~-~8_l lfi tbout Humiliation 1~9 mercy. --r l fecond, unto which no promife is made, and which may bc:e found inan unregenerate man; the fecond, which is a fruit of SanCtification, which is meant here , and unto which the promife is made: Thefe goe both together in the Godly,; and hee that hath the fecond never wants the firfi: in· fome meafure more or leffe, though many have the firlf: that have not the fccond. . . Now the firfi: is nothing el[e but a fence of finne, and Gods wrath for it; expreffed to us in thofe for· mer exa111~Ies, by being prickt in the heartJ it beinga ~gofthe heart and fpirir. Vntowhich is joyned trembling feare,with con. fide ring and comming to amans felfe, as wee have itin the parable. . . And this paffive Legal HHmiliationft.a.ndsin thefe particulars. · A fenfiileneffe of finne : beforeaman is as one that is in adead fleep ; what is done to him he feeles not~ nor what is faid ne heares nor, is fenfible ofno· thing: But this is the awakening of aman tobefen– fible offinne; fo as now hee is wounded , now hee is fmitten with it, now hee feeles it. So the Go41tr as the foundation ofthe prifonwas iliaken , fo was his heart alfo, and had an earth-quake within, as well as one without; and his awalc:ing out of fleepe was a refemblance ofhis awakened heart. This Humiliation makes aman fearefull ofhis e– fiate~ whereas before he was bold: and others that .ue not humbled goe on !Joldly andareptmifht, as it is fayd ·ofthe foole in the Proverbs. . It makes a man confider his eftate,which he never . . d.i9
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