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A96329	The danger of greatnesse: or Uzziah his exaltation and destruction: set forth in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lords and Commons assembled in Parliament, and the reverend Assembly of Divines, in the church of Martins in the Fields, the 14th day of January, 1645. being a speciall day of humiliation set apart to seek God, for his direction in the setling of the great worke of church-government. / By Jeremiah Whitaker, a member of the Assembly of Divines.	Whittaker, Jeremiah, 1599-1654.	1646 (1646)	Wing W1711; Thomason E316_1; ESTC R200519	42,588	49

2.21 his end is that all the building fitly fram'd together may grow to be a holy Temple in the Lord in whom ye are builded together for an habitation of God through his Spirit 3. The end that Christ would have us to aim at is that tyranny and schisme may be both prevented and here lyes the great difficulty how Christian liberty may be preserved without opening a door unto licentiousnesse how licentiousnesse may be suppressed and no door opened unto tyranny how the major part should rule the lesse and yet if the major part be worse how the worse should not rule the better In all this worke be cloathed with humility Rule 3. Gal. 5.26 P●●l 2.3 let none be desirous of vain-glory provoking one another envying one another let not any thing be done through strife or vain-glory but in lowlinesse of minde let each esteem another better then himself Let us not look every man on his own things but every man also on the things of others that the same minde may be in us that was in Christ Jesus our Lord this lowlinesse of minde God requires in stead of all offerings and as the Greek Oratour said of Pronunciation in the point of Eloquence so is humility in practicall Christianity The first part is humility the second humility the third humility and if you should aske me saith Austin a thousand times I would answer humility that humility may go before and accompany and follow upon all the things we do well That it may be propounded for the eye of the soul to see it that it may be applied to the heart to cleave to it that it may be imposed upon the spirit that begins to rejoyce in things done well to bal●nce the soul to keep it from swelling or sinking that when sincerity has got the victory pride may not steal away the triumph Be you lift up in the waies of God Rule 4 that you may serve God in this your generation with all integrity Lift up your heads O ye gates and be ye lift up ye everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in this will make us active for God when we behold his greatnesse and when we have done all we can this will preserve us from being lifted up in our selves when we look upon his infinitnesse Isa 40.16 to whom all Lebanon is not sufficient to burn nor all the beasts of the forest sufficient for a burnt-sacrifice therefore let us all endeavour to lift up God above our selves and above all creatures who hath been our glory psal 3.3 our strength and the lifter up of our heads Have your eye upon eternity Rule 5 that you may be sincere and without offence to the day of the coming of the Lord that in that great day when mens hearts shall fail them with fear in looking for the things that are coming upon the world the Lord may single out you and say lift up now your heads Luk. 11.18 for the day of your redemption draws nigh When you shall be made higher then the clouds the soul for ever lifted up and yet the heart ever kept humble Paul was exalted with revelations but when your souls shall be made perfect you shall not only have the same revelation but the fruition and enjoyment of those things that it is not possible for any man to utter 2 Cor. 12.4 7. And yet never be exalted either by the abundance of revelations nor with the perfectnesse of fruitions When the grace of redemption shall carry you higher and make your condition safer then the grace of creation made Adam when he was in Paradise or the Angels in Heaven who left their own habitation and are reserved in everlasting chains in utter darkenesse to the judgement of the great day where we shall have peace without war and joy without grief where as Austin saith there shall be a day without evening where your Sun shall never set nor your Moon go down where your light shall be cleer without any possibility of errour for we shall see him as he is Vocabimus vi lebimus videbimus amalimus amabimus laudabimus Aug. de Civit. Dei where our love shall be perfect without any mixture of self-seeking for Christ shall be all in all where we shall have an eternall Sabbath where we shall rest in his bosom and ever see him see him and ever love him love him and ever praise him and never be weary in admiring and adoring him to all eternity FINIS

ready to be poisoned to death at land What a bisnnesse of spirit is in the sons of men that know not how to endure evil or to enjoy good Have you not known some in a low condition to how and scrape lick the spirtle on the ground crowck and bow humble and debase themselves hummour honour admite adore them that have had power in their hands that by seeming humility they might insinuate themselves into the favour of great ones willing to be low in appearance that they might rise and no sooner have these men got up but they have discoverened unimagined insolency like mad men got up to the top of a Tower with baggs full of stones throw without fear or wit at every passenger like the man possessed in th Gospel who was so fierce that no man could binde him Mark 5.3 or like him of whom Job speaks he riseth up and when he is got on high he draws the mighty with his power Iob. 24.22 and his violence grows so boundlesse that 〈◊〉 man is sure of his life And the Lord tells us though it be given to him to be in safety ver 23. Whereen be resteth yet Gods eyes are upon the waies of such men they are exalied for a little while but presently they are gone and brought low they are taken out of the way as all other oppressours before them and they are cut off as the topps of the ears of corn thus their glory is swift as waters and their portion is cursed in the earth ver 8. ver 20. and wickednesse shall be broken as a tree 1. This may inform us Vse 1 that God looks not only at theactions of men but at their dispositions His eye is not only upon the hand but upon the hearts of the sons of men he looks not only upon the externall act but upon the frame of the Spirit and can declare to every man what is his thought Vzziah mindes nor regards not his own heart but the Lord observes and takes notice and tells us that Vzziah his bea rt was lifted up We have need then to study our own spirit and commune with ●ur own hearts search and try and judge our selves and intreat the Lord who is the great searcher of hearts that he would search us and try us and if there be any way of wickednesse in us that he would discover it to us and lead us in the way everlasting 2. Vse 2 This also may be for our humdiation that we should be so prone to turn the goodnesse of God into wantonnesse that we should be worst to God when God is best to us that we know not naturally either how to be full or to be empty what unknown abominations lye in our hearts undiscerned a man cannot imagin or will beleeve that such a world of pride lies in his spirit till the time of temptation draw it out Elisha weeps over Hazael ● K●ng 8.12 Hazael wonders that the man of God should weep Why weeps my Lord Elisha answers Because I know the evil that thou wilt do to the children of Israel their strong holds wilt thou set on fire and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword and wilt dash their children and rip up their Women with childe Hazael wonders at this Prophecie cries out in detestation But what is thy servant a dog that he should do this great thing ver 13. but these unhumane butcheries which would not enter into his head when he was low yet both entred into his huart and were executed by his hand when God had made him strong and had lifted him up This may be for exhortation Vse 3 both 1. To long for that condition in Heaven wherein we shall be lift up without pride wherein we shall be most high and most humble far above all corruptions and all temptations The Angels that are on high Heb. 1.14 are willing to be ministring spirits for the good of the Saints that are below and the Saints that are now perfect in Heaven high and lifted up throw themselves and their crowns down at the foot of the Lambe Rev. 4.10 2. In the mean time till we enter into this rest let every one desire to see the plague of his own heart 1 King 8 38. 2 Cor. 11.3 1 Cor. 7.29 and be jealous over himself with a godly jealousie lest us Satan beguiled Eve through his subtilty should also corrupt any of your mindes The time is short and therefore they that rejoyce are to be as though they rejoyced not and they that use this world as not abusing it for the fashion of this world passeth away The Psalmist observes Psal 49.20 that man being in honour continues not Let no man presume on his own strength and let not him that girds on his armour be as he that puts it off The conflict without is very great but the sharpest combate is with the pride of our own hearts within if we conquer this enemy Satan and all our actversaries can never conquer us if this prevail and enter in Prov. 25.28 we shall be as a City without barrs and without gates Now we come to the misery of this abuse Fourth part his heart was lifted up to what end or advantage alas that swelling proved fatall and the issue dreadfull lifted up to his own destruction The word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lifted up to corrupt or destroy To destroy or corrupt whom Ad corrumpeadum To corrupt himself to destroy others to hazard the ruin of the state yet this sin of his was personall and personall therefore was the ruin God spared the people and suffers him to fall in his own transgression his heart was lifted up to his own destruction Hence observe When that strength is abused to pride Observ 4 which God affordeth to his service that strength proveth to be the door of weaknesse that lifting up and sudden rise is but the forerunner of greater ruin Prov. 16.18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty minds before a fall Such a confraction follows a heart thus lifted up as shivers it all in pieces and makes it to be a despised broken vessel That pride will have a fall is from common experience grown proverbiall Those that are of the highest stature and climb the highest their fall their downfall is the greatest * Ecquit latreni scalant ascendent● invidet unde post decrsum est praecipitandus T. Cartw. in Prov. 16.18 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 No man envies a malefactour going up the ladder though exalted above all the standers by because his climbing up is to be cut off in a moment See this in Haman Nebuchadnezzar Belshazzar weighed in the balance and found too light Herod adored as a god immediatly eaten up of worms Nay the Saints brought low when thus lifted up David when his mountain seems to stand strong then God hides his face