Without HHmiliation nomercy. that ·luft, but caoft fin and beare it out wellenoogh, let thy forrow have beene never.fogteat, and now they arepall af1d gone, and were not right; let men thc~efore examine themfelves by •the effects , for men are deceivedon bo.thftdes: ·andthen, ' ·. t Vfe is for exhortation to fiirre up to-the du– ..tie: This exhortation.! direct to two forts .of men .; firll: to tkofe who arealready truly humbled, .and fecohdly to·ftrangers to it. · Fir·fi ·you that arealready h1s1mbled and.haveob•. ,tained theaffurance ofche forgiveneffeof your fins, you mull: bee humbled more,for if the Lord fufpend .his promifeat this,thenthe dutie is to ·bedonedaily: · .When God re.quires a diuieof Santtification (and ·his promifes are made onely to fuch ·). ther~ can .bee none cxcufe·, there may bee a let in prepara– tive humiliation ·; a man may bee foaUgwed'.{-two . mtuhforrow : but not in this which is adutie of fan– :d:ification : and know this, that all degrees ofgrace arife from the degrees of this true Humiliation: which I make good to you thus ; Faith and_Love 'are the great radicall graces, all elfe are but bran~ . ches fpringiogoutof the.m. Nowtheyare.ftrcng. them:-d by this humiliation , and graces the more theygrow there is anaddition frill made to them; :as there is anaddition made to our humiliation. . Firft for Faith , know that themore firongly a ma·n layc:s holdon CaR 1sT andprizethhim, : the more heegoes on to apprehend his finne, and is· . emptied of himfelfe, ; and though a man tool(e CH :a IaT truly at his firfi cooverfion, yet there are ' degrees .of prizing kim ; when a husband takes a H 3 wife 1'01 1 1 '
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=