When blindness and boldness, ignorance and arrogance, weakness and willfulness meet together in one, it renders men odious to God, it maketh men burdensome in society, dangerous in their counsels, troublers of better designs, untractable and incapable of better direction, miserable in the issue: where Christ showeth his gracious power in weakness, he doth it by letting men understand themselves so far as to breed humility, and magnifying of God’s love to such as they are: he doth it as a preservative against discouragements from weakness, seeing it bringeth men into a less distance from grace,
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