216 Gen. ;. u. Ioh.s.t5. Pauls Con rerfion. dealt with LAdanm , what haft thou done , ball thou eaten, &c? thus he dealt with Peter, Iohn aí,15. &c. Lovell thou mee, feed,feed, feed, &e. the re, membrance of particular times wrought a gene- ral! change in them, and mightily humbled them: therefore, if you would be humbled , apply par- ticular failings , and exclude none, and God will not exclude thee : you know that which will take a great thine out of a garment, will furely take out a leirer : even fo feare not, but if God bath given thee a heart to fee fome great finne, and the affurance of the pardon of that finne, hee will forgive thee all firmes : thus much for the third meanes. 4.11e eager. The fourth meanes, to get humiliation, is this, we muff labour to bring things unto a propinqui- ty, that is, let us looke upon finne pail, as prefenr, and fo neere at hand : for this is our folly, wee looke upon finne, a great way off , and that is the reafon, that finne is fo little regarded of us, be- caufe wecannot,as we might,fee how odious it is: the Philofopher faith, that things a great way off, are as if they were not, they doe not hurt us, and this is the caufe why men are not humbled : ex- perience proves this , you know death is the terri- bleft thing in the world, but yet becaufe we looke upon it a farre off: therefore it is, that it Both not affright us now : to helpe you to bring things to a propinquity, that you may be humbled, you muft obferve thefe two rules. T. Firft , I fay , you mutt looke upon things that are
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