The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

It is said of Ahab, that he humbled himself, put on sackcloth, and went softly. And this was the fruit and effect of his Legal-Faith, whereby he believed the truth, and certainty of Gods Judgements denounced against him, and his house. The men of Nineveh, when Jonah preached that sad Sermon. Jonah 3.4.— Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be destroyed — It is said — They believed God; That is, The truth of that message, which Jonah brought from God. And it follows, as an effect of this Faith — They humbled themselves, and proclaimed a fast, and put on Sack-cloth, and sate in ashes, from the King upon the Throne, to the meanest of them.

It is said of Ahab, that he humbled himself, put on sackcloath, and went softly. And this was the fruit and effect of his Legal-Faith, whereby hee beleeved the truth, and certainty of Gods Judgements denounced against him, and his house. The men of Nineveh, when Jonah preached that sad Sermon. Jonah 3.4.— Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall bee destroyed — It is said — They beleeved God; That is, The truth of that message, which Jonah brought from God. And it follows, as an effect of this Faith — They humbled themselves, and proclaimed a fast, and put on Sack-cloath, and sate in ashes, from the King upon the Throne, to the meanest of them.

And my Brethren, Faith hath a great influence into the work of self-humbling.

1 It takes up self-humbling Considerations.