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This is somewhat more then con∣founding, or making ashamed. He doth it to bring them to desperation in themselves, to make them give over working and studying, for so the word imports. And what can wise men do lesse, and great and noble, but cast away all their naturall and carnall studies and labours and priviledges, and de∣spaire of attaining heaven by them, when they see foolish, weak and mean persons attain to Gods favour with∣out them? Thus the word used else∣where
by the Apostle, Do we their make void the Law, or idle, through faith? God forbid; that is, we do not take away the operation of the Law, when we preach faith in Christ, but leave it a work still fit for it. So in the text, by chusing base men, God makes idle the labours and prerogatives of great men, even in their own account, which when they perceive, they either give over all seeking for heaven, or see them∣selves forced to seek it another way. But who are they whom God intends to confound by calling these contem∣ptible people?
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