Yee take too much] Too much state, too much power, too much honour, too much holinesse, in appropriating those administrations to your selves, wherein all the people might partake with you, and make as neere approaches to God, and with as much acceptance, as you doe, and therefore they may offer incense, and present their own oblations, and offer their own sacrifices as well as you; which may be probably collected from the prayer of Moses against them, Respect not thou their offerings, which, though it may be first meant of the incense mentioned in the following Chapter, because they began their usurpation with that, yet it is like they meant to goe on with the like intrusion into the Priestly office in other services appropriate unto it. This presumption was not ended with Korah and his company, we see the practise of it in the present ages among the people of severall sects, taking upon them the preaching of the Word, and ministration of the Sacraments, and the exercise of Ecclesiasticall discipline, which belongeth not to them. holy every one] They flatter the people, while they slander their Governours, to stirre them up to sedition against them; and their flattery ascribeth that praise to all, which is to be found but in very few, the praise of holinesse; perhaps because God required they should be so, Exodus 19. vers. 5, 6. and they promised they would be so, because of his especiall presence among them.