Pauls Converfion. 201 that there is no way to efcape hell , but by going unto Chrift ; that nothing will f atisfie for fin, but the blood of Chrift, nothing fo excellent as grace and holineffe is : it will tell him, that he that will bee Chrifts Difciple, muff doe there two things. Firft,he mutt deny himfelfe, he muff renounce all truft and confidence in any thing for falvation F without Chrift: and he muff deny all abilitie to. worke that which is good without the Spirir. Se- condly, he mutt take up the croffe, that is, he muff suffer what God will have him,either in his name, or body,or goods : this is the last meafure requi- fite, without which thou wilt not receive Chrift; and thus much for this fart queftion. Is it fo, that humiliation is fo neceffary , to the yf`, right receiving of Chrift and the Gofpell, this fhould teach us to confider our condition and e- ftate, whether we have this condition in us or no: let every man by this try his condition , whether he bath received Chrift or no, and this muff not be outwardly but inwardly, not a forrow in thew, but in fubftance ; and thinke not the t; a little fob- bing and fighing will ferve the turne, a little ring. ing of the hands, a few teares, and a little hanging dowse of the head; but it mutt be a deepe humália- tion, fuch a humiliation that proceeds from the fpirit : in Romanes 8. 15. you have not received the Rem.s.i s. fpirit againe to feare, but the Jiritof Adoption : you once had a flavifh feare, a feare contrary unto this true feare, which was the fpirit of bondage ; but you (hall not have it againe: but that humiliation Ee 3 fhall
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