- JPitbout Humiliation no mercy. . Againe,though tb~t ~ffirmat_ivc part men~ionedl 1s proper to tha~ hum!ltauon athve, the promtfes of Interd! in Mercy bewgmade to them that humble themfelves, and not to all that are hmnbled: there being many that are much humbled, who yet ob~ taine not Mercy; yet I joine bot a together in thi~ lirfi part chidly; becaufe.as they-are conjoined in their working, fo they mufi necetfarily be in the explication of them; for we cannot come dill:inet· ly to know and finde out what it is 'I'o humble our {elves (which is the thing I principally aymeat) without knowing what it is to he hum6ltd, the one beginning where the other ends : the one being a preparative to the other. That thereforewee may fee how farre the one and the other goes, :and how they are difiinguifued,we will ihut both up in ·this firll: dottrine. Now inha~dlingthis Dottrinewe will doe two things. Firft, ihew that men nmll: behumbled and hum– ble themfelves,ere they can come to have interell: in thefe promifes. We will thew whit it is to humble a mans felfe and to be humbled. For the firfi, this place alone is fufficient ground. G o n wo!Jld not "have put in fuch a condition in v,aine, ifit might have beene fpared in any, but be. fides this ground wee have the pradife of all the mafier builders, who made it their firll: worke (as here it is the firll: condition) to humble men, · that they might .bee brought to humble them- : felves : And to omit all other inftances, wee . . . F z . have• _: ;;ea .. I . I I l Zk ·'
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=