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A96034 A glasse and salve for professors held to them. By William Voile minister of the Gospel. Voile, William. 1668 (1668) Wing V749A; ESTC R186085 101,652 114

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Phil. 2. 1. to 10. Is humility thy duty and shall all these such as these be humble and so humble and wilt thou keep thy whole stock of Pride God forbid 3. God is as it were at cost with men he chastiseth and punisheth them to humble them Lam. 3. 19 20. and our low estate at this time calls for it and not for pride and stateliness 4. The benefit of humility is great 1. With the lowly is wisdom Prov. 11. 2. 2. It is better to be of a humble spirit with the lowly then to divide the spoil with the proud Prov. 16. 19. 3. God will look and have respect to the humble Psal 138. 6. Es 66. 2. 4. The high and holy One who dwelleth in the high and holy place he dwels also with him who is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the heart of the contrite one Isa 57. 15. 5. God giveth grace to the humble Jam. 4. 6. 1 Pet. 5. 5. 6. Whoso humbleth himself under the mighty hand of God aright shall be exalted Jam. 4. 10. 1 Pet. 5. 5 6. 7. Before honour goes humility Prov. 15. 33. 8. God will hear the prayers of the humble Psal 10. 17. 9. He will save them Job 22. 29. 10. By humility and the fear of the Lord is Riches and Honour and Life Prov. 22. 4. 11. Humble and meek persons are blessed Mat. 5. 3 5. John 13. 17. 12. Ye may do well to consider how favourably and bountifully God hath dealt with men and women of old in relation to their humility and humiliation as with the Israelites 1 Sam. 7. 6. to 13. Hezekiah 2 Chr. 32. 26. M●nasseh chap. 33. 12 13. Josiah chap. 34. 27 28. Isaiah chap. 6. 5. c. and the Prodigal Son Luke 15. 17 18 19. to 24. On the contrary part concerning pride and proud persons 1. It is not good 1 Cor. 5. 6. 2. It is prohibited Rom. 11. 18 20. 1 Cor. 4. 6. 3. We ought not to be proud of the good things which we have because we have received them all of God 1 Cor. 4. 7. 4 Pride is reproved Mat. 23. 8 10. 5. Wise Agur prays against it Prov. 30. 7 8 9. 6. The soul of a proud man is not upright Hab. 2. 4. 7. The evils of it are many 1. It engenders strife Prov. 13. 10. and stubbornness and very many sins 2. If thou be proud thou art an abomination to the LORD Prov. 10. 5. 3. Thou canst not walk with God for he that desires to walk with him must humble himself that he may walk with him Mic. 6. 8. Consider the Margent neither will God walk with thee but know thee afar of as one whom he abhorreth Psal 138. 6. 4. God resisteth the proud Jam. 4. 6. 5. Brings punishment on them if ever so many of them be joyned together Prov. 16. 5. 6. Brings them down 2 Sam. 22. 28. Psal 18. 27. Mark 9. 35. and 7. Disappoints them of their imaginations desires purposes and hopes Luke 1. 51. The pride of their hearts shall deceive them as it did the Edomites Obad. ver 3. 8. When pride cometh then cometh shame Prov. 11. 2. 9. It goeth before a fall even before destruction Pr. 18. 12. and 15. 25. as it did before the fall of Nebuchadnezzar Dan. 4. 37. and Belshazzar Dan. 5. 23. c. 10. Can a man hope that God will hear the prayers which he makes with a proud heart May not the voice of his proud heart be louder than the voice of his Eloquent Tongue 11. Whether much pride and much carnal jollity in the heart of an afflicted person be not always joyned with the contempt or despising of the Lords chastening Prov. 3. 11. if it be not what is it to despise his chastening 12. Whether God may not justly answer such a one that he is merry and pleasant enough already c. Lastly to set contraries near one another The LORD hath respect to the lowly but the proud he knoweth afar of Psal 138. 6. Surely he scorneth the scorners but he giveth grace to the lowly Pr. 3. 24. Before destruction the heart is haughty and before Honour is Humility Prov. 18. 12. Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased and he who shall humble himself shall be exalted Mat. 23. 12. God resisteth the proud but giveth grace to the humble Jam. 4. 6. Friend some of the Christians of Corinth were proud of their spiritual gi●ts and of their Ministers 1 Cor. 5. 2. and Paul foretold that in the pe●●llous times of the last daies there would be Formalists which would be proud high-minded boasters c. 2 Tim. 3. 1. c. and if thou be one of them how canst thou hope that God will hear thy prayers yea long and fine prayers when thou askest that which would encrease or occasion an encrease of that evil thing in thy soul whereof thou hast too too much already I mean askest worldly prosperity which occasions pride Psal 73. 5 6. Deut. 8. 11 12 13 14. 32. 15 2 Chron. 26. 16. Nab. 9. 28. Hos 13. 6. Thou shouldest rather think thou wantest more affliction to beat down thy pride and think if God doth not hate but love thee that he will in faithfulness add to thy afflictions as he did upon that score afflict the Psalmist Psal 119. 75. rather than exalt thee which might prove thy utter undoing c. This also I would have you all take good notice of that there are six things which are kinds parts or companions of Humility without which or any of them your Humility is not altogether such as it ought to be viz. 1. To submit your selves so to God as to be really content to forsake all your sins and to do whatsoever he requireth of you 2. To leave your selves wholly to God Psal 10. 14. saying unto him with the whole heart concerning all earthly things yea and all spiritual things also which are not of absolute necessity to salvation Nevertheless not as I will but as thou wilt Mat. 26. 39. 1 Sam. 3. 18. 2 Sam. 15. 25 26. Act. 20. 23 24. 3. To entertain the wrath of God and rage of men with a calm and quiet spirit and without hard thoughts of God Jam. 4. 7. Act. 5. 41. 7. 60. 16. 25. 1 Pet. 2. 23. 4. To esteem those whom ye account godly better than your selves and by love to serve one another by doing when need is the meanest offices one for another Phil. 2. 3. Gal. 5. 13. learn the meaning and extent of those two verses which some Expositors will not shew you 5. To accept of the Punishment of thine iniquity and that not in words only but with the whole heart acknowledging that thou hast walked contrary to God and that God hath walked contrary to thee and chastized thee for thy sins and that thou hast merited at his hands far sorer punishments than he hath laid upon thee c. and to do all this with the