There is a necessity of deadness to honour, and to learn the noble and excellent art of self-contempt,1 that the Spirit shall teach us that spiritual lesson to be willingly tramped on, and the face spitted on, and the hair plucked off the cheeks, as our Blessed Lord went out and in the way met with spitting and shame, ⟨p. 272⟩Isai. 50.6. Mat. 26.67. Mat. 27.26. O great word! Phil. 4.12. [Greek or Hebrew], I have learned to be abased. 1 Cor. 4.12. Being reviled we bless, being persecuted we suffer, being defamed we entreat, we are made as the filth of the world, and are as the off-scouring of all things unto this day. [Greek or Hebrew], the sweepings of the house: Erasmus, the filth wiped off any thing. Valla, the filth that sticks to the shoes. The Syriac hath a word that noteth the dung of the belly. As the condemned man tumbled into the sea as a sacrifice to Neptune from a steep place was called peripsema. 2So Budaeus thinks Paul alludes to heathen expiations. And when they reproached me, David, Psal. 38.13. But I was as a deaf man that heareth not, as a dumb man that opened not his mouth. The sense and discerning of heat and cold, of railings, and applauses, would be dead: That is mortification, when the sense of hearing is dead to sounds, to music, and to pleasant songs, these are not delightful to a crucified or hanged man, when the life is out: Nor can all the sweet smells, flowers, roses, precious ointments, affect the smelling of a crucified man, nor all the fair and magnific palaces, meadows, gardens, rivers, mountains, hangings, painted pictures, work upon the sight or eyes of a crucified man. When the heart is ravished with honour, as the man who said the glory of Themistocles hindered him to sleep in the night,3 as little mortified as Themistocles who said sleep was taken from him, and he was raised out of his bed in the night by reason of the brave trophy and renown of the victory of Miltiades, that renowned man of Athens, who, as is known, with a 10000. Greeks, put to flight 60000. Persians. And Alexander the Great, his heart must have been waking at the sound of honour, who, when a messenger came running to him full of joy, said what should thou tell me, but that Homer is living again? for he thirsted for nothing so much as honour: And how soft and very nothing is the spirit that is broken with riches or honour and pleasure?
6. There is a necessity of deadnesse to honour, and to learn the noble and excellent arte of self-contempt,1 that the Spirit shall teach us that spirituall lesson to be willingly tramped on, and the face spitted on, and the hair plucked off the cheeks, as our Blessed Lord went out and in the way met with spitting and shame, ⟨p. 272⟩Isai. 50.6. Mat. 26.67. Mat. 27.26. O great word! Phil. 4.12. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, I have learned to be abased. 1 Cor. 4.12. Being reviled we blesse, being persecuted we suffer, being defamed we intreat, we are made as the filth of the world, and are as the off-scouring of all things unto this day. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, the sweepings of the house: Erasmus, the filth wiped off any thing. Valla, the filth that sticks to the shoes. The Syriack hath a word that noteth the dung of the belly. As the condemned man tumbled into the sea as a sacrifice to Neptune from a steep place was called peripsema. 2So Budaeus thinks Paul alludes to heathen expiations. And when they reproached me, David, Psal. 38.13. But I was as a deaf man that heareth not, as a dumb man that opened not his mouth. The sense and discerning of heat and cold, of railings, and applauses, would be dead: That is mortification, when the sense of hearing is dead to sounds, to musick, and to pleasant songs, these are not delightfull to a crucified or hanged man, when the life is out: Nor can all the sweet smells, flowers, roses, precious ointments, affect the smelling of a crucified man, nor all the fair and magnifick pallaces, meadows, gardens, rivers, mountains, hangings, painted pictures, work upon the sight or eyes of a crucified man. When the heart is ravished with honour, as the man who said the glory of Themistocles hindered him to sleep in the night,3
- 17. Deadness to honour.7. Deadnesse to honour.
- 2Sis pro nobis peripsema.
- 3Plutarchus De profectu virtutum lib. 11.5.237. Themistocles somnum sibi Miltiadis Tropheo adimi, eoque see excitari electo. Plutarch. ib. pag. 239. Quid mihi nunciaturus es, nisi Homerum revixisse?Plutarchus De profectu virtutum lib. 11.5.237. Themistocles somnum sibi Miltiadis Tropheo adimi, eoque se excitari electo. Plutarch. ib. pag. 239. Quid mihi nunciaturus es, nisi Homerum revixisse?
