The crown & glory of Christianity, or, Holiness, the only way to happiness discovered…The crovvn & glory of Christianity, or, Holiness, the only way to happiness discovered…

Sixthly, Persons of real holiness are cordially affected §6and afflicted,¹ grieved and troubled about their own vileness and unholiness; you may see this in holy Job, chap. 40. 3, 4, 5. Then Job answered the Lord and said, Behold, I am vile, what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my ⟨p. 124⟩mouth. Once have I spoken, but I will not answer; yea twice, but I will proceed no further. So holy Agur, Prov. 30.2, 3. Surely I am more brutish then any man, and have not ^*the understanding of a man. I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. Though all men are brutish, yet holy men are most sensible of their brutishness, and most affected and afflicted with it; wicked men are more brutish then the beasts,³ yet they see it not, they bewail it not; but holy Agur both sees his brutishness and bewails it. Holy Agur looking upon that rare knowledge, that depth of wisdom, and those admirable excellencies that Adam was endued with in his integrity and innocency, confesses himself to be but brutish, to be as much below what Adam once was, as a brute is below a man.⁴ So holy David cries not Perii, I am undone, I shall perish, but peccavi, I have sinned, I have done foolishly. And so for his being envious at the prosperity of the foolish,⁵ how doth he befool and be-beast himself! Psalm 73.22. So foolish was I and ignorant, I was as a beast before thee. The Hebrew word Behemoth, ⁶