Excee ng S. n t h'nefS e f sm. ib the world arehumbled for fin aright. There are many people t hat are troubled for fin, and will cryout of their fin, are firuken with many -eares and terrors for fin, and yet never hum bled for fin aright, and it is clear from that you have heard outof this Point. Why ? becaufi, that Humiliation for fin that is aright, it muf: needs be anhumiliation for it as i - is the grea tell: evil ofall; and it is the greatefl evil-as it is ;igainfl Godhimfelf. Now the humiliation of inoft in the world it is not fomuch for this, be- caufe tin is fo muchagainft God, becaufe it op pofethGod, ftrikes at God, and wrongs God fo much : This is not the thing that doth ufually take the beans of men and women in their trouble for fin ; but for the fear ofthewrath of God, and of Hell, and an accufing Confcience that cloth flafh the very fire of hell in their faces; this troubles them. _ And well were it for many that they were but troubled fo far true, this trouble is that which God dothmany times biefs, and there is great oreof it, but th is not all; no nor thechief troubleof the Soul forfin There fears and horrors (1 fay) are not thechief; the chief of all is the humiliation or the foul for fin, as it is agtinfl God; then is the heart humbled aright for fin, when it appre hend how by fin the foul hash been againit the infinite glorious Fríf Being of all things. Ail other humiliations in theworld is not fulicienr without this. For, i it is not deep enough, there canbe no hu- miliation deep enough, except the foul behum- bled
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