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Ninthly,¹ where Natural Strength only enables, there the soul is not more humble, after it hath gone through difficulties, but it is puffed up, as having passed through hard things, and done some great matter; but where Faith is the principle, the soul knows that it was not from any thing in its self; but if it had been left to its self, it should have basely forsaken the cause of God, it should have dishonoured God and its holy profession; and therefore it rejoices not in its self, but in that power from on high, that came in and assisted it. I live, saith Saint Paul, but not I, but Christ in me, ²so I was able to go through such and such straights, saith a believing soul; No, not I, but the virtue and power of Christ in me carried me through. Of a truth, saith Bernard, To glory in God alone, cannot be but from God alone.

Ninthly,¹ where Naturall Strength onely enables, there the soule is not more humble, after it hath gone through difficulties, but it is puffed up, as having passed through hard things, and done some great matter; but where Faith is the principle, the soule knowes that it was not from any thing in its selfe; but if it had beene left to its selfe, it should have basely forsaken the cause of God, it should have dishonoured God and its holy profession; and therefore it rejoyces not in its selfe, but in that power from on high, that came in and assisted it. I live, saith Saint Paul, but not I, but Christ in me, ²so I was able to goe through such and such straights, saith a beleeving soule; No, not I, but the vertue and power of Christ in me carried me through. Of a truth, saith Bernard, To glory in God alone, cannot be but from God alone.

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2. 2Revera gloriari in Solo Deo non nisi à Solo Deo est. Bern. Serm. in Cant. 13.