An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

This I have been the larger upon, because it maketh the more for the comfort of the godly to know, that even such as Paul had so much corruption and evil within them, as well as they, that did not the Lord use several means to humble them, were he not always filing of their rust, cleansing out their spots, they would quickly become very loath some and unclean.

This I have been the larger upon, because it maketh the more for the comfort of the godly to know, that even such as Paul had so much corruption and evil within them, as well as they, that did not the Lord use several means to humble them, were he not alwayes filing of their rust, cleansing out their spots, they would quickly become very loath some and unclean.

Now in the pursuing of this Doctrine, because I have already opened the nature of this self-trusting; I shall only aggravate the evil of it, that because the godly are so prone to it, they may the more bewail it, and watch against it. And certainly the people of God do not think and meditate upon the evil of this sin enough, you hear them complaining often of other sins, they lie heavy upon their hearts, but very little of this whereas this is like sweet poison, it destroyeth, and you feel it not. And

Now in the pursuing of this Doctrine, because I have already opened the nature of this self-trusting; I shall only aggravate the evil of it, that because the godly are so prone to it, they may the more bewail it, and watch against it. And certainly the people of God doe not thinke and meditate upon the evil of this sinne enough, you heare them complaining often of other sinnes, they lie heavy upon their hearts, but very little of this whereas this is like sweet poison, it destroyeth, and you feele it not. And

First, It must needs be a sin highly displeasing God, Because he doth so severely chastise his own people to prevent this sin. The sharper physic is given,