Use 2

USE II.

This may teach us not to place too much upon men. It is a fault too frequent, and of dangerous consequence, for us to tarry at instruments, and either on the one hand to adore them, or on the other to undervalue them. It is true, the gifts, graces, industry, prudence, which God bestows upon them are to be acknowledged: but to have any man's person in admiration, to the contempt of others, as if this must needs be the converting man, and not the other, is to dishonour God, and give away his incommunicable glory to a creature: nor can we do such men a greater displeasure: Paul is as much dissatisfied at them, who said they were for Paul, as those that were for Apollos; because they put too much respect upon him.