Pauls Converfion. , 107 therefore labour to fee the neceffitie of this dutie of humiliation, or elfe you will not doe all things for Chrift, and labour to get the degrees of it, and withall get the degrees of grace, and that will in- creafe fpirituall forrow ; and degrees of forrow , makes degrees of joy : a man or woman that ne- ver forrowes,or never had the degrees of forrow, never truely rejoyced in Chrift ; for as the Spirit workes grace, and grace workes true humiliation, fo true humiliation workes joy ; therefore you fee it is neceffary : againe there will be no Mitering for Chrift, till there bee rejoycing in Chrift; a man will not either doe any thing , i or fuller any thing for that thing, that he cannot delightn, therefore labour to be humbled. Now to helpe you in this worke, I will lay downe fume meanes,by which you may come un- to this humiliation of fpirit. The firtt meanes to get this humiliation, is to get the Iudgement re6tified, becaufe men cannot fee finne, nor know it till then; and men will not be humble, fo long as they remaine ignorant,but when the judgement is ratified, then hee knowes finne to be the greateft evill. Againe, a man will not forrow, till he have a fit objeâ for forrow, as a blind man cannot fee any objeé,fo a natural man is a blind man, and hee mutt have new eye fight, before hee can fee finne to forrow for it, as finne ; and this is the rectifying of the judgement ; but when the judgement is rectified, then it will for- row for finne, and that in there tefpeds. F f 2 Firtt, 1. Meows.
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