43 Flow are we to live by Faith Serm, I$, ti Sdaa.17.37. ° 2 C®r.1.1®, * Ifa40,28. *I Pet,4 19. x Ifa.63,16. Sol. Y A nnv 4'empeßiwe el®qi: Y Joh.'. 6: 2, 4 Ece1.3.I,8cc. Ffal.3 4.6. and Our Fathers truffed, and thou didfl deliver them, P fal. 22.4, 5. Lord thou art the fame yeflerday, to day, and for ever, why then may not I expect Salvation from thee ? z. It's own experiences. Thus David confidently replies to Saul, that thought him no match for Goliah. t The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the Lion and Bear, will alfo deliver me from this un. circumcifed Phili(line ; and thus Paul : He bad the fentence of death up- on him : the black /tones were thrown into the Urn againfl him but Lis God, had, and did deliver, and therefore in him hetrufls, that he trill ft ill u deliver. VI. And La/ily,1 argue from Thofe de.,r Relations in which the Lord is pleafed to f and, and own, rewards his people.T h . f,° cry aloud for thei r truft in God,Is he nor our * Creator ?Hach he built the houfe,and will he not keep it up ? he that made us, will affuredly take care of us. We may fafely give up our felves, our trzfl, our all co him, who hash aiven us our felves , and our all. This * relation the Apofile makes the ground of tru fl, .Is be not our Redeemer? will he part with his blood for us and yet deny us bread? Is he not our x Father ? Are we not his Chil- dren ? and (hail not he provide for his own children? 1 Tim,5.8. Hach the great God put fuch a Philo. orgy.or natural affeftioï into the. Bear, Pellican, Dolphin, Lionefs, Eagle, towards their young,and (hall not he much more carry his own upon Eagle's wings ? Exod. 19, 4. IW he not our King, Head, and Husband ? in a word, All thofe Relo tions wherein we Eland To God, or God to au, are f able Grounds of our trufl: upon Hine, and f tong engagements of His AJf ance to, and Providence over us. Thus much for the Fourth General, the Fifth followeth. V. What are thole ifiecial and fignal Seafons, which call aloud for the exerting of this Divine Tru], This Holy Duty is indeed never out of Seaton : So match the Original. word Y rw for time imports. True indeed our Saviour faith and faith Truly, Ady Time, i. e. my Time of difeovering my feif to be a Wonder - working God, is net k yet come. Yea, but all Time, in refpeâ of Truti in God, is an appointed, yea, and an accepted Time. The Wife man tells us,There is an appointed t Time for every purpole under Hea- ven. A time to kill and to heal; to ph oat and to plucks?, to weep and to laugh, to get and to lofe, to be born and to die. In all thefe Truff inGod,is,not likeSnow in harvefl uncomely,but feafonable,yea necelary. There may be indeed a time,when God will not be found,butNo time, wherein lie muff not be Tr 4 ed. Nullum Tempus occurrit Regi, faith the Law, Let me add, Nec Fiducia_, and 'cis found Divinity. The tarns_
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