' ~ . '. \.i . 6,8 VP'ithDut Humiliation no mercy. I I have all the three Perfons feales to this me– thod. This was G o I> the Fathers method in the firfi Sermon that ever was preached (which him– felfe alfopreached) as apatterne for all Minifiers to follow. And when hee would draw t.Addm and Eve in to feeke thepromife of mercy, he firH ~xpoftulares thematter with them, tohumble rhem for theii' fin: and then lets fall the proniife of the t7r!tfi1U. . Andfecondly, I E s-us CH- RI s T the fecond P~rfon in his firll: Sermons in Preaching the Go- .fpdl, as in Luke4· 7. 1hewes his approbation of this. merhod·in that qe makes this his lirll: fubject: of his.firfi Sermon, :as appeares by the text hee takes. to preach the ,Gofp~ll, but to whom ~· to thofe that are firll: humbleand humbled. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, hec~tufo bebathAnointedme to _preltch the qo[peU to fuch tU are poore 4nd hroken in . heart.· And the fame 01:der, the Holy Gbofi the third Perfon was foretold by Chrifi, that when hewas come, hee would obferve in working upon mens hetrts by the minill:eryof theApoftles, &c. John I 6\ 8. Hejhall~I11Vince.the Wlrldoffin: for humili– ation, that is his fir(l worke; thenof rightcou[ntjfe, for jollification :JalUy if Iudgcment; that is,_ that f.1nctification -which perfons juflified are to have wr.ougptinthem; We come now to the explicati– on andreafons of this point which fhaUbe. - / To thew the aec~ffity ofthishumiliation ·to the other that folLow. , Of
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