We dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves, with fome that commend themselves: But they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wife. p. 231 A LARGER DISCOURSE, by way of Com- mentary, on that remarkable Part of the Gofpel-history; in which Jefus is repre- SER- SER MON I. Preached Feb. 3, 1771. St. MATTH. xiii. 51, 52. Jefus faith unto them, Have ye understood all these things? They fay unto him, Yea, Lord. Then faid he unto them, Therefore every fcribe which is inftructed unto the kingdom of heaven, is like unto a man that is an houfeholder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old. F there be any difficulty in these words, It it will be removed by confidering the manners of that time, in which Jefus lived, and the ideas of those perfons, to whom he addreffed himself. |