Come & welcome to Jesus Christ, or, A plain and profitable discourse upon the…

Secondly, Some that are coming to Jesus Christ, are too much affected with their own graces, and too little taken with Christs person; wherefore God, to take them off from doting upon their own Jewels, and that they might look more to the person; undertaking, and merits of his Son, plunges them into the ditch by Temptations. And this I take to be the meaning of Job. If I wash me, said he, with snow-water, and make my self never so clean, yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me, Job 9. 30, 31. Job had been before a little too much Tampering with ⟨p. 235⟩his own graces, and setting his excellencies a little too high (as these Texts make manifest, Job 33. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. chap. 34. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. chap. 35. 2, 3. chap. 38. 1, 2. chap. 40. 1, 2, 3, 4. chap. 42. 3, 4, 5, 6.) But by that the Temptation was ended, you find him better taught.

Secondly, Some that are coming to Jesus Christ, are too much affected with their own graces, and too little taken with Christs person; wherefore God, to take them off from doteing upon their own Jewels, and that they might look more to the person; undertaking, and merits of his Son, plunges them into the ditch by Temptations. And this I take to be the meaning of Job. If I wash me, said he, with snow-water, and make my self never so clean, yet wilt thou plung me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me, Job 9. 30, 31. Job had been before a little too much Tampering with ⟨p. 235⟩his own graces, and setting his excellencies a little too high (as these Texts make manifest, Job 33. 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. chap. 34. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. chap. 35. 2, 3. chap. 38. 1, 2. chap. 40. 1, 2, 3, 4. chap. 42. 3, 4, 5, 6.) But by that the Temptation was ended, you find him better taught.