[ 1090] Glory, to be given unto God onely.
PHaroah ascribes much to Ioseph, but Ioseph quickly rids it off from himselfe, and sends it away to the right owner.* 1.1 So Daniel to Nebuchadnezzar, He bles∣seth God for the knowledge he hath, and so does not deny it,* 1.2 but he returns the praise to him that gave it.* 1.3 David had his Non nobis Domine. And it is writ∣then of St. Bernard, that having done many wonders in France, he did thus put off all glory from himself; I have learned in the Scriptures (saith he) that signs are done,* 1.4 vel per fictos, vel per perfectos, Ego nec ••••••tionis, nec perfectionis mihi conscius sum, Let them have a good opinion of me, but give all the praise to God: Thus it is the grea∣test and the highest part of divine Wisdom, to give God the glory of all our actions; It is his own, why should he not have it? As when Thales Milesius had imparted to some other Philosopher an admirable discourse of Heaven, he freed his Schol∣lar from all reward but this; That whensoever he divulged this secret, Tibi non ascripseris, sed me ejus repertorem praedicaveris; The Invention it selfe, he was wil∣ling to communicate to others,* 1.5 but the honour of the Invention, he would keep to himselfe, Ubi mea legis, me agnosce. We have received all our Wisdome, strength, honour, and wealth from God, he requires no more but that we acknowledge the Author,* 1.6 Ubi meis uteris, me agnosce, Take thou the comfort of them, give me the glo∣ry. To do this, summa ratio docet, & Christianos decet; The whole world is a great book of Gods mercy, every benefit is a lesson, and wheresoever we read it, let us be surethat he may have the glory.