420 How are we to live by Faith Serme 18, Sol. I. Negatively. To prefume on God, To tempt God To conceive falfe hops of Gods g acious favour and protetion, whilfi in a way of finis Not To Trull in God.Togallop down a precipice and To fay Con. ft lent ly, I íhall not fall : To cats our. felves down headlong from a Pinacle ` a of the Temple,andyet Te expect the proteEtion of e4ngels, Mat. 4. 6, 7. ?mac 3.1!. To Teach for Hire,and To Divine for Mony,and yet tog lean upon the Lord, faying,is not the Lord among us,None evill can come upon us : To hlefs a mans felt in his heart, and co fay he fhall have peace, though he. 3ob w ilk in the imaginations of his evill heart, Dent. 29. 1 9. Ail this is not 5.31 to Troll in God, but To Trull in i Vanity, and to fpin the Spiders web, Job 8.13,14. 2. Pofitively : and fo more generally, and more particularly. k Pfa1.55.22. t. More Generally, ToTruft in God, is ToCaji k our burchen on the Lc rd when 'cis too heavy for oufewn fhoulder. To Dwell in the fe- 1 P151.91.1. cret 1 places of the Molt High, when we know not where to t.ry our Heads on earth. To loukto our 1lfaker,and to have refpec`f To the Holy n Ifa. 36.6. One of Ifrael, Ifa. 17. 7, To n lean on our Beloved, Cant. 8.5. To flay our felves, when finking -,on the Lord our God, Ifa. 26.3.In a word Trutt in God, is that High via. or Exercif[ of Faith, whereby the Soul locking upon. God and ca fling of it's felt' on His goodnefs, power, promifes, faithfnlnefs, and providence, is lifted up, above carnall fears , and dif- cour.:gem ents, above perplexing doubts, and difgsrietments, either for the " obtaining and continuance of that which is good, or for the preventing or removing cf that which is evil!. 2. More particularly : For the clearer difcovery of the Nature of Divine Trutt, we fhall lay before you, It's Ingredients, Concomitants, I. The Ingredients of Trutt in God. They are three, 1. A clear knowledge,or Right Apprehenlion of God Ai Revealed in Hui o Pfa1.9.Io. Word, and Works. They and They only That 0 Know Thy Name, will 7-ruff in Thee, The grand Rea fon, why God is fo little Trufied, is be- caufe He is fo little Known.Knowledge of God is of fuch neceffity to a Right Trutt, that it is put as a Synonymy for Trutt. I will fet Him on P Pfaff. 91.1. high, hecaufe He bath P Knol'n ( i.e. Trufled in) my name. 2. .4 full f: f fern of the linderftanding,and Cosa font of the r#ill,to Thole DivineRevelations,as True andgood,wherein the Lord propofethHimfelf as an cff day slate ObjeEl. for our Trutt.- This Aft the Greeks exprefsby the word nrszuew. The Latines by Credere, Fidem babere. Teftimenium recipere: The Hebrews by t'=tiì t. All importing Relieving or giving q End. 14.31 credit to. Thus the Ifraelites are faid To 9 believe. the Lord and his Servant
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