First, The more a man does see the Glory of God, the more Humble he will be, and Deny himself, even in Spiritual things. Ye may read how it was with Job, in the 9. chapter of Job: ye do not read in all that book, that Job does any where in one chapter, so much Deny himself, as concerning his own Righteousness (which he stood much upon to his friends) as in this 9th chapter, verse the 15. Whom (speaking of God) though I were righteous, yet I would not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. Verse the 16. If I had called, and he had answered me, yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. Then at the 20. verse. If I Justify my self, mine own mouth shall condemn me: ⟨p. 59⟩if I say I am perfect it shall also prove me perverse. Verse the 21. Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life. Then at the 30. verse. If I wash my self with snow water, and make my hands never so clean: yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. But whence did all this Self-Denial in Spiritual things proceed now? If you look into the former part of the chapter, ye shall see, that Job had a great prospect of the glory of God. I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? verse the 2. If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him. God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: verse the 4. Then verse the 5. Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. Which commandeth the Sun, and it riseth not: and sealeth up the Stars. Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the Sea. Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the South. Which doth great things past finding out, yea, and wonders without number. And now having this prospect of the Greatness, and Glory of the Lord, he Denies his own Righteousness, Denies himself in Spiritual things. And ye know how it was with the Prophet Isaiah, in the 6. chapter, and the 5. verse. Then said I, Woe is me, for I am undone: because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. Woe is me, I am undone, a man of unclean lips. But stay, O thou blessed Prophet, thou art a great, and hast been a great Preacher, a Gospel Preacher: yea, thou art a Prophet.
First, The more a man does see the Glory of God, the more Humble he will be, and Deny himself, even in Spiritual things. Ye may reade how it was with Job, in the 9. chapter of Job: ye do not reade in all that book, that Job does any where in one chapter, so much Deny himself, as concerning his own Righteousness (which he stood much upon to his friends) as in this 9th chapter, verse the 15. Whom (speaking of God) though I were righteous, yet I would not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge. Verse the 16. If I had called, and he had answered me, yet would I not beleeve that he had hearkened unto my voice. Then at the 20. verse. If I Justifie my self, mine own mouth shall condemn me: ⟨p. 59⟩if I say I am perfect it shall also prove me perverse. Verse the 21. Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would dispise my life. Then at the 30. verse. If I wash my self with snow water, and make my hands never so clean: yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. But whence did all this Self-Denial in Spiritual things proceed now? If you look into the former part of the chapter, ye shall see, that Job had a great prospect of the glory of God. I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God? verse the 2. If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him. God is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: verse the 4. Then verse the 5. Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger. Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble. Which commandeth the Sun, and it riseth not: and sealeth up the Stars. Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the Sea. Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Plejades, and the chambers of the South. Which doth great things past finding out, yea, and wonders without number. And now having this prospect of the Greatness, and Glory of the Lord, he Denies his own Righteousness, Denies himself in Spiritual things. And ye know how it was with the Prophet Isaiah, in the 6. chapter, and the 5. verse. Then said I, Wo is me, for I am undone: because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwel in the midst of a people of unclean lips. Wo is me, I am undone, a man of unclean lips. But stay, O thou blessed Prophet, thou art a great, and hast been a great Preacher, a Gospel Preacher: yea, thou art a Prophet.
