WithoUt Humili4tion no mercy. away, unle!fe men were sumbled~ for ifwaen God did affiiet men, he lbould refiore them againc with. out this humiliation, men would·thinkethat Go ·n wronged them before, <!nd now did but right them, but when God hath humbled them fo farre, that they acknowledge his lufl:ice,in affi~Cting them, and . their owne deferc tobeeutterly defiroyed, and c.on~ felle that ic is his mere Mercy they were not confu– med , and hemble themfelves under his mighty hand, and now ifthe Iudgement bee takenoff, and :his wrath blowne over , rhon they give him·the praife of his Mercy and Judgements. . 1 Thus you fee why of necefficy it is required: Now let us fee the reafon of the order of ir, . why it . ·is required tnus in the firft place : It is the firll: con- , clition there : there is fome thing in the order)and to · bee faid by way ofreafon for it,'and the reafon in g.e– nerall is, becaufe nothing is acceptable to God, till the heart bee humbled : You may pray, which is 75 l ·another condition, and you may heare,&c. but alt you doe is but lofi labour, unle!fe it come from a broken heart. Forfirft.thatisalonea- fitfacrificeforGod~with- (. , · out which aCt: no {acrifice is accepted : This you, Rea • 1 -· . may fee Pftlm. )I. 16, I7· Thou diftreft n~tflcrifice, e/fi Iw1uld give il 1hee; th1u delighteft not in lmrnt of. {trings, The Jttcrifi(es ofGtJd are abroken f}irit, -anda contrite htart,oh God>thou wilt not·de/}ife. Davidknew ~ that till his heart was broken,all his good deeds and all holy duties would have beene iri vaine ~ ,. and it is - as ifDavidfuould have faid, Lord,beforc I was thus ' ' humbledand·myheart thus broken {as inthebegin~ ... ning_~--
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