c6 I The Spirit uall-aElings of Faith provide for you : beleeve in me, that I am able to fitisfy for you. If you would not haue your hearts troubled that I am now to leave vou,at themany difcouragements that you are to meet withill; 'cis not enough for you, that you beleeve in God, as God ; but you mull beleeve in me alfo, as your me- diator, and refl upon me : True, faving, juRifying faith, is the onely meanes to beare up your hearts through all this trouble, And if you looke into the 17. of Luke., you than find, that when our Saviour Clara would teach his Difciples how to do ahard work, he does point them unto this j ufti- fying faith. 'Ind the Lordfaid,( at the fiat verfe ) If le had faithas agroine ofmugardfeed, you might lay to this Syca- mine-tree,Re thou pluckkt up by the roote, and be thou planted in the Sea, and it fbould obey you. You will fay, This is a faith of (.2/Eracles. You may be pleafed therefore to ob- ferve, that our Saviour Chrift ufes this, and the like. expreff ion upon threefeverall occofions. Once uponoccafion that his Dif- ciples could not call out theDevil out of fome that were poi fell. Once upon occafion that the fig-treewas dryed up and withered.And once here upon occafion that theDifciples Paid, Lord increafe our faith : when they thought it was fo hard a thing to forgive a man fo often as Chrift required. Fill}, our Saviour ufes this and the like exprefflon ofre- moving a Sycamine tree, and the mountaines ; upon occa Pion that the Difciples couldnot c.:ft out the Divell. And of that you reade in Matth. 17. 20. and there (indeed) he fpeakes ofthe faith of miracles. Why could not we call. him out? (verfe T9.) Iefus laidunto them, becaufeofyour unheliefe for verily Ifay untoyou, ,'fye havefaith as ograine muflard- feed,yefballfayunto this mountain,remove home toyonderplace, and it(ball remove,ondnothingAall be unpollible untoy ou. Here he fpeakesof the faithofmiracdes,becaufe thereby we thould be able to call out the divell; which plainly (peaks a miracle. He ufes againe this like expreffion, upon an occafion -of the drying up of the fig-tree. And concerning that you reade in Mark) I, 20. As they papdby, they faro the fig-tree dried upfrom the roots. Peter calling to remembrance, faith unto
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