The Life ofFaith. 26L delves into a refoly d war with the D:vil, the World, and the Fla, which in the performance will refit us. And thus Faith or Trull is confitutcd and completed in the true Bap- tifmal Covenant. Direct. 28. Its all this befuse thatyou obferve the difference between the trutb ofFaith, andtbehigh degrees. The truth of it is moll certainly dsfcerned by (as confz(iirg in) [THE ABSOLVTE CASTING or VENTURING nor part, but ALL TOUR HAPPINE S arid HOPES VON GOD and the AUDI/1701.0 ONLY, And LETTING GO ALL WHICH IS 11 :ONSIg1ENT WITH THIS CHOICE and TRII.ST. This is true and laving Faith and Trull, Pardon me that I fomerime ufe the word VENTVR 1NG ALL, as if there were any uncertainty in the matter. I in- tend not by it to exprefs the lead uncertainty or fallibility in Gods Proraufe : For Heaven and Earth (hall pals away, but one jot or tittle ofhis Word (hail not pafs, till all be fulfilled : But I [hall here add, r. True Faith or Trull may confifl with uncertainty in the perfoss whobelicveth , if he believe and gruff Chri[i but Co far, that he can calf away all his worldly treafures and hopes, even life it fell-upon that trail. Every one is not an Infidel, nor an Hypocrite, who mud fay, ifhe fpeak his heart [I ano not cer- tainpaff all doubts, that the foulis immortal, or the Gotrel true: iut I am certain, that immortal bappinefa is men defirable, and ersllefs wifery nre4 terrible , andrhat rhos . world is vanity, and nothirgw it worthy to be conspired, with the hopes which. Cbriff bath given us ofa better life : Anlchere)ors upon ju/f delib, ration 1 am refolvrd re 1 -r go all my faful pleafures, profits, and worldly reputation, and life nfelt, whenir it incontinent with :heir hopes Andre tithe Gads Love far my f licity and end, and to .!ruff and venture abfolutey al my bappinrfs and hopes on the favour of Gad, the mediation of Chri[f, end the freenifes which be bat, given us in the Gofpel.] I know I (hall raooct with abundance of Teachers and people.* that will fhak: the head ar this dotirin,e as danrrrous, and cry out of it as favouáing unbehcf, that any one tlaould have trust fault?, Faith, whodoubtrthh,,or is unscrra s a gilt; imyjitriliiity &k,
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