The Second Pointe.
SEcondly, * 1.1 I am to consider before what Per∣sons, and in what things our Lord Christ encreased, in the manner aforesaide.
First, the Euangelist S. Luke sayeth, [ 1] that he encreased before God, and before men, teaching vs by his example to auoyde two vicious ex∣treames. The one is, of zealous indiscrete Per∣sons, who presume to encrease before God only, making no accoumpt of men, nor of their edi∣fication, or disedification, or scandall not remem∣bring that he that loueth God, ought likewise to loue his neighbour: and that he so ought to seeke his owne proffit, that it be not to the hurt of others, * 1.2 attending (as S. Paul sayeth) to the edification of all. Another extreame is of Hi∣pocrites, such as faine zeale, who lay all their care in encreasing before men, doing whatsoeuer may helpe them to encrease in Opinion of San∣ctitye before them, without attending to the