Without Httmiliation no mercy. 79 . did before; as the Prodigall came to him[elfe,rhat i ;, ; entered int'>aferious confideration ofhis eftate; be~ I forea man thought ~imfelfe in a~oodefiare ; little \ · imagined bee was mthe r.all if bttterneffi; but th:s workt lhewes him ~is poverty,-and rhat hee is alto– gether naked, and that hee bathnothing to fufraine him, as the Pr•odigall fa wnee had not, no worch at all inhim. : .~, And this firffworke of Humiliation is w:rought by the Law andthecurfethereof; whichfayesin his hearing, Ct~rftd flee he that abides not in all things to doe them. . · · By theLaw I fay, whiCh is the rule of righteou.f ?ie/Je, whereofall P.articularrules atebranch~s ; and by the thr~atningsthereof; which are"all branches · of that great curfe. ,Theonebeingas th~ lightning to difcoverfi~ne, the other like the thunder~b~lt that ftrikes thehe~rt with-feare of Gods Iudgeynents :. the .one is Eke the Inditemtnt., . the other as the Suitence of'. · ·rhe Iudge. I put both thcfetogether, betanfeboth goe ·to humble aman: The Law is like the Task~ ·mal1:€rs-o(Egypt, that commanded the ·Ifraelit;.es to 1 db<! th"worke) b~t gave th.em no ll:raw; fo tne'~a.w, tells us, this aAd this is to beedone, andbinds us ~b' ·d·oe it,but gives us no ll:rength, and fo thereby dif~ covers our fiofulneffe and unahl.lfty ,to ~nygQod: and thenas ther-ask-mafiers did bearethem that fal: led oftheir tale, fo c~:nesthe curfeand frrikes.them dead, that continue not in aU1hings to doe tht.Law; and theie ~woput together.worke this Legall humAiiati~; ·· . o~n: netther by the_Law ismeant only rhofe tepwords! , 'poken inHereb, btittogether with the explanation, ~--~--------· ~· --~· -- ~· -- -· ---·-· --· ____ o__ f: ---
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