3 22 I Hose toliveby Faith in timeefAdverfitie, Efiy.39.s. beene inabled to fay, The wordo the Lordis good, Iwill Mich.7.9. &care the indignation of the Lord,becaufe I avefinned againf# him, untill he pleaá my caufe, and execute judge., ment formee. Ifbelay thus, Ihave no delight in thee, behold heream I, let him doe tome asfeemethgoodunto him, Soirtly Ihave behavedandq'detedmy [elfe as a child that L. weaned ofhis Mother; nayfouleis even as aweanedchild. Iwaeas a man that heareth not, and in rvhofe mouth are no rrproofes.. For in thee, GLord, doe Ihop. Gutltinefleo` Confcience (which is ever fearefull,) and untamed paillons make un- quictneffe, when the rod of God is upon our backen ; both which are corrected by fa th. The confcienceis com- forted by faith, refling upon thegracious prom fes ofpar- don, and giving affurance that Gnne is pardoned ; Pallions are curbedand bridled by the foveraignty of faith, as ha- ving theaffections under command, which it doth feafon and move according to the direction of the word; and by potent, irrefRibie perfwafìons, whereby it vt or- keth the foule to thisfweete andheave,ly fubmifíion.And as a p'aifler,whichupon fore flefh caurerh much fmart,up- on found flefh (lirreth no paine: fo troubles lighting upon a foule hea'ed by grace, and feafoned by fàith,are nothing fo grievous. The confiderations of faith, whereby it perfwadcs unto meeknefïè, be filch like. The firl} taken from the defert of fin, which is fárre greater then any thing we futlr,or can conceive.wherefove dotha living man complaine,a manfor thepunílhment ofhisfnnes ? The fecond, from the,.hand that layeth the rod upon our backe, or r achethout this bitter potion, whichwc are forced todrinke off, and at is God, our moil wife, ju(l,grácious,ai,d loving Father. Whereashumane reafon did cloudily andobfcurely fuggefl to it followers certaine broken and confuted opinions, little better then dreames, ofdellinie,andprovidence Faithcloth evidently and cer- tainly afire ofthis ground òfpatience.'and cörriforr, that the lea(} tickebefals us not, without the overruling eye and Samt 5,24, Pfal.13i.z. 1f.38,19,t 5. By what tonfi- aerations faith perfwader to msehtenes under Gode hand. I. Lan 3 39. 2. Iohn.i E. t t.
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