2. Do you say you are willing and Christ is not? That is your intolerable pride so to think and speak It is usual •ith many dejected Souls, that complain of their own unworthiness, and vileness, and sins, that loath and abhor themselves for their sins, in the great work of humiliation, that yet have this insufferable pride remaining in them, that they are willing but Christ is not. Indeed! have you such good thoughts of your self, and such low, and mean, and hard thoughts of Christ? Is it not Pride enough in you, to have better thoughts of your self, than of other of your fellow Christians, but must you have higher thoughts of your self, than of your Saviour: or do ⟨p. 32⟩you say you are worse than others, and yet in this advance your self above God and Jesus Christ? It may be you never perceived so much pride to be at the bottom […] such conceptions and expressions; that you are willing, but God is not willing, but Christ is not willing. Oh proud Creature▪ proud Sinner! proud Mourner! is not thi• to have too high and proud thoughts of your self, to think you are more willing to receive good than God is to give it? To be good, than God is to make you so? Is it possible that a Sinner that by nature is a bitter Enemy to Goodness and Holiness, should be more willing to be made good and holy, than God that is by nature good and holy, and a Lover of it, should be to make men so? Oh, fall upon your Knee•, and let those Tears that you shed in lamenting your sad Condition, that God is not willing to be y•••, when you are willing to be his, be better spent in weeping for the Pride of your Heart, in thinking you are willing to receive Grace & Christ, and he not willing to bestow himself and it upon you.
2. Do you say you are willing and Christ is not? That is your intollerable pride so to think and speak It is usual •ith many dejected Souls, that complain of their own unworthiness, and vileness, and sins, that loath and abhor themselves for their sins, in the great work of humiliation, that yet have this insufferable pride remaining in them, that they are willing but Christ is not. Indeed! have you such good thoughts of your self, and such low, and mean, and hard thoughts of Christ? Is it not Pride enough in you, to have better thoughts of your self, than of other of your fellow Christians, but must you have higher thoughts of your self, than of your Saviour: or do ⟨p. 32⟩you say you are worse than others, and yet in this advance your self above God and Jesus Christ? It may be you never perceived so much pride to be at the bottom 〈…〉 such conceptions and expressions; that you are willing, but God is not willing, but Christ is not willing. Oh proud Creature▪ proud Sinner! proud Mourner! is not thi• to have too high and proud thoughts of your self, to think you are more willing to receive good than God is to give it? To be good, than God is to make you so? Is it possible that a Sinner that by nature is a bitter Enemy to Goodness and Holiness, should be more willing to be made good and holy, than God that is by nature good and holy, and a Lover of it, should be to make men so? Oh, fall upon your Knee•, and let those Tears that you shed in lamenting your sad Condition, that God is not willing to be y•••, when you are willing to be his, be better spent in weeping for the Pride of your Heart, in thinking you are willing to receive Grace & Christ, and he not willing to bestow himself and it upon you.
