2 56 7'ke Life of Faith. Luke 14. a6, 27, 33. Mat. re. Korn. S. 17, 18. And on this ground the promife to Jejhua is applied, lieb. 13. I will never fail thee norferfake thee, becaufe it is but a branch of the Co- venant common to all the faithful. Hired. z;. Refute that you lay theffreff ofoll your hopes ea theProtnifes ofGod, andveosture all your happineff on them, and whenGodealletb to it, exprefs this by forfeiting all elfe for thefe hopes,that it may appearyou really truff Gods word, without any feeret hypocritical referees. This is the true life, and work, and tryal offaith : whether weó:414(o much on the Protnife of God, that we can take the thingpromifed for aUour treafurs, and the Word of God for eur whole feeurity. As Faith is called a Truffing in God fo it is apraefical kind of1'rug ; anal the principal tryal ofit, lyeth in forfaking all other happinefs and hopes, in confidence of Gods promifa through Jefus Chriut. To open the matter by a fimilitude a Suppofe that Chrifi came again on earth as he did at his Incarnation, and fhould confirm 'his truth by the fame miracles, and other means; and fuppofc hè fhould then tell all the Country, I have a Kingdom at the Antipodes, where men never die, but live in perpetual profperity ; and thole of you (hall freely poffefs it, who will part with your own efiates and Country, and go in a fhip of my providing, and ttuff me for your Pilot to bring you thither, and trufl'me togive it you when you come there. My power to do all this, I have proved by my miracles, and my love and will, my or proveth.] How nowwill you know whether a awn believe Chtift, and trufi this promife or not ?.why, if he believeand trufl him, he willgo with hian,and will leavé a6, and venture over the Seas wíaitherfoever he conduð him, and in that ß ip which he preparcth for him : But ifhe dare not venture, or will opt leave his prefent Coun- try and poffeffions, it is a fgn that hedoth nit truft bins. Ifyou were going to Sea, and had feveral Ships andPilots offered you, and you were afraid left one were unfafe, and the -Pilot unskilful, and it were doubtful which were to be truflcd; whenafter all deliberation you chufe ons, and refufe the reff, and scfolyc to venture your life and goods in it, this is properly called
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