That no flesh should glory. * 1.1
That is, that no man should boast himself of his wisdome, his power, or his honour. He saith not, no man, but no flesh; that he may shew us what little cause we have to be proud or
Gods glory in mans happiness, with the freeness of his grace in electing us together with many Arminian objections answered / by Francis Taylor ...
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- Gods glory in mans happiness, with the freeness of his grace in electing us together with many Arminian objections answered / by Francis Taylor ...
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- Taylor, Francis, 1590-1656.
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to boast, that are but flesh. Mortall we are and corruptible; our worser part is here put for the whole man, that we may not be lifted up. Thus when we with the Peacock spread our feathers, the Apostle gives us just cause to look down to our black feet. The wisest are but flesh as well as the foolishest of the sons of men: the greatest as well as the weakest: the noblest as well as the basest. Thus the Prophet puls down that confidence which the Jewes put in the horses of Egypt; Their horses are flesh and not spirit. * 1.2 And so the Apostle warns us by the weakness of our nature, not to glory in our selves.
Another Argument to keep us low the Apostle takes from Gods greatness opposed to our weakness in the last words.
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* 1.1
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* 1.2
Isa. 31.3.