··- - '·. 84- ,. : I 4 1 3 : . . . P:VithetJt fiumiliation nomercy_. . . A-fence of thel<:>Ve of Godana Chrifi~ joyned·:. with afence Qfmans owne Hnlcindneffe umo God; whereby wee looke u-pon fins _as injuries done ~6 i . .God, and an unkindneffe lhewne therein. And now let us fee the difference betwixt thefe two works Gr parts ofhumillation,thar wemay fur• '"· ther underfiand' what it is to humb/e,ourfd11es. : . And-firft, they differ in-thematter they are·con– verfant about .;,in ~hac firfi, aman is humbledpro– perly ,but-for the p·unilhmenr,aman iritieed is hum– bled for finne, yet principally as it hath rela.tio_n~o . p:mifhmem; it is guilt works on him she !s not hum~ bled fodin,as itis'contrary-to .God,and· hiS:~olines, but as-contr:ary to himfdfe and his own good-: and I thus we are not humbled, till we,come to love Goil, and to have a lig~r difcovering theh9lirteffe and . purity of his nature, which one that is favingly · humbled bath wrought in him. ' . They differ in-~heir grounds .and ·pri~cipl~s whence they arife. . : : · ',· · :_ · · · The firfi arifeth but from felfe-lov.e, andis but a worke of nature; though thus farreawdrkeofGod to·airre up fdfe~lbve, 'py the lenceof·mifery andro awaken it j but fo as any tinreaforiable crean]re if.in d~nger, ufeth to bee fenfible.of it : and what won– der then ·iS it' for aman, when hee begins to have tGmefenceofli'·dland, dea~h,l~tintohis ·confdence, to be wounded and apprehcnfiveof it !·,but t 1 he O· :ther arifeth fronf .the love of God kindled in the he~rt .by hope?£ ·graf~ ~nd mercy. " .- rl . . . 'theyd1ffer tn ·~he mfiru·mentxll ·caufes thatwork : ,:them ; theone ts wrought by the fpirit ofboodage, : · . · · . . b~L~
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