I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

Secondly, True humiliation, it is no enemy, but a real friend unto spiritual joy, to our rejoicing in God. The more a man is humbled for sin committed, the more he will rejoice in God, and rejoice that he can grieve for Sin: He grieves, and rejoiceth that he can grieve for sin. therefore humiliation (by our Saviour Christ) is made an effect of the comforter. I will send the comforter, and he shall convince the world of sin, because there is comfort always goes along with true humiliation, it is not an enemy but a friend to our spiritual rejoicing; but discouragement is an enemy to spiritual joy; A man that is discouraged, is grieved, and he is sad upon his grief, and if ye tell him that he must rejoice in God, and call upon him to rejoice in God, O! no, saith he, it is not for me to rejoice, I am a man of another disposition, joy doth not belong to me, or to one in my condition: But now when a man is truly humbled, the more he is humbled for Sin, the more he can rejoice in God, but the more a man is discouraged, the less he rejoiceth in God.

Secondly, True humiliation, it is no enemy, but a real friend unto spiritual joy, to our rejoyceing in God. The more a man is humbled for sin committed, the more he wil rejoyce in God, and rejoyce that he can grieve for Sin: He grieves, and rejoyceth that he can grieve for sin. therefore humiliation (by our Savior Christ) is made an effect of the comforter. I wil send the comforter, and he shal convince the world of sin, because there is comfort alwaies goes along with true humiliation, it is not an enemy but a friend to our spiritual rejoycing; but discouragement is an enemy to spiritual joy; A man that is discouraged, is grieved, and he is sad upon his grief, and if ye tel him that he must rejoyce in God, and cal upon him to rejoyce in God, O! no, saith he, it is not for me to rejoyce, I am a man of another disposition, joy doth not belong to me, or to one in my condition: But now when a man is truly humbled, the more he is humbled for Sin, the more he can rejoyce in God, but the more a man is discouraged, the less he rejoyceth in God.

Thirdly, The more a man is humbled, truly humbled for Sin, the more he is found in Duty; the more a man is discouraged, the more his hands are weakened to Duty: As it is with the Water, if the Water do continue in its true stream, it doth not over-flow