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What humility
is.
I.
a
b
lm
3.34:
2.
Efay
17.15.
Matth.
s
t,zg.
Obada.3.
s
Peo;.
4.
3.
The
elle
@s
of
humility
in
generan.
Gen.lß.
z.
Pfal.
r
3
I.
z.
Pfal.zz.
6.
Ruth.z,
so.
Gen.z3.7.8.
Ephefaáns
Chap.
4.
VER
b.
2.
W
hat
the grounds of
it are.
3.
Make
application
of
it
to
our
felves.
Humility
is a
grace
of
the
Spirit, wrought
in
the
heart , which doth
caufe
a
man
inwardly
and
outwardly
to
Thew
Iowlinetl'e
toward God
and man. Here
are
foure things to touch
'upon.
The
Efficient; it
is
the Holy Ghoft that doth
work it
in our hearts,
and
work our
hearts
to
it: Such a
fpirit
of
pride
doth by
nature
beare
fway in our
hearts, that
we can no skill
of
humility untill we
be taught
and
moulded thereunto by Gods Spirit
:
as
pride is
an
eminent fort
from Satan,
who
firft
fuggefled, and
as
it were
breathed
it into
the
hearts
of
our firft parents:
fo is
humility
in fpeciall mantic'.
from Gods
Spirit.
Whence
was
Chrift
fuch
a
paragon
of
humility, but hence,
that
he
had the Spirit without
meafuree
There
is
the
fubjeét, the heart; for fo we
are
taught when
humility
is
made
a
property
of
the heart,
as a
contrite
and
humble
heart.
So
was
Chrift
lowly
in
heart. As pride
like a
malter Pharify doth
affeét
the belt
roome
in
man, and festes
it felfe in
the heart,
as
every where we
heare
of
the
pride
of
the heart
:
The
pride
of
thy
heart hath
deceived
thee
:
fo
humility
is
not
of
the right kind, nor hath
its
right
place
,
unleffe it be
lodged
in
the heart.
But
letthe
hid
man
of
the
)earl
bee
deckt with
the
incorruptible
grace
of
a
meek
and
quiet
fpirit.
We
have
the
work
or
effeEt
of
humility, which
is
the
(hewing
forth
of
lowlineffe
inwardly
in
the
mind , and
outwardly
in
our words
and deeds.
As light, where
it
is, cannot but
Thine ,
nor
fire choofe
but
burne
:
fo where humility is, it will
make
a
man frame
himfelfe
thereto
within and without.,
In
his
mind
to
take up
lowly
thoughts
and delires:
without, to acquaint himfelfe with words
and
all courfes
which
fuit
with the lowlinetfe
of
his
mind. A
bladder when
it
is full
of
wind
doth
fwell fo
big,that
we cannot gripe
it in
ones
hand,
but
when
the wind
is
preffed
or
let our, it
is a
(mall
matter,
and
is
eauly
contai-
ned
in
a
little
compaffc:
fo
pride
doth
fo puffe up a
man
that
he
fwel-
leth big
at heart, looketh big,
fpeaketh
big,
and
is
hardly
fatisfied
with
any
honour;
But when
humility commeth, that
preffeth
our
that
wind
with which the heart was fwollen,
and
then
a
man fetteth much
leflè
by
himfelfe, and
is
lowly
in
his
words
and lookes,
and can make him-
felfe
equal' with thofe
of
low
degree.
What
lowlineffe
within
did it
Phew
in
Abraham,
who
doth
efleem
himfelfe but dull
and
afhesein
David
who
was as
a
weaned
child
in his
thoughts touching
himfelfee
Yea in
Chrift,
who
faith
of
himfelfe,
that
he
was
a !Yoffie
and
no
man?
What'
lowly
fpeech and gefture
did
it
bring forth
in
Ruth, who
ravifhed
at
Boaz
his kindnes
toward her,
fell on
her
face and
bowed
ro
the
ground,
fayi
®g,
How
have
I
found favour
in
thine
eyes
that
thou fhoulde
f
know me
who
am a
flrangeri
yea
in
LA braham,
who
though
be were
as
a
Prince
of
gad
among the
Hittites,
yet
having
to
treat with them doth
humbly!
bow before them
and
intreat theme
The
fourth thing
is
the perlons towards whom
it is
exercifed
:
ñrtt
God,
then
man. As it hath to doe with
both,
fo
doth
it
teach
men to
carry.