Serra. 18. Savieur,,uN 7ve..qriaco ri rgdtaúp,cavr. Let not your Heart be Troubled, * Nepértarbe fo Troubled, as a flap tuft in a Tempeft : ye Believe in God, Believe alto tut., commove-7 me. Faith is that great Antidote , Cordial, Panacea, Catholicon, Heal -All of all Difeafes : This is That, that makes a Believer Live in the midfi of Death. But more particularly in This Tempe ffuosr4 Condi- tion,Faith doth thefe three Things. I. It warily avoids /arse dangerous Rocks, and Quid; fends. 2. It heedfully looks to it's Bottom in which it fails. 3 . It accurately obferves it's Compafs, by which it fleers. Shelves ic -ands lilZ. lla, and Cha- rybdis, againft which,in fuch a dark, Condition, the Soul is apt to flit it felt. Thefe Faith avoids with utmoft Care, and They are Six. 1. Diftrae`2ing, diflruflfull,carking, corroding, heart - dividing, heart - ftabbing Cares. Faith according to the Apoftles 0 command , tulAv o K<e1boa : is carkingly Careful for nothing, but in every thing by Prayer and fupplicatìon makes it's requefls known to God. True indeed, a Be- ¡lever iâ not, may not,dares not be, flethfully, negligently catelefs of his Body, Eftate, Relations, Affairs, particular calling, Rom. 12.17. Faith knows, that He that endeavours not by bonefl, prudent, diligent, care and forefight ,To Y provide for his own is worfe than an Infidel.And v i Tim. 5.8. yet Faith is far from Ail carping Cares, fuch as diftra61 the Head, and q divide the Heart from other and better things. Faith cakes no thought gMat.6.25, &e for its life, what it {hall eat,F,either f'or the Body, wherewith it fhall be cloathed. Faith leaves that to God, who feeds clue Sparrows and clothes the Lillies.'Tis l`or Gentiles and unbelievers to cry out foltciton fy,what Jhall we eat ,or what {hail we drink,or wherewithal Jhall we be cloathed? My Heavenly Father knows that. I have need of all thefe Things. It belongs to him t, provide. ' .'is his work, I leave it with him. All that r Care, I cart upon him, He loth and will care for me. I may not,. -mi[ r c Pet.5.7.9 not, faith Faith, fpeak :'gain[} God, as did the f Ifraelites, faying, Can t PG78.19,20. God furnilh a table in the Wilderne(r ? As he hark given waters, can be áive bread alfo, can he provide fl, th for his people ? 2. Carnal Counfel;ufing unlawf ul,andCarnal Confidence ,Trufling ix Lawful means. Say not when God purfuts, t Afhur {hall fave you, ` Hof.14. 3 and you will ride on holes. In fic k.nefs Faith will not run frrl to the Phyfician. That was Good u Afa's great fin.' Iwas holy David's great u 2 Cro.6a2. failing, to fay, (th,)ugh but. in his Heart) Nothing better for me then to efcape into the Land of the x Philiftines. Alas poor David , to what a x t Sam.27,I.. Jhift art Thou now driven ? what to the nncircumcifed Philiflines? Is it becaufe there is not a. God is *ad ? Oh, thou wilt quickly find this L 11 ftarting on Divine Providence ? `443
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