upon-the Epiftleof J 'A M B s. VER s.6. .45 above the prefem temptat.ion, ~nd beleeve that rhere is love enough . tojufl:ifie 'US from fo many fins, .power efl~;mgh CO deliver US jr'B'fn..J . fo g-reat a deathor danger, and bounty: enough to befiow fo great 2. Cor. x. 1o. a mercy : This is to pray in faith,to form proper and right thoughts . ofGod in prayer, when we fee.there is enough to anfwer theparti- . cular doubt and eKigency; as Mat. 9• z8, 29. Jefus faith to the · · two blinde men, Beleeve7e that I am able tr; do thu f and· they [aid, Yea, L.ord: Then touched he their eye!, [aying, According toyour faith, be it untoyou : Chrifl: asked firil, whether they had a t'ight eilimation of his power, and t.hen, in the next place, he calleth 'it faitk, and gave them the bleffing: Thofe that come to God, had need-conceive rightly of him ; Chrlfi requireth nothing more of. the blindeitnan., but a fealing to the greatnefsof his power, Be– leevefl: thou that I am able ?Yea, Lord; and that was all. But you .wil fay ,Tel us more difl:inCl:ly,what faith is required in everyprayer? · I anfwer, The que.fiion hail been in a great part already an[wered. But for further .fatisfaCl:ion take thefe rules; r. That where ·'"'e have lit CertaifJ . promife) WC muft no '"'tZJ doubt of his wil/; for the doubt mufi: either proceed fro!Pafuf{;ition, that this it; not the Word or Will of God, and that is·Athfi[m ; Or, from a jea– ·loujie, that Godwill not f1!ake good his Word, and that is B!af– .phemy ;·Or afear, that he is not able to accompliib his Will, and that's down-right diil:rufi and unbelief : Therefor,e where we have aclear fight of his Will in the Promife, we may have a confidence towards·him, I Job. 5. I 4· 2; Where we have no certain ajJu– ranc-e·Bf his Will, theWork._ of faith io to glorifte and apply . his poWer·: Unbelieffiumbleth mofl: at that, rather at Gods can then ·will, as 'appearethpartly by experience; fears come upon us only whenmeans fail,and the bleffings expeCted are mofl: unlikely,which .argueth, That 'tis not the uncertainty of Gods will, but the mif- ~onceit of hupower that maketh us doubt ; . The prefent dangers ' and difficulties furprize ns with fuch a terror, that we cannot com– for-tably ufe the help of prayer, out of a faith in Gods power : Partly 6y -the teftimony of the Scriptures; Search, and you lhall finde, That Gods power and al-fufficiency is the firfi ground and reafon of Faith: Abrahambeleeved, becaufeGodw.u able to per– form, Ram. 4· 21. And that Unbelief expreffeth it felf in fuc.~ language, as impliethaplain difirufi of (jods power, as Pfa.78. 19. ·(an ~~e L?rdprepare a tablf in theWildernefs ? 'Iis not will, but ' · , - .. · · G 3 · · · - can :
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