Screwed into him by an Almighty hand
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The humble man has a solemn sense of God's holiness—and of his own filthiness before Him. He who is really humble has had a true sight of himself—and carries about with him a deep and abiding sense of his vileness and filthiness.
The base pride, presumption, and hypocrisy of his fallen nature, has been turned up by God's plough in his conscience. He therefore loathes himself in his own sight as a monster of iniquity—and feels that he has sin enough in his heart to damn a thousand worlds!
He sees and feels himself one of the most abominable, carnal, sensual, earthly, and vile wretches, that can crawl on God's earth! He feels that he contains in himself the seeds and budding's of those crimes that have brought hundreds to the gallows!
And these feelings he carries about with him—not as a theory floating in his brain—nor as a doctrine gathered from the Scriptures—but as a solemn reality, lodged and planted by God Himself in his soul—a conviction fastened and screwed into him by an Almighty hand.
This is the way that a man learns humility—not as a cultivated religious duty—but as a lesson spiritually taught him. Now, he sees what a base, helpless, needy, naked wretch he really is.