I9Z The Spirituall-atiings ofFaith, wai.xxxt-Nmwimfg-xm mastaxtacarglams.tra Rom. Li.. verf. I 9. And being not weakjor weakned)in faith, he conlidered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundredyearsold, neitheryet the deadnefft ofSarahs wombe `yHe words are fpoken of erlbraham : and they hold forth Three great Truths, as yee have heard, Firft, That WhenGod intends anygreat mercy, or bleffing to the children ofAbraham ; he does firfl put the Sentence of death upon the bleffing, or mercy , and upon all themeant: that do lead unto it. Secondly, 7 hat then , and then lecially , 'tis the duty ofall the children of Abraham, of all beleevers then, for to trug in God. Thirdly , That no difficulties canfland before Faith : true graving, juflifyingfaith, carries thefoule through all difficulties, difeouragements, andnatural! impoffibilities to 7efpu I have done with the two former , and am now to fpeake unto the third. Nodifficulties can 'land before Faith : Truefaving,juflify- ingFaith , carries thefoule through all difflculties, diycourage- ments andnaturallimpoffibilities to fella (hriff. Abraham had a promife given him , that his feed fhould be as the{tams of Heaven : and that in his feed all the Nati- ons of the world fhould be bleft. Upon this promife, Abra- hams body is dead, and Sareshf body is dead : Now Abra- ham beleeves. Being not weake in Faith, he confidered not the (7310M. 3..
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