Four books on the eleventh of Matthew

Eighthly, And then the next thing is this, an humble heart is fit to be employed in great Services, in any great thing for God, no man or woman is so fit to be employed in great things as those that are humble, God himself did a more glorious work in his low estate, then in his high estate, the work of Redemption is a more glorious work, then the work of creation, and in what a low estate was the Lord Jesus Christ in redeeming the world? Christ in dying, and in being made a curse, in that he redeems the world, and Christ never did from all eternity greater things then when he was made a curse for mans sin, as he was a God, Though he thought it no Robbery to be equal with God, As in Pillip. •. Yet he emptied himself as the word is▪ and became obedient unto the death of the Cross, I say, there is a greater thing done by God there in that low estate, then ever was done from all eternity before, And as God doth greater things in his low estate, then in his high estate, so it is with man also, he doth greater things in his low estate then when he is raised high, And hence it is that those great instruments that God used for his honour were kept but low, as Abraham, he wandered up and down a long time▪ and how was he tried, and humbled? And so Joseph, and Daniel, that God intended to do such great things by, and so all the worthies of God, that God made choice instruments for his Glory, they must first be low. And Paul, that was the choicest instrument that ever God had, next to Christ, how low was he? in Acts, 20. 19. He tells ⟨p. 595⟩the elders of Ephesus, He had served the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many Tears and Temptations, And God fitted him to be a great instrument of his Glory. In 2 Cor. 12. 9.

Eightly, And then the next thing is this, an humble heart is fit to be imployed in great Services, in any great thing for God, no man or woman is so fit to be imployed in great things as those that are humble, God himself did a more glorious work in his low estate, then in his high estate, the work of Redemption is a more glorious work, then the work of creation, and in what a low estate was the Lord Jesus Christ in redeeming the world? Christ in dying, and in being made a curse, in that he redeemes the world, and Christ never did from all eternity greater things then when he was made a curse for mans sin, as he was a God, Though he thought it no Robbery to be equal with God, As in Pillip. . Yet he emptied himself as the word is and became obedient unto the death of the Cross, I say, there is a greater thing done by God there in that low estate, then ever was done from all eternity before, And as God doth greater things in his low estate, then in his high estate, so it is with man also, he doth greater things in his low estate then when he is raised high, And hence it is that those great instruments that God used for his honor were kept but low, as Abraham, he wandered up and down a long time and how was he tryed, and humbled? And so Joseph, and Daniel, that God intended to do such great things by, and so al the worthies of God, that God made choice instruments for his Glory, they must first be low. And Paul, that was the choicest instrument that ever God had, next to Christ, how low was he? in