3 62 Spiritual Hearts-Safe, Then thefccondis, believe inmtal fa; as one that isthe Mediator between God! and you, now making your peace with God ; So the fecond part feems to be the prevention of an obje&ions For whenhe faith, Let not your hearts be traubled,be_'; lievein God, they might fay, Alas, (hall we believe in God,that are finful men ; The Inners inSion cry out , Who Pall dwell with confumina fire ? &c. Therefore faith Chrifl, believe alfa in me; that is, know that Godwillbeyour God, in, and for my I fake he is reconcilcd,and well plcafedwith you. Therefore in all your approaches{ to God take me with you, look up to God,pray to him,dcpend upon God through me, dill keep meas a Mediatour betweenGod and you, and this will preferve your¡ hearts in peace. The time wouldnot ferve, if l lhould-go over things particularly and in a full way ; Therefore I will touch the heads of things, and it that( be thus much ; that, e l ,5ecial meant to preferve the heart ofmanfrom exceffvefarrow, andfear,frons trouble, anddifquiet of .ffiirit, isfaith. Let not your hearts be troubled; But how fhailwc help it ? Believe in God, be- lieveaf inme. And this we (hall fee through the Scriptures, ©avid found it thus, Pfal.4o. he fpeaksto his difquicted foul; Trull in God,/will wait onhim,he is my' God. Jehofha- peat in that excellent fpeech to his Soldiers, thatwere now troubled,forthe multi- tude of their enemies againft them; Believe in god, andyou fhall profjer,believe his ¶rophets,andyou(hallbeeffablifhed;that istheway to edablilh thehcart,to believe in God,revealing himfelf in his Word.It isnoted ofMofes, in Heb.u.zy. He therefore endured all that he did, becaufe he looked onkim that is invifble. And thofethree companions ofDaniel, Dan.;. Our Clod (fay they) whomweferve is ssble to helpuse bete if be will not, we will not worfhip thygolden Image. There was matter of trou- ble and difquiet in the heart tobeput to fuc s aplunge,that theymud either worfhip, or be cad into the Furnace,heated(even times hotter; Well, this eafed them ofall trouble, and difquiet ; they knew whom they have trufled, and he was able to keep that, thatwas' committed tohim, to the coming ofChrifi'. As Saint Paulexprtffeihit, with which he alto reeledabundantly fatisfied. On theotherude, the wantofthis, bath been the cyufe of that perplexity, and difquiet that bathbeen upon the hearts ofGods fervants at all times. That was the reafon thatflbrehamwas fó didurbcd,and difquieted,in that fear ofwhat fhould bedone to him in Egypt, certainly he failed in this,in reftiug uponGod. Mofes was wondroufly troubled, when the Lord bad him go toPharaoh,and de- liver lfrael out of Egypt (faithhe) Loydfend byhim whom thou fhouldefi f nd, am aman ofaflammeringtongue: faith the Lord, 1w,t1be with shy tongue; Hebids himquiet his heart in that perplexity, and red on him that made the tongue, to be with his tongue; And bccaufethere was anotherfecrct that troubled him, the Lord knew his heart, God faith, go, the manthatfought thy life is dead ; as ifhe fhould fai', Mofesthough thou wilt not confefs it, 1 know what troublcththee, thouart afraid that the men that fought thy lifeare alive in PharaohsCourt, and that there- fore when thou comfit thither,thou (halt be executed. No, faith he, they are dead : he wouldhave him red on him, and that would revive hisheart, that he thouldnot be troubled anddifquieted. soyoumay feein other fervents of God,that this was always the reafon ofany indireEk courfe they took : 'Jacob and Rebecca, in that cafe ; why did Rebecca ufe that device in getting thebleffing with Jacob ? Becaufe the failed in her truft in God,fhe fawhow the was perplexed with the daughters of Heth, Efeuswives, and manytroubles that way ; And Ifaac was dim-Gghtcd, and had many weakneffes upon him, theknew not how he might miftake, and gave the bleffìngto the other,therefore flee devifeth a way to get the blefling,but the got ma. nyeorrows ; you know what a bard fcrvice it cod Jacob, andhowmany evils it ex- pofed him to, and all was, becaufe through fear, and difquiet of heart, he cad not himfclfupon God in his way, but they would find outways of theirown. It fhould teachus inall difquietof fpirit,to lookprincipally to the drengthningof our Doer. z. Faith is a fpc cial means to quiet the boa s Cheat. ><o. 20. 1 ri$1;t. tb. vfe.
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