A03605:65
The souls humiliationThe soules humiliation
London: printed by I. Legat for Andrew Crooke, 1637
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE SOULS HUMILIATION. › Doctrine 2: 2. Doctrine.THE SOVLES HVMILIATION. › Doctrine 2: 2. Doctrine.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fourthly, and lastly, if this be not enough,1 he is not only deprived of all spiritual good, and dead in sin, and stands under the sentence of condemnation, though this were enough to lay out hearts low before the Lord. You see the sinner in the pit; But will you see him sinking into the bottom? I am loath to speak the worst: Nay, I durst not have thought it, had not the Lord Christ spoken it in his Word. Therefore see what he saith,2 Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a Devil? Who was that? It was Judas. Why, what did he? What, a dead man, and a damned man, and a devil too: What will become of such a poor forlorn creature? It is said of Judas, that the Devil put it into his heart to betray Christ, out of a covetous humour to get money, and the Devil entered into Judas. Thus the devil puts it into his mind,3 and suggested it into his heart, to devise a way how to compass his end: nay, the Devil entered into Judas, not by a corporal possession; but by a spiritual kind of rule, which the devil did exercise over Judas, that is, when the devils counsel, and advise took place with Judas to betray his Master: this is not Judas his condition alone, but it is the condition of all men by nature. That, look as it said of the Apostles, They were inspired with the Spirit of God; 4and as it is said of all sound Christians. They are led ⟨p. 36⟩by the Spirit of God: So, on the contrary, the wicked are led by,5 and with the spirit of the devil, He rules in the hearts of the children of disobedience: The devil casts wicked thoughts into their hearts, and carries them into the commission of those evils, which formerly he had suggested: The devil rules in them; he speaks by their tongues, and works by their hands, and thinks, and desires by their minds, and walks by their feet;6 The devil shall cast some of you in prison, saith Saint John. All men are naturally under the power of Satan, and therefore Saint Paul was sent to preach the Gospel that he might deliver them from the power of Satan to God.