Let nothing be done through strife, or vain glory, but in Lowliness of mind, let each esteem others better then themselves. Verse, 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others, let this mind be in you which was also in Jesus Christ, who being in the form of God &c. Do not look upon your own things but upon the things of others, And be careful not to be offensive to any body living, not to be occasion of grief to any body. And so in Rom. 15. 2. Let every one of us please his Neighbour for his good to Edification, for even Christ pleased not himself, but as it is written, the reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me. We should be careful not to please our selves but our Neighbour from the Example of Christ, now what is his Example? But that here in the Text, Learn of me for I am Lowly. Christ, though he were so great, that ⟨p. 572⟩he stood in no need of any body he was God blessed for ever in himself, yet he did not seek to please himself but others, for the Text saith, for even Christ pleased not himself, but as it is written, the reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me. Now still this is in deference to the case of offence, for so you see in the beginning of the Chapter, We then that are strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please our selves, Let every one please his Neighbour, not please our self, but every one please our Neighbour, And that according to the example of Jesus Christ, in this Lowliness of heart. To see Men and Women to walk so, as not to care to give content to any body but themselves in the Family, they must have all the content and no body else pleased: And so among their Neighbours, societies, and companies, they expect that every body in the Company should speak so as to please them, but they care not to speak so as to please others: but here is the guise of a Lowly spirit, to be careful not so much to please it self, as to please others, is careful not to offend others though it may not please it self, is solicitous and studious how he may give content to others, and no way to offend them, that he may no way be an offence unto another, and if they hear any thing that is offensive indeed unto another, and is a grief to the Soul of another, they are much in the denial of themselves in the thing they require, that they may give content to them;
Let nothing be done through strife, or vain glory, but in Lowliness of mind, let each esteem others better then themselves. Verse, 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others, let this mind be in you which was also in Jesus Christ, who being in the form of God &c. Do not look upon your own things but upon the things of others, And be careful not to be offensive to any body living, not to be occasion of grief to any body. And so in Rom. 15. 2. Let every one of us please his Neighbor for his good to Edification, for even Christ pleased not himself, but as it is written, the reproaches of them that reproached thee fel upon me. We should be careful not to please our selves but our Neighbor from the Example of Christ, now what is his Example? But that here in the Text, Learn of me for I am Lowly. Christ, though he were so great, that ⟨p. 572⟩he stood in no need of any body he was God blessed for ever in himself, yet he did not seek to please himself but others, for the Text saith, for even Christ pleased not himself, but as it is written, the reproaches of them that reproached thee fel on me. Now stil this is in deference to the case of offence, for so you see in the beginning of the Chapter, We then that are strong, ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please our selves, Let every one please his Neighbor, not please our self, but every one please our Neighbor, And that according to the example of Jesus Christ, in this Lowliness of heart. To see Men and Women to walk so, as not to care to give content to any body but themselves in the Family, they must have al the content and no body else pleased: And so among their Neighbors, societies, and companies, they expect that every body in the Company should speak so as to please them, but they care not to speak so as to please others: but here is the guise of a Lowly spirit, to be careful not so much to please it self, as to please others, is careful not to offend others though it may not please it self, is solicitous and studious how he may give content to others, and no way to offend them, that he may no way be an offence unto another, and if they hear any thing that is offensive indeed unto another, and is a grief to the Soul of another, they are much in the denial of themselves in the thing they require, that they may give content to them;
