10 &\· P'T7itbout Humiliation no mer~y. --~~--------------------~------ haft availe not tothy falvation ; becau(e theymake\ thee not agood man; yea all thefe good things and .the good fits thou haft had, .wiahelpeforward thy · coademnation : becaufe thou haft prophaned the· · Other ex truth in thy heart, and haft •not put fuell to thefe • · ~~r~~~re fparkes, which God inmer-cy-did put in: that thou Sermons iliouldefi: fuffer fuch Talents as thefe to lyehid in a , ~~~n. ~: Napkin, will hee not fay, thou art_an unprofitable · ~ · · fervant· ~ . I A fecond thing thafis to beadded to the fight of your nns to ·humble you, is to know that mifery and vanity that is in your felves ; we fee by experi· · ence that men will gralint that they are great tin!. ners, but what is the reafon, that yet notwithftand. ing they ftandout ~ '· ' '" ' They doe not know their owne mifery and va. nity, and·though we have preached to men againe ·. - and againe their mifery-; yet they are not fiirred: butwhendeathcomes, then they are humbJ~d;and why, bot becaufe rhen they f€e what God is, and what themfelves are; death !hewes them the vani. ty.of the Creature : fo that the way to bee hum· bled, is to know how unable a man is to be happy within his ownc compalfe.. And to thisendconfider: · FirA, the greamelfe of God and his po~er, and the terrours of rhe Almighty,that he is that God in · whofe hands is thy life and wayes, and all: and • confider, that unlefle thou feriod]y lay thy fins to heart; this·God is thy enemy,and him with whom for ~ver thou hall to doe. 2 , Confider what a weake creature thou art j thi~ke · ..- --~ .Wl!h.
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