Christ inviting sinners to come to him for rest

6. Upon this follows likewise That faith is an humbling grace, it is that that must needs humble the soul where it is, for indeed it is the greatest self denial in the world, for a creature to come to be willing to rely upon free grace, for the soul to be so emptied of it self, as to acknowledge, there is no worthiness no good at all in it self and yet it is content to live eternally upon mere alms, and to give God the glory of all. Is there any thing more hard to any of you, then to live to be beggars all your days, to be beholding to others, so as to live upon mere alms and nothing else all the days of your lives? Now for the ⟨p. 138⟩creature to be so emptied of it self, as to live upon mere alms to all eternity, upon nothing but mere free grace, and upon a principle of life without our selves, this is a mighty work of emptying of our selves, and of self denial. And therefore in Rom. 10.3. Its spoken of the Jews; For they being ignorant of Gods righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God. This plainly shows, that the bringing the heart to rest upon the righteousness that is of God by faith (for that is meant here) requires a submission of the heart, a laying down the heart, and a humbling of the heart; and indeed, this is the very ground, why the Lord doth so humble the spirits of men and women when he brings them to Christ, because that the Lord knows, that the very act, the coming to Christ, is an act of the greatest self denial in the world, because the heart must be emptied of it self in that that is so much against the pride of mans heart, to live eternally upon mere free grace and nothing else. For there is nothing that man doth more desire, then to have somewhat, some stock of himself to live upon. And indeed herein man comes to be more humble then Adam in innocency could be, for Adam had a stock to live upon in his own hand, to live upon in himself, not but God was the principle of it, but then God gave it him to live upon, the stock of Grace he had in his own hand.

6. Upon this follows likewise That faith is an humbling grace, it is that that must needs humble the soul where it is, for indeed it is the greatest self denial in the world, for a creature to come to be willing to rely upon free grace, for the soul to be so emptied of it self, as to acknowledg, there is no worthiness no good at al in it self and yet it is content to live eternally upon meere almes, and to give God the glory of al. Is there any thing more hard to any of you, then to live to be beggers al your daies, to be beholding to others, so as to live upon meer almes and nothing else al the dayes of your lives? Now for the