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VER
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io.
Epbefianr,Chap.6.
791
the Lord
of
Hofts
fhall
command
them
:
he
ufeth them
at
pleafure.
The horfeand
chariot
is
prepared,
but
vietory
is
from the
God
of
bat
-
tell
:
many
feeke
the
face
of
the
Judge,
but judgement
is
from the
Lord
:
men rife up
early, but God
builds
the
city
:
we may
ufe
meate
and medicine, but
God
is
our
life, and
length
of
our dayes
:
and
it
is
feeke,
the fwift bath not the race, the
wife
wanteth bread.
Secondly,
the
devill
will
labour
to
fupplant
our
faith
by
indrrel/
wayes,
leading
to a
releafe,
and
kerning to
put
an
end
to
our evils
:
for, teeing
that we
are wearie in
enduring, and would
faine fee
reft
from troubles,
he
then will open pofterne doores,
in
dire wayes
of
deliverance;
like
Fowlers, when
all
is
hard froft
and
fnow, they
(hew
meate,
that
birds (harply
fee
may
flee
on murder.
Thus
Sarab,Gen.
r
6.a.
And Sarah
faid,
Behold,now the
Lord bath reflrained
me
from child
bearing,
I
pray
thee
goe
in
unto
my
maid,
it
may
be
that I
/hall receive a
child
by
her. Da.
vid,
r Sam.
a
7.
I.
Is
it
notbetter
for me
that
I fave
my
felfe in
the land
of
the Philiftines,
&c
c
Chrift,
till
at. 4. Command thefe ftones to
be made bread
by miracle, now thou art hungry.
We
mutt therefore
take heede,
that
we
often thinke
on
that
in
Efay,
He
that
beleeveth,
maketh not hafte
:
and confider againe,
that the
cafe
of
fuch meanes,
is
like
to
a
draught
of
drinketo
a
hot
ague, it maketh
the
fire
burne
worfe after
:
your
iffue in
this kinde,
is
but breaking
the
jay
le
which
maketh
us
fubjeEt
to
double puni(hment.
Now followeth
the
fourth
con
fderatiou,
how we
may
keepe
our
faith
againfl ail affaults,and
encreafe
it.
Firft,
by
expelling
felfe-
confidence,
and
unbeleefe: Secondly, by confiderationsthat
lead
direlly
to the
ftrcngthening
of
our
f
ith
:
Thirdly,
rules
of
either. Firft,
he
that
will
beleeve,
mull
deny
all
trufl
in
his owne wifedome :
for,
feelfe
confidence
it
a choake
weed
of
beleefe,
Prov. 3.
S.
Trutt
in
the Lord
with
all
thy
heart,
and
lean
not
ro
thy owne wifedome.
We
are
the circumcifion,
ho
have no confidence in the
&lh,
but rejoyce
in
Chrift
Jefus.
And
as
we can
grow downe,
denying our wifedome and
all
ftrength
wecan
make
:
fo
(hall
faith on
our great God grow
up.
2.
We
,mutt
(hike
at
unbeleefe,
withthe fword
of
the fpirit, taking
up
our felves for hal-
ting,with
fuch like places
as
thefe, Heb.ro.
Now
the juft
(hall
live
by
faith but
if
any
withdraw
himfelfe, my foule
(hall
have no pleafure in
him.
As
the murmuring
and unbeleeving
Ifraelites,who would not
be-
leeve the
Lords oath given
them,that
he
would make them dwell
in
the
temporali
Land
Canaan,
were accordingly
(hut
out
of
it:
fo faithle(fe
ones,
who
beleeve
not Gods promifes,
concerning the true Land
of
Canaan,
the
heavenly
kingdome,
(hall
be barred from entring
that
ho-
ly
place.
See Numb. 14. 29,
3o, 31, 32,
Chewing
on fuch words, will
tame the ficrcene(te
of
unbeleefe.
Thirdly,
we
muff
confider the
injurious
effe&s
which
this
fin
Both
to God,
and us.
For
unbeliefe
giveth
God the
lie.
r
lohn.
5.
so. He
that
beleeveth not
in
God,
maketh him
a
lycr
:
then which, what
can
be more reproachful)!
and it
doth
us
all
the
harme
:
for nothing
could
hurt
us,
if
this were
not.
Heb.4. ult.
They
could
not
enter
for
T
t
t z
unbeleefe,