Chlp,z.Sect.). Looking unto 1efos. Book Ill. from the vejJels ofcup; ,£ven to a// the ve.JTels offlaggons. Come foul thou art a velfel of fmall quantity, hang all thy weight on chriH:,he is a naile that cannot break. ----________ .......,. __ -~---- SECT. V. of believing in Iefr~~ in that refptll. 5. wE mu£1: !Hleeve on {efus carrying on this great work of onr falvation in a way ofcovenant.Many a time Sathan comes & hurles in a temptation, what.? u it li~ely thar God /bould enter int~ a covenant with thee.? yea, fometimes he fo rivets in this temptation,tbat he darkens all within , and the~s no tight of comfort in the foul : 0 but now beleeve! now if ever is the feafon for faith to ad: ; little evidence and much adherence fpeakes faith to purpofe. We read offome who could fl:ay themfelves upon the Lord , whiles they walked in darknefs upon the margin, and borders of a hundred deaths. David feares no evi~, Pial.:t~.4 though he walked through the valley of the foadow of death; for hts pf,88, 7 . faitli told him , that God was with him. Heman could fay , thy· wrath lieth h11rd upon me,thou haft affl.irted me with all tky waves ; fure he thought , God could do no more to drowne him ; not onely a wave or two, but all Gods waves were on him, and over him ; and yet he beleeves, Lord I have called daily uprm thee. ver. 9 : Hez.ekjahs comforts were at an hard pinch , mine eyes fail with JookJ:ng upwards: 0 Lord, I am oppref{ed; yet praying argues : £i . .bele.eving, Lord underta~e for me. Chrifts fenfe -of comforts-1 q9,1+' was ebbe and low, when lie wept, and cried , that be was for- . faken of God; yet then his faith is doubled , as the cable of an ' '7,1 ' J Anchor is doubled when. the ftorme. is more then ordinary, , my;· . _ God, my God. . · Mat.l7 .i&:~ ; Poore foul ! thou il:andeft wondering at this great condefcea·· tion ofGod; wh>lt ? that qod /hould enter into covenant with me ? what ? that Godfooultl make fuch great and precious promifts with · me.? furely thefe comforts.' and thefe P.riviledges , are tBo high for me, orJ':;r anyfoul .breathmg; . . . . . It n;ay be f0 ·; and yet ~e.no~: dtfc-o,Urag~d ·, fo~ God:wtl! .mag_!ltfie,hts·&"acc ~ . aruld1er~- - · - fore.:
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