.Reputation of Gifts and[pirtual to how flat wouldfi thou fall down ? how wouldtt thou fear and tremble ? and cry out asthe Prophet Ifa. 6..5, [ Wo u me , for I am undone , becaufe I am a man,of unclean lips , and dwell in the no;dil of a peop'e of unclean lips : for mine eyes have feen the King the Lord of hogs ] Or as Job 4o. 4. [Behold I am vile, 1:1; hat fhall Ianfivtr thee I I kill lay my hand upon my mouth. And Chap. 42. 5, 6. [I have heardof thee by the hearing ofthe ear : but nowmine eye feeth thee : wherefore I abhorr my felf and repent in dui and ages] One glimpfe ofGods Majelly would take down thy felf-exalting thoughts, and humble thee with a witnefs. 4. Confider the examples of the holieft of Gods Servants. The exampleof yoband Ifaiah I have now mentioned. Moles himfelfdid think himfelf unmeet to fpeak in Gods nieffage, Exod. 4. 10. He laid unto the Lord, lam not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor fince thou hail fpoken to thy fervant : but I am of flowfpeech and ofa flow tongue.] And v. i 3. He faid 0, my Lord, fend 1 pray thee by the hand ofhimwhom thouwilt fend] When God fent yer. i. 6. he faid, Ab Lord God, behold I cannot jpeak: for I am a child] And Paul cries out [who is fufficient for thefo things ! z Cora. i6.] So that it hath been the courfeof the molt Seraphical Prophets, and holy Apofiles to have low thoughts of their own abilities for duty : Andyet have you enough to be Proud of? 5. And confider that the Nature of the holy employment that you are upon, one would think, fhould be enough to humble you. It is a confeffingof fin, unworthinefs and guilt, and will you be Proud of this ? It is a confeffing that you deferve everlafiing torment ; And will you be Proudof fuch a confefiionas this ? The Lord be merciful to us, and fave us from this unreafonable vice ; who would think that it fhould be thus with a man in his wits ? To confefs that he deferveth Hell-fire; and to be Proud of that Confeffion ! your Petitions are all humbling, if they be according to the word ; you are beggars for your lives, for pa ,don of many and hainous fins, and fhould come as with the rope about your necks : you beg for deliver,%nce from eternal mifery : and fhouldyou be proud offuch requeits fhould beggars be I i 2 Proud, 243
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