1. By being humbly contented, that seeing the Lord has absolutely Promised, to work and do all for the Soul he intends to save, even when it can do nothing for it self, and that he has taken the work into his own hands, so that it is his promise, offer, office and honour to do all; that therefore you lie down, not sluggishly, but humbly at the feet of God, and contented to have him to be your God, and for ever to be disposed of in any thing by God, if he will fulfil his covenant in you; contented to part with any sin, if he will rend it from you; contented to know any truth, if he will reveal it to you; contented to do any duty, if he will enable you; contented to shine bright with all his glorious graces, if he will create and maintain them in you; contented to bear any evil, if he will lay his hand under your head, and thereunto strengthen you; and so seeing the Lord promised to undertake the work for some, put out the work, and put over your Soul, to him, that he would fulfil the good that his covenant promiseth in your self. Now when you do thus, which, no question, you and many a Soul doth, many times reflect upon this act, and see if you cannot or may not find your self by ⟨p. 34⟩it under the condition of some conditional promise; and if you do, then are you bound to believe all God's promises are and will be Yea and Amen unto you. Now that you do so by this act, it self speaks plainly: For how many conditional promises are made to the meek? Blessed are the meek, Mat. 5; and to the humble, whom God will raise up? For this is not saving Meekness, to be quietly contented to be or to do, or to bear any thing that the Lord will have me from mine own strength and feeling; but to be, to do, or to bear any thing that the Lord will […] me, if the Lord enable me. Many a stout heart would gladly have Christ; but if he cannot have him in his own terms, viz, Christ and his lusts, Christ and the world too, or by his own strength and power; he will have none of him, but desperately casts him away, and saith, what shall I look after him any more? I cannot pray, I cannot believe, I cannot break this vile and unruly will, this stony adamant heart: thus the pride of a man's heart works. Now he that is truly meekened and humbled, he is contented gladly to have God his God, and Christ his Redeemer, and that upon Jesus Christ, his own terms. First, on his own covenant:
1. By being humbly contented, that seeing the Lord has absolutely Promised, to work and do all for the Soul he intends to save, even when it can do nothing for it self, and that he has taken the work into his own hands, so that it is his promise, offer, office and honour to do all; that therefore you lie down, not sluggishly, but humbly at the feet of God, and contented to have him to be your God, and for ever to be disposed of in any thing by God, if he will fulfil his covenant in you; contented to part with any sin, if he will rend it from you; contented to know any truth, if he will reveal it to you; contented to do any duty, if he will enable you; contented to shine bright with all his glorious graces, if he will create and maintain them in you; contented to bear any evil, if he will lay his hand under your head, and thereunto strengthen you; and so seeing the Lord promised to undertake the work for some, put out the work, and put over your Soul, to him, that he would fulfil the good that his covenant promiseth in your self. Now when you do thus, which, no question, you and many a Soul doth, many times reflect upon this act, and see if you cannot or may not find your self by ⟨p. 34⟩it under the condition of some conditional promise; and if you do, then are you bound to believe all God's promises are and will be Yea and Amen unto you. Now that you do so by this act, it self speaks plainly: For how many conditional promises are made to the meek? Blessed are the meek, Mat. 5; and to the humble, whom God will raise up? For this is not saving Meekness, to be quietly contented to be or to do, or to bear any thing that the Lord will have me from mine own strength and feeling; but to be, to do, or to bear any thing that the Lord will 〈…〉 me, if the Lord enable me. Many a stout heart would gladly have Christ; but if he cannot have him in his own terms, viz, Christ and his lusts, Christ and the world too, or by his own strength and power; he will have none of him, but desperately casts him away, and saith, what shall I look after him any more? I cannot pray, I cannot believe, I cannot break this vile and unruly will, this stony adamant heart: thus the pride of a man's heart works. Now he that is truly meekned and humbled, he is contented gladly to have God his God, and Christ his Redeemer, and that upon Jesus Christ, his own terms. First, on his own covenant:
