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A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in the Abbey…A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres, in the Abbey…
A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peers, in the Abbey at Westminster, the 26. of Novemb. 1645. Being the day appointed for solemn and public humiliation. / By Jer: Burroughs. Published by order of the said House.A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the House of Peeres, in the Abbey at Westminster, the 26. of Novemb. 1645. Being the day appointed for solemne and publique humiliation. / By Jer: Burroughes. Published by order of the said House.
London: printed for R. Dawlman, 1645
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5. By his abundance, his humility is increased; to be humble in the enjoyment of abundance is much, but to be humbled by it is a mystery. 2 Sam. 7.18. The Lord having spoken of great riches and honour he bestowed upon David, and would still further bestow upon him; he tells him his house should be great among the great men of the earth; was Davids heart puffed up by this? No; Then (saith the Text) went King David, and sate before the Lord, and what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto? wherefore thou art great oh God. Saul was little in his own eyes, before God made him great: But when he was made great, God was less esteemed by him. The greater David was, the less he was in his own eyes, and the greater was God in them; not, Lord I am a happy man, that I am made so great; but who am I, and what is my house? but thou art great oh Lord.
5. By his abundance, his humility is increased; to be humble in the enjoyment of abundance is much, but to be humbled by it is a mystery. 2 Sam. 7.18. The Lord having spoken of great riches and honour he bestowed upon David, and would still further bestow upon him; he tels him his house should be great among the great men of the earth; was Davids heart puffed up by this? No; Then (saith the Text) went King David, and sate before the Lord, and what is my house that thou hast brought me hitherto? wherefore thou art great oh God. Saul was little in his own eyes, before God made him great: But when he was made great, God was lesse esteemed by him. The greater David was, the lesse he was in his own eyes, and the greater was God in them; not, Lord I am a happy man, that I am made so great; but who am I, and what is my house? but thou art great oh Lord.
6. Though he judges himself unworthy of the least good he hath, yet his heart is raised in a holy manner above all his abundance; at the same time he judges himself unworthy of the least crumb, and yet he thinks all creatures in heaven and earth too low for him to be his portion, this is a mystery. No man knows in a spiritual way how to abound,