Pauls ConTerfon. 205 and account Chrift more then all things: now this a man will not doe, till bee be humbled. But you will fay, What mutt I forfake father Objete. and mother, and wife for Chrift , or elfe I cannot have him r this is a hard thing, the workeis too great, there is not fure fuch neede of Chrift or grace,or at the leaft, Chrift will not impofe fuch a burthen upon mee. I anfwer, yea; you mutt forfake all thefe things: e'lii,Jm ïfyou will not,you (hall never have him; this was the fault of the fecond ground, there was both a receiving, and a rejoycing in Chrift, and this was a good propertie, but yet there was not joy e- noughibecaufe there was not humiliation enough, the plough had not gone deepe enough,and there- fore it was that they continued not, fome things he would doe , but not all things for Chrift, but when the heart is humbled,that is, when the plow bath gone deepe enough in humbling a man ; then bee will and not till then, make Chrift his chiefeft joy. Fourthly , to receive the Gofpel , is to truft in Chrift wholly, to depend upon him both for grace and falvation , and every thing elfe that is good : he will labour to know the length,and the height,the depth, and the breadth of the riches of Chria, bee will Tooke Hill unto the precioufnefle of Chrift, becaufe he will not have his mind ex- ercifed about vaineand foolifh things, and this no man will doe,till 'ache humbled ; no man will fee his need till he be humbled, hee feares nothing, he F f thinker 4
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