Thslmmutabiliey of Go Do u. r j Secondly,iftbouwouldetl: ~ave thy refolution ~= 1 Jtrong .to breake through all.tmpedtments la- Get ftrsnsde• • U , · - ' fire bour·to get vehement defires,..to over•top all o- • ther ; .that · wbatf~ever·comes,fet they. mayover...- ballancc them. Buthow fhall I come to get fucha:<lefire ? Jtuefl~ There is-, no"· way in ·the world, but this : ·, A n[w.-, ·Labour to be humbled for thy linnes, to ·get a-· ~~w todg;.t b k h .1:'. h r. h ucong C11res. ro en cart 1or·t em ; 10t t en a·man comes to prize Grace exceeding·muc-h , -and· worldly thingsas nothing.._For tliis is a fure rule; whm· · 'thou -fee/eft thy Jinne.r·,tD lye-be11vie upfm thee, then· •U'.thf thing! in the -world wilt be exceeding,light .o · Therefore. 1abour to· ·know the- bitterne-ife·of -fsnne ; . it-· is that whic-h fets an edge upon all' .fpirituall defires: without this, a man dot-h but 'cheapen the Kingdbme of·Heaverr 5 . bee dotb: as the peopledid with R·tbohoam ;, theyexpofrLt.i' lated with him about·tlreirferving.him: fowe-e .. Ahumble'man– doe capitulate with the. Lord"' (~;S- it wert>)and' takesHencn , ··fbnd upon tearmes w:ith him· .., UfttiH wee.:are 1 ~fc~~;s;: con-, 'humbled; and then wee are ·readie to take He~- . • -:ven upon any ·condition. -Till a m·an bee thus . humbled, ltis deftres arc ·r~mifie, and weake, and· flaggie-deftres; th'ey rayfe up great ·buildings . upon no foondation ; the foundation is weake.-- . afld cr.azie, and fO' ,fhe buildingcomes··downee _ ~ And he.nce it is , .that men put- theirhtmd1 to ther· . _Plough·, 11nd lHke /;acke againe-. - A' Scholler wilP < fe_rve the Lt~Nl (~ if'hee:may ~l~tve _ -em~nencie ·in ) :. . gtfts, and,outward ·excellencte; or·fome honour- • ;:intbe .Re-t'h; when as otberw.ife., his ddire~0~~~; Ji .. ......... _ .... vs ........ r :s::,._._ . . '
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