throughNatural! impolibifitie.r. (WZR1TAMZIN, IMMIRZW4M2 ZoMXIitn1.1m7AMKEVItZMWS., Rom. 4. verf. 19. And being not weakinfaith, he confidered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundredyears old , neitheryet the deadnefjeofSarahswombe. He words (as yeheard the Ian day ) are fpoken concerning Abraham: And they hold forth three great Truths unto us. The Firft is this : That When God in- tends to fulfill his promife , by giving any bleffingto thechildren of Abraham : he does firfl put the fentenceof death upon the Wing, and upon all the meanes that do lead unto it : brahams body is dead , and Sdrabs wombe is dead ; when God had promifed him a great feed. The Second is this : when god is thus ?leafed toput thefen- tence of death upona bleffing, or the meanes that do lead there- to : '1 hen , and then cfpecially , 'tis the duty Andcommendation of all the children of Abraham .to beleeve in God, and not to fland poring upon the meanes , and the deadneffe thereof He confiderednot hi4own body being dead, nor the cbadneffe of Sa-, rahs wombe, The Third is this : That no difficulty canfang efore Faith: true faving , jfifiifying fiaith, carries the Souk through all. difficulties , difcouragementa and naturall impoffibilities to yefus Cbrifk. Thus it was here with Abraham : he being not weak in Faith, he had an eye unto Jefus Chrift. I Preached. at Marga- rets New ,:;thitreer. March. z. I64S.
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