Four books on the eleventh of Matthew

If I be sincere for God, certainly, if the work do go on, though not by me, I may rejoice, if my heart be upright, and be not damnable proud, I am bound to rejoice in it, and bless God, though I can do but little for God, yet blessed be God that there be any can do more than I can, this indeed would be a great deal of comfort in your hearts, you complain of your own weakness, O! you say, you cannot pray, when you go to prayer you have a dead heart, I but can you say, though I have a strait heart, and cannot pray, Oh, I bless God that others have a heart enlarged in prayer, you are not (I hope) wishing that others had as straitened hearts as you, And so thou hast a weak memory, and canst not remember good things, I but blessed be God that hath given gifts to others, that they can remember, and that God hath a great deal of Glory by them, and thus when I am in secret, in my Closet, to be blessing of God that he hath given gifts to others, whereby he hath more Glory than by my self. And so I might name many particulars that are to be objects of an envious heart, but humility rejoiceth in other respects, and if there be any lifted up above me, God sees that he is like to do him more service than I, if I should be lifted up as they are, God sees that I am not able to bear it. It is the speech of old Mr. Dod, he wished himself to be the worst Preacher in all the world, I would to God (saith he) that I were the worst Preacher in all the Kingdom, not that he thought himself worse than he was, but this, that he would have all in the Kingdom better than he. You know Moses when they told him of Eldad and Medad that prophesied in the Camp, he answered, Why dost thou envy them for my sake? I would to God all the Lords People were so, An humble heart ⟨p. 581⟩never is troubled that any credit is gotten from him so God may have Gloty. When as God chose Moses to go to the People of Israel, he would have Aaron to be •he mouth, but Moses should be the chief, Exod. 4. 14. Behold Aaron he cometh forth to meet thee, and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart, no question but God made known to Aaron what his work should be that made him glad at the heart, and though Aaron knew Moses should be above him, and Aaron was the elder brother, yet when he met with Moses he was glad at the heart:

If I be sincere for God, certainly, if the work do go on, though not by me, I may rejoyce, if my heart be upright, and be not damnable proud, I am bound to rejoyce in it, and bless God, though I can do but little for God, yet blessed be God that there be any can do more than I can, this indeed would be a great deal of comfort in your hearts, you complain of your own weakness, O! you say, you cannot pray, when you go to prayer you have a dead heart, I but can you say, though I have a strait heart, and cannot pray, Oh, I bless God that others have a heart enlarged in prayer, you are not (I hope) wishing that others had as straitned hearts as you, And so thou hast a weak memory, and canst not remember good things, I but blessed be God that hath given gifts to others, that they can remember, and that God hath a great deal of Glory by them, and thus when I am in secret, in my Closet, to be blessing of God that he hath given gifts to others, whereby he hath more Glory than by my self. And so I might name many particulars that are to be objects of an envious heart, but humility rejoyceth in other respects, and if there be any lifted up above me, God sees that he is like to do him more service than I, if I should be lifted up as they are, God sees that I am not able to bear it. It is the speech of old Mr. Dod, he wished himself to be the worst Preacher in al the world, I would to God (saith he) that I were the worst Preacher in all the Kingdom, not that he thought himself worse than he was, but this, that he would have all in the Kingdom better than he. You know Moses when they told him of Eldad and Medad that prophesied in the Camp, he answered, Why dost thou envy them for my sake? I would to God all the Lords People were so, An humble heart