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THE SECOND SERMON.
—because hee humbleth himselfe before mee, I will not bring the euill in his dayes:—
I Will not so farre either di∣strust your memories, or strai∣ten my selfe of time for the deliuery of what I am now purposed to speake; as to make any repetition of the particu∣lars which were obserued the last time from the consideration of Ahabs person and condition, (who was but an Hypocrite,) taken ioyntly with his present carriage, together with the occasion and successe thereof. He was humbled: it was the voyce of God by his Prophet that hum∣bled him: vpon his humbling God adiourneth his punishment. From all which was noted, 1. that there might bee euen in Hypocrites an outward formall humiliation; 2. the power and efficacy of the word of God, able to humble an oppressing Ahab; 3. the boundlesse mercy of God, in not