@SE R .M.1. Toy and love" mortifie lulls. Iiùmidiation. before Iu. ti( cation. the Baptifi,they prele into the Kingdome of Heaven, .i. with violence,as if God feemes to hold the Kingdom of Heaven in His hand, that unleflè you pull it. and extort it from Him, as it were, you flail never have it Now will any man doe thus till he be humbled r Ir is impoffible he íhould. When a man is brought into feare of his life, and is like to dye, the feare of Joffe of naturall life will make him works any thing with violence, much more then when a man fèes eternall death, that he (hall die for ever, will he take the Kingdome of Heaven with violence, that is, hee will not performe duties in a flight manner, as if God were beholden to him, not with that laxity in his judgement of the truth, as hee conceives, nor with that coldneflc in the d,Lie. Thofe that will be faved, mull take falvation by force, which a man will ne- ver doe till he be humbled. There is much profef- fion, and many kindes of taking C x n r s T in the world, but the right taking is, when a man will be at this cofl, to part with all,to deny himfelfe pettedly, and every way, and take up his croffe, and every croffe, whe.a his lulls are throughly mortified, and this cannot be tì1 he be humbled :For mark,nothing mortifies but joy and love, that doth propel iy and immediately mortifie; for no roan will part with his lulls, till he finde CH R 1ST fweeter than they, till then he will never part with them in good earneff; now C x r t I S T will never be (weer, till we have found the bittcrneffe of fin, till G o D bath fo prefl it on mens confciences, that they feels the weight and burthen of it. And fo much for the reafons of it. Now
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