A Golden Chain

The fourth thing in true humiliation, is an holy desperation:⁴ which is, when a man is wholly out of all hope ever to attain salvation by any strength or goodness of his own: speaking and thinking more vilely of himself then any other can do; and heartily acknowledging himself to have deserved not one only, but even ten thousand damnations in hell fire with the devil and his angels. This was in Paul, when he said of himself that he was the ^lchief of all sinners. This was in Daniel, when in the name of the people of Israel he prayed and said, ^mO Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, and to us open shame, as appeareth this day, &c. The same was in the prodigal child, ⁿwho said, Father, I have sinned against heaven and against thee, and I am no more worthy to be called thy son. Lastly, it was in Ezra, ^owho said, O my God I am confounded, and ashamed to lift up mine eyes unto thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heaven.

The fourth thing in true humiliation, is an holy desperation:⁴ which is, when a man is wholly out of all hope euer to attaine saluation by any strength or goodnesse of his owne: speaking and thinking more vily of himselfe then any other can doe; and heartily acknowledging himselfe to haue deserued not one onely, but euen tenne thousand damnations in hell fire with the deuill and his angels. This was in Paul, when he said of himselfe that he was the