·: 66 JVithout Humiliation no mere)·. , ~----J---------------------------~~-----· \ , unleffe·men,doe humblethemfelves, they can have i no intereft in the[e promifes– Secondly,Affirma'~ivdy; That ifthey dohua,– ble them[elves, thenGodwill be merd~ul to;hem, andforgive\ th~ir finhes. + . ' ! I a . FDr the handling of the.firfi, I raife t'his Do. l Do ·4· chine out of the words :·ThAt "without EJu-miiiation no man flu!! obtaine mercie .· ·W.ee fee th~t God fuf– pend'eth Mercy upon ic here, as without wh-ich no : Mercie can bee expetted i which therefore mufi · needs bee ·thought a matter of great confequence, ; and d1e more lar.gely to be infifi.ed .upon. I e:~pre:lfe .thedottrine inamorel'ar~e andgene– rail word Hnmili4tion, which contairies in ir,as well humiliAtiorJpaflive, or being.hurnbled; as hurni./it~ti- . on aciive (as for more cleere diftinttion fake I call them) whareby we h;m~bte our ftlves: which .is.thc maine thing i.nten'ded intheT~xt, exp.Hcitlyarid di:– rettly, which alfo'in the profecmionof this poi-nt ' I mainly intend; ye~ I !hut up bqth ts>gether, in this– negative part of this difcourfc ·: becau[e they are, th-ough in thetl}fdve.s qi~inet ~ yet a,lwaies conj oi- · ned in their worl<.iog; and rne latter do~h alwaies· prefuppofe the former' andd.Oth neceffa1rily imply· it here : for no man did ever come tohumble him-. felfe, that ,was not firft humbled._ :Thi\nrgativ~ part of excluding men from. nrercy with'Qnt ~b'othl · the~, being ~lfo alike common to both, it being a • U~euue,· that no man ev~r dig attainemercy, that. !I was nG~ firil: humbled , :md.that .dicit not humble 1 L: g::,~;;~:· So as i~ thiS negative partthey agA~af~~
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