T7Pithout HHmiliation nomercy. 6!} ' . Of the order of it, as it is here placed the firft of - 2. all the reJt. ~or the firfi, it is tm~-inde.ed, that t~e:-LolJl.m~ght .. br~ng men home to h1m Wlthouuh1s hum1hauoa. He could doe as he did at the firft creation, fay no more but let there !Jelight, and there would be light, and that without any of this thunder: he might fay, Iet there be· grace, and there would be grace ; he could .come in the fiill voyCJ! withoutrenting the · , roGkes, and fay no more but, oeen yee everlafling doores,liftup yoHr headsyeegAtes, and theywould be open ; but as though he might have brought the.' Childrenofl[rael out of lEgypt into the Land of can~tan, withot~t -leading them -through the wilderneife' yet his good pleafure was thereby . rather .t, hHmble them ·And prove .· them .; fo it is here. And the ·nafons of .this neceffity may bee . drawne from the relation, and refpeCi: which this humiliation hath both to the other condi- ' tions that follow, and all that is promifed here ·, in the text : unto which wee will _fit the reafons that foliow. As firfl:, without this men will not feeke out I. for and come unto · C · H a. 1 s -r :· they wiU not · (eeke hu face, that is, his Perfon ,: the Law is cur · Schoole-Mafier to bringus to C .H ll . 1 s T., by humbling us : men would not come in to him t:nIeffe they were driven ; men would not feeke .him unleffe they themfeives were firfl: loft ; men would not r~ceive him unleife they were fir a humbled ;the p~ore receive the GD.fieO; the poore in fpirit. · ' ,, F 3 It ' ' -
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