of Faith, 23.5: of Grace: The Lord's great Plat being to exalt his Grace, and to make it glorious, and to let ail the Vtrfels of Mel'cy clearly fee, that whatever Favour is fhowu tl erii, is of his mere good Will: Hence, will have this proud, murmuring, quarrelling Spirit laid low and humbled, ere he , fhow and reveal Mercy; becaufe, till humbled, and lying at the Lord's Feet, with its .end on its Mouth,. heartily According to whatever the Lord (hall therewith do,and to his Manner of \. jo king, acknowledging the Lord the Pot r, and that whatever Mercy if thall receive, fnall be merely of his Grace, and in noways ever to challenge the fame by Defert : Till, I fay, it be thus with the Soul, it is not creditable for the Lord to difcover his Love, and con- trary to his great Defign, the exalting and manifefting of the Freedom of his Grace ; and thus the Lord works ordinarily with all his Elea whom he laves, and thus humbles them either by prevenririg Grace, preventing this Pride and riling of Heart, and .Dula- tisfaaion of his Ways, or by actual humbl- ing Grace, .quieting the Heart with the Will of God in cafe of Ragings of Pride, and this is properly Llìzmiliat ion : For a Man's Hein may be broken, .rent with, and un- der Sin, fo as he may feel in his Soul the very Terrors of Hell, as Cain and yudc4, ?nd yet like `a Devil in Hell, rage' againft9 and
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