Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

3 A third Let and Impediment, is a fear and jealousy that they are not sufficiently humbled under the sense of their sins; and the rather, because they do not find their hearts so broken, as the hearts of others have been. For the removal of this, I desire such to take notice of these things.

3 A third Let and Impediment, is a fear and jealousie that they are not sufficiently humbled under the sense of their sins; and the rather, because they do not finde their hearts so broken, as the hearts of others have been. For the removal of this, I desire such to take notice of these things.

1 That a man may be sufficiently humbled and broken for his sins, though not so deeply as others; for true humiliation admits of degrees, and all Christians have it not in a like measure. And therefore far be it from any to conclude that they are not sufficiently humbled, because they have not attained to such a measure and degree thereof, as some others have.

2 Though▪ thou art not so deeply humbled as some others have been, yet if thou art so sensible of thy sins, and of thy misery thereby, that thou art truly sensible of the need and necessity thou hast of Jesus Christ, it is sufficient, and thou mayest with boldness go unto Jesus Christ, roll thy self into his bosom, and cast thy self into his arms. Though thou never knewest what belongs to the bitter throws, and stinging pangs which others feel in their new birth, yet that work being done, for which deep humiliation is required (namely, to be sensible of the need of Christ, and thereupon to long after him) thou mayest be encouraged to go unto Jesus Christ, and to rest upon him, as for the pardon of thy sins here, so for eternal life and salvation hereafter.