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{AI Transcription} Solomon selt who comstand before envy 27 prov 4 Christ offin that sends us to
virlen & goodness it self this was ye devils sin tho envied this happiness of man
having lost his own god epate & this sin appeared not long after ye cain &
how this way wrought against Christ he self ye Evangelists make plain. The
phorisyes him[?] wes over carping as Christ gracious words & glorious works and at
hast delivered him out often iny to be crucified 15 mork 10 soe that envy proou
red ye fall of man & ye death of Christ
away forments a man & is rottenness to his bons because of others Excellency
14 Nrov 30. h is abslected that any is qreat to him, much more if above him
r ener is especially against those that we think are above us as contempt is
against Infacions 31 Ezeck 9. When Daniel was made cheif of ye prinous &
presidents then ye rest of ye grovous envied him & sought occasion to ywine
him 6 denreet 3. 4. So here they envied paul his envinets & success his
abilities & honor & hear though these preached christ it was with an a ime to dimi
nish paul famile f to sate yourselves this is afemfell evill ad yet such is ye pow
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ye of this carripti m that it will make a mans gifts & ye exaccse of him in ye choisest
dutyty of dirence wastry substruient to his bose lifts for some even preached christ
but of envy & strife
Elise could say that he not only speak words of truth but with an upright heart 33 Job
some may speak that which is erroneous up a true heat that is, they think that
to be a sreatly which they utter when his an arror yet some have offended that
which is exconions with a better & more honest heart that some hishuv
urded ye truley. But your are others that Ipenk ye fordth with a fuls heart & hear ye apos
the tobs notice of sevent teaches of that sect who though they preached the
truth yet not with a upright heart much like sother who soutiug speak greate
truths but out of madion & envy that chsly he might rasy a maity a grist se trutly
professors of it now ye gfords why this is a great well & to be condemned as
it is hereby the ropest is fordives ceasons
1 R. which erillws Jesus table to go 3 Tiles 3. Faithful to ye person in
whom ihis 14 yor 70 that argues a very care that house if not wholy mange
Merat 112 14 10 whow as he groond at till he bnashed his twth was it a
gres of compassion at ye mismyes of Ethes noe it was a grief of envy at
the perspurty of otus as is does frant ye words immediately foregoing the hore
of ye rughters shall be enabled with horry, but its most abominable in such
as make profession of ye faith or that publish the truths who should rejoice in ye wel
I are regulation good success one of aother as if it were their own 1 Cor 2 26
If om member be honored all ye members rejoice with i
R2 Consider ye root & fowentes of ye lust & ye are pride of hent & excession salf
lome for mery if ye sadness of ye beat for ye good mse in anether or that ysdow by
wnther in which this your anyour person makes account that yo much honours or proyse is taken
from him as vgiean to a ratheres, have Elvab take, that in David which was his ome
sendness to vertune his life for ye 1sam 17 28 he weyed Davds valyu&

survive of gods Israel Which he had no heat to himself
It speaans alsoe from prfam & rebeltions infidelity for either we do not believe
that another hath his gusts repetation success gruen of god (for if we did it
would nullify ravs) or if we between yei veagnce him of god then it is rebecti
our infidelity to greed against gods goodness 20 moth 15 look pn to that 3 Joh 26 27
John & schply labour to maniss your master against Christ thy couplain that he
baptized & ye which especially troubled him all more followed [ Gd ye aggra
vate this fact or weyy heinous in that Christ had got much of his broditely selves
mean he to behom thou barest witness wherin they seen to faxt him of
but baskfullness that heins soe much beholding to John he should thus go about
to overtop him but mind how John takens to or ctcquanct praon, &
pesmadders him to ye homourn of Christ an argument of great humility in ohe &
freedom from this just of cuy, he was yet moved with these temptations from his
disciples thus pricking him forward, & hear is one try all when we can stand
out in trppation but mind his acsree 27 ye forme of his argumt y this
I what soever grae any mw hl for his calling & whatsoever success he
his in ye exacution of his calling he given him by god then it is hll
mation to be aneyours that christ pro mareses as well ass, & got iny
manistry then I has whats ovter he hath that way goe gives it to the, whophen
yae make it less & that smmtler mensure that I bate y alsoe by the same