Heart Humiliation, Docket title – To the reader
Binnings Miſcellany Sermons.
August 23. 1670.
IT is Ordered by the Lords of His Majeſties moſt Honourable Privy Council, That none ſhall Re-print, or Import this Book of Miſcellany Sermons, by Mr. Hugh Binning, nor any other of the ſaid Authors Books, for the ſpace of 19. years to come, without licence of the Printers hereof.
A. G.
HEART-HUMILIATION: OR, Miſcellany Sermons Preached upon ſome choice Texts, at ſeveral Solemn occaſions: Never before Printed.
By that eminent Preacher of the Goſpel, Mr. Hugh Binning, late Miniſter at Govan.
Jer. 4. 14.
O Jeruſalem, waſh thine heart from wickedneſs, that thou mayeſt be ſaved, &c.
EDINBURGH, Printed by James Glen, Anno DOM. 1676.
Chriſtian Reader,
THis holy Preacher of the Goſpel, had ſo many convictions upon his ſpirit of the neceſſity of the duties of humiliation and mourning, and of peoples ſecuring the eternal intereſt of their ſouls for the life to come, by fleeing in to Jeſus Chriſt for remiſſion of ſins in his blood, that he made theſe the very ſcope of his Sermons in many publick Humiliations, as if it had been the one thing which he conceived the Lord was calling for in his dayes. A clear evidence whereof thou ſhalt find manifeſted in theſe following Sermons upon choice Texts, wherein the Author endeavoureth, not only to lay before thee, the neceſſity of theſe duties of ſoul-humiliation, but alſo ſheweth thee the Goſpel-manner of performing them, the many ſoul-advantages flowing from the ſerious exerciſe of them, and the many ſoul-deſtroying prejudices following upon the neglect of them: But above all, thou ſhalt find him ſo fully ſetting forth the ſinfulneſs of ſin, and the utter emptineſs of ſelf, as may convince the moſt Phariſaically, elated ſpirits, and make them cry out with Ezra, Chap. 9. 6. O my God, I am aſhamed and bluſh to lift up my face to thee my God, for our iniquities are increaſed over our head, and our treſpaſs is grown up unto the Heavens. Here thou mayſt read ſuch pregnant demonſtrations of the righteouſneſs and equity of the Lords dealing even in his ſevereſt puniſhments inflicted upon the children of men, as may ſilence every whiſperer againſt providence, and make them ſay, as Lam. 3. 22. It is of the Lords mercies we are not conſumed, even becauſe his compaſſions ſail not. And laſtly, thou ſhalt perceive the inconceivable fitneſs and fulneſs of Chriſt as a Saviour, and his never enough to be admired tenderneſs and condeſcending willingneſs to accept of humble, heart-broken, and heart-panting ſinners after him, with ſuch plainneſs of ſpeech demonſtrat, as may enable the moſt bruiſed reed to quench all the fiery darts of the devil, whereby he laboureth to affright them from making application to Jeſus for ſalvation. Now that the Lord would make thoſe and ſuch like labours of his faithful ſervants uſeful and advantagious to thy ſoul (Chriſtian Reader) is the prayer of
Thy Servant in the Goſpel of our deareſt Lord and Saviour, A. S.