69 / 1054
On
the Excellency
of
(
-hr
ill.
ward
afllié
ion,
when
as
Cod
makes
known unto them, that
love,
and
that
inhnite
colnpadion,
chofe
tender
bowels
of ids,
even to fend
his
own
Son
into the world
for
them?
And
then fourthly,
It
was
to teach them,
this,
that
the
way
of
deliverance from
any
outward
atliid
}ion,
it
was
to
exercife
their
faith upon
drill
the
Melia
that
was
to
come
,
the
Lord
would reach
his
Church when
it
was
in
afi&ions,
not
fo
much
to bee looking at
the
prevent
afdiaion that
was
upon
them,
and
fo
to
feek for
outward help,
and
means
of
deliverance, but would'have them
exercife
their
faith upon
the
Media
that
was
to
come,
though many
hundred years
after;
and this exercife
of
faith was fo
pleafing
to
God,
as
it
was
the onely means ,
or
the chief means of deliverance
from
all outward affli&ions:Nay,faith
God,if
fo
be
that
they
will
relye
upon
mee,and
exercife
their faith
upon
that great
promife
of
mine, to fend
my
Son
into the world
,
as
for
their deliverance out of thefe outward
troubles
and atñi-
ó
}ions
,
it
(hall bee
but
a
little
matter
for
mee to
do
that
for
them
;
ordinarily
when
wee
are exercifed
with outward
aflli
&ions,
wee onely think
of forre natural
helps and
comforts,contrary
to
thole
particular
afftiecions
that
are
up-
on
us
, whereas
the
way
indeed for
us
to
fan;
?iiie Gods
Name
,
to
do
that
that
is
acceptable to God
when any
out-
ward
affliolion
befalls
us,
it
is
prefenrly
to
exercife
our
faith upon the great promife
of God
in
Jefus Chrif
},,
-upon
the great Covenant
of
Grace,
that God
hash made
with us
in
him
,
upon
that
great
mercy
of
God
in
fending
his Son
into
the
world
;
my
condition
is
very
fad
, and
I
am
orievoufly
afflicted,
I
but furely
that
mercy
than
would
fend
jefus
Chriflinto the world
,
that
mercy
is
enough
ro
de-
liver
mee out
of any
aff.i
Lion
,
or
at
leaf}
to
le it
to
mee;
therefore
do not onely cry
to
God when
you
are
fick
,
or
in
trouble
to
deliver
you
from
ir,
but
labour
to
exercife
faith
upon
the Covenant
of
Grace
in Chrifl ,
u;'ol
that
glorious
mercy
of
God
in
his Son
,
that
is
the
w
iv
that
Plod
wo.:
ld
have'us to fanálifie
his
Name in.
And
that
is
the
rea
on
II
z
why