428 How are we to live by Faith Senn. 18. 44 2 Dan.3.z3. ;Ifa.4.5,6. five Negatives ,8c may thus be rendred: i v. ill not,not leave thee,ncither will I not,not forfake thee. Five times,as one obferves ,is this pretiúuSPro- mile renewed, that we may fuck and be fatùfaed with the breafts of its confolations,that we may rilkout and be delighted with the abundance of its glory. Leave us God may to our thinking, but really he doth nor, will not. Or if he leaves us for a time, a fmali moment, yet he will no forfake us utterly : D f rt he may,but not difinherit ;forfake us, it may be, in regard of Vifian, not of Union ; Chang. his di enfation, not his di fpofrtion. e Dolt thou pals through the waters ? Thy God haft promi- fed to be with thee : He was fo with Noah, and the Ifraelites in the red Sea, and in yordan. Dofl thou walk through the fire ? War'm'd thou n,r*,ft be,thou Cha'I n. t be burnt,feither (hall the flai,e kindle upon the. The three Children were living Mone meats of tins truth, God f: nr hit Angel and delivered his Servants that trufiedin him. the Lord itath gratioully engaged to create upon every d welling place of Mount Sion, and upon her Afren.blies a closed and g tmoak by day, for her proteaion, and the fbining of a flaming, fife by night, for dircttion,to be a Shield and Sun, yea, and fhadcw from the heat, and a place of refuge, and a Covert hpf.119.49,50 from florin and from rain. In fuck Promifes as thefe holy David h tru- fled This was his comfort in his afidion, the word of his God quick wed him. Gods Promifes are fume of his Bonds and Obligations,where- by he is held firally bound to Believers. Thefe faith makes hold to put in fuit, to plead the fecurity that God hash given : Lord, faith Faith, here is thy Bill obligatory, b:hold, fee here thy hand and feat: Difcern, I pray thee, whole are thefe, the Signet, and Bracelers,and Staff. Thus David, Pfal.1 19.49. Remember thy word unto thy Servant, -wherein thou haft caufed me to hope ;the word of Promife was all that David had to Phew, and he counts that enough to let his Faith on work. 4-. a C ®r.YO I2, 4. Gods inviolable,ffedfaff,never- failing' Faittifulnefs. Gods goodnefs . inclines him to make good Promifes, and his fait f wlnefs engages him to make thefe Promifes good. If the word be once gone ont of his mouth, *. Luke 21.33. * Heaven eft earth Thal fooner pals away,than one Iota of that word fail. Jofh.23.14, This faithfulnefs of God i Jofhna afferts to the heighth : throws down 15. the Gantlet, and does,as it were,challenge all Ifracl to thew but that one thing thatGod had failed them in,of all the good things that he had pro - Pfai,119.73. mifed.lf God in very k faithfnlnes affiiEls,to make good his threatnings, much more in faithfulnefs will he preferve, to make good his Promifes. God never yet did, never will fail that man that puts his truft in him, Pf.9.1o. It is true God may frown on,yea,and feverely lath a Solomon -, a;.7edidiáh when they break his Statutes, and keep not his Command- Tents
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