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Other
tentations
concerning
fitith,as
frered.
5
S
7
our fight,like the
fire
vnder the afhes, or the
Sunne
under
a
cloud,as before
I
haue
Though
therefore
«vee
find in
vs
much
i
nconfiancie
and
doubting,
yet
let not
Satan
perfwade
vs
that
thefe
are
of
the nature and properties
of
our
faith.,and
that
therefore our
faith
is
not
true
but
temporary
falte
and counterfait;
for
this
incont}ancie and
doubting,
proceedeth
not
from faith
and
from
the
fpiritual and
regenerate part,but
from
the flefh
and
the parr vnregen
erate
;
and
therefore howfoeuer
it
is
affaul-
ted,
and fometimes foiled by
thcm,yet
in
it
owns
nature it
is
true,certaine and
conflant.
Secondly,he will fuggefi
that
the
Saints
mentioned
in
the §.Seci;2.
Scriptures,had moll certain
&
firong faith,
and
in
exceeding
Satans
great
mcafare,
that
they
brought
forth
continually
mot}
no-
rationgro,rn-
table
fruits
thereof,&
were
not
fubiect
to
fuch
infirmities and
dcd
on
the
doubtings
as
we
leek
in
our
felues.
To
which
we
are
to an-
firong
faith
fweee,that this
tentation
is
full
ofvntruth,and
hath
no found
Gods
chi
dregs
part
in
it:
for
fir(
},we are
to
allure
our felues,that
they
fcl
into
allfvvered.:
manifold
doubtings,
and
were
fubie61
unto
innumerable
in-
firmities and corruptions,which
are
not
fpecified
in
the
book
of
God
:
neither
was
it
fit
or expedient
that
it
fhould bee
a
regiflerofal
humane infirmities,and
oftheir
manifold
falles,
but'bnelie that
fome
fhould bee recorded
for our
warning,
that
wee
might
more warilie
watch ouer our
felues,
let}
wee
fhould
fall
into
the like finncs;and
for
our comfort
alto
when
wee
are
fallen,
in
that
our
cafe is
common
with Gods
dea-
refl
children; in which
refpe&
the
Scriptures
are
not
wan-
ting. Lookevpón
Abraham
the
father
ofthe
faithful,
whole
faith
was
fo
firóng,that
he
aboue hope
beleeuedvnder hope,
and
you
(hall fee
that
his
faith
notwithianding,was
fome-
times
(haken with
diffidence
and doubting;as
when
dit}ru-
fling
Gods
gratious
promifes made
vnto
him,
and
nor'
te-
lling
upon his
al
mightie=power,he
was
content
to take
veto
him
Hagar
his
maid, and
commit
finne
with her,
that
fo
by
his
owRme
deui.ce
he
might
make
good
Gods
promife,and
ob.
taine
the bleffed feede,
as
though
God
could
not
performe
that
which
he
had
fpoken,
vnleffe
he helped
himby
fuchvno
lawful'
!manes.
$owher
vas
thefirebgthand
conflancie
of