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…

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.

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, roul thy self into his bosome, 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 bee incouraged 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.

3 Know, that if thou beest not at present so deeply humbled and ⟨p. 165⟩broken for thy sins, as thou wouldest be, yet thou mayest be more humbled after thy believing in Christ. For a Christians sorrow and humiliation for sin and misery is not all at first, but oftentimes it is more and greater after a closing with Jesus Christ, and a sensible feeling of Gods love, than it was before. Yea the le•s humiliation before Faith in Jesus Christ, the more many times follows after. And that is true humiliation, and Evangelical Repentance, which followeth after Faith.