} 352 What it is to liveby Faith touching the ifwe be inaruted, exercifed, and affaulted in both alike. Chrif}ians arcoft afiaubed touching thefepromifes,and many vertuous and godly men, not duly coní dering a..d t r6,t r, embracing themby faith, are much perplexed in them- PfaL ;r,zz, felvcs.Ilaidinnyhaft (faid David whenhefled from Said and his heart began to faint) amen are liars ; even the prophets,who toldme I fhouldbeking,have deceivedme. 1)if}ruft in the temporali promifes ofGod, bath driven the f.aithfitll tomany hard,dangerous fiifts, and beene the occafion.ofdivers (lips and tome dangerous falls. The ex- amples ofAbraham, `David, and many others, together with dailyexperience in all places, doe fafficieutly teftióe thus much. Faith fweeteneth and fanaiñethuntous the ufe of all 5. outward comforts underour hands. Meate, apparel!, ri- ches, honours (though lawfully campafled and in abun- dance poffeffed) yeeld but a fowre tall in comparifon, are but offinali profit, when they be not ufed in faith. Nay, bleflings, not received and ufed in faith, become Idols, or Marke to. t4. occafions of Idolatrie : for either we truf} in them, or be Pro., o liftedup in our felves by reafon of them. The rich mans Pfal.62 ro, wealth is his firong City : he rejoyceth in his riches, and Pro. 30.8,9. bath in his thoughts to doe great matters by them.Gtveme neither poverty nor riches,feede me withfóode convenientfor me: LcJ I 6e full, and denie thee, and fay, who IS the Lord. The godly areallowed to live b' faith touching thefe Tbegodly are temporali promifes, and the £anftified ufe of Gods blef- a!lomed to live fìn s which they For feeing Godbath given Chri1 a byfaith tau- g Y en l Y g shins therepro- mifes. s. Rom.8.?2. EfaY 7.t It for us, as the Apof}le reafoneth : how fhall he not with him alfo freelygive us all rhings.'febathgiven his Sonne, the fountaine ofa'lgood things : what is it then, that he will denie unto us ? The prornife of Chri(} before his in- carnationwas ro the /ewes a Peale of all temporal! good things promifed.But we know Godhath given hisSonre, not onely tobe borne, but todie for us : which is an un- doubted
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