Four books on the eleventh of Matthew

It is a Use of Exhortation, That we would all labour for Lowliness of heart: Know, it is that that is necessary for us, all that we do else is nothing, except we come to learn this of Christ we learn nothing of him, you cannot be said to be a Christian, whatever your profession is, all your brave Duties, and performances are nothing. I remember Chrysostom hath such an expression, saith he, If a man be able to raise the dead, cure the Lame, cleanse the Leper, yet if he be not humble he is the most filthy thing in the world, this is the Grace that we have constant need of upon every occasion, in what state soever. Doth God afflict you? then you have a great deal of need of this Grace to bear your affliction patiently, if you be lifted up, then you have need of this Grace to carry your self so, as you be not raised up against God, Oh! that you would have care of that, when you find God coming in most upon you, that is the time to keep your heart down most. As we read of the Devil to Christ, in Matth. 3. After Christ had that Testimony from Heaven, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased, and the Spirit of God came upon him like a Dove, the next words in the beginning of Chap. 4. is. Then was Jesus led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the Devil, just then; thus it is with Christians as it was with Christ, sometimes in Duties, in Prayer, they are mightily enlarged, and have mighty comforts, and God comes in abundantly unto them, and doth even as it were say, this is my beloved Son, and my beloved Daughter, I have chosen you to life, but expect the very next thing will be, the Devil will take and set thee upon a Pinnacle of the ⟨p. 613⟩Temple to tempt thee, and tempt thee especially to Pride. If God employ you in any great service, then you have need of Humility, it was the beginning of Christs public work of his Ministry that the Devil came to tempt him, then the Devil fell upon him: So if God employ a man in public service, Oh! then the Devil will fall upon him, and tempt him most of all then. I remember Luther, when God began to work upon him, and he appeared to stand up in witnessing for God, it was one special Prayer of his, Oh, that God would deliver me from Pride, and those that God employs in public works had need to pray for this. If God take a man off from any service, he had need have much humility then;

It is a Use of Exhortation, That we would all labor for Lowliness of heart: Know, it is that that is necessary for us, all that we do else is nothing, except we come to learn this of Christ we learn nothing of him, you cannot be said to be a Christian, whatever your profession is, all your brave Duties, and performances are nothing. I remember Chrisostome hath such an expression, saith he, If a man be able to raise the dead, cure the Lame, cleanse the Leaper, yet if he be not humble he is the most filthy thing in the world, this is the Grace that we have constant need of upon every occasion, in what state soever. Doth God afflict you? then you have a great deal of need of this Grace to bear your affliction patiently, if you be lifted up, then you have need of this Grace to carry your self so, as you be not raised up against God, Oh! that you would have care of that, when you find God coming in most upon you, that is the time to keep your heart down most. As we read of the Devill to Christ, in