through Natural! impoffibilities. 195 Chrift. He that comes over the River, mull come from that fide of the water, if he will come to this : And he that comes to Chrift , he mull come from his old Cu- flows , andhis Oen engagements, and his own Righteoufneffe: this is a hard thing. I may fay in fome refpeeb , 'tis harder to beleeve, then to keepe the ten Commandments, becaufe there is fomething in nature towards them. Chrift is the way to Heaven, and Faith is the way to Chrift (underftand it right- ly) Faith is the way to Chrift ; now therefore it being fo hard a worke to beleeve, furely, , the way to Jefus Chrift mull needs be laid with many difficulties , and natural! dif- couragements. But that is but the rice. Secondly, Though the way to Jeff-is Chrift be clogged with 2, many difficulties, True,faving,jugifying Faith, willcarry us through all difficulties,difcouragements,and naturall Impoffibili- ties to 7e(im Chrift. 'Tis that grace that is oppofed to the finful ceqz-is-ict that theApoftle fpeaksof;He being notweak in Faith, heconfidered not his owne body b',hsx.cian he ftaggered not ; the wordyou tranflate .11-aggering, in other places 'tis tran flated doubting, Nothing doubting; but the fame word is. tranflated alfo, difeerning; Not difcerning the Lords body. Cor.11.29.And fo the word will fullybear that fignification. When a inan lookesupon things with an eye of reafon , he makes a difcretion of Dijudication of things : fame things are facile eafy ; come things are hard. But when a man lookes by faith upon the power of God, there is not that difcretion there, All things are eafy to the eye of faith, that, lookes at the power of God. You {hall obferve therefore, that whenour Lord and Saviour himfelfe, would beare up the hearts of his difciples over all difcouragements, he di- reds them to this worke of believing with a faving, inflify- ing know theplace, Let notJour hearts be troubled, Tohn14,4. ye beleeve inGod, beleeve alto in mee, An Hebraifme , no- ' ting a Similitude : Thefather worker hitherto,and Iwork., That is, as the father workes, fo I work. Sohere,ye beleeve inGod, beleeve alfo inme.That is, as ye beleeve in God the father, fo 1 beleeve alfo in me; ye beleeve that God the Father is, able to I Bb 3 pro:.,
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