favitig Faith. i65 haft no Money, or Price; yet come here, eat and drinkabundantly, tho' never fò miferable, never fo' wretched, fo finful, they are given freely ; freely therefore receive. Thou forelorn, curled, miferable Sinner haft as good Right to the Waters of Life (in Refpe& of the free Offer) as the holieft Saint hath, Ifai. Iv. 2. They are given to thee, not becaufe thou be- ieveft, but that thoumayft believe,: and be holy ; receive or defpife them as thou wiltff, only this, thine they are ; and ifyoufollow lying Vanities, youfortakeyour own Mercies, (3.) Con- fider you are called to come withfull Affurance to the Throne of Grace,-nothing doubting ; you are not only allowed to hope, or defire, or believe a Pofíibility of Salvation; but you are allowed, nay, commanded to believe the cer- tainty thereof, Heb. iv. 16. and iii. 6. (t.) The Ground of this Confidence is wholly in the Lord Jefus, and without us, and not at all either in whole or in Part in our ,felves. j eonfefs, were our Hopes of Confidence bot- tom'd any Way upon any Work in us, it were no Wonder our Faith should Bagger, accor- ding to the Foundation it were built upon But now, all the Grounds of our Hope and Confidence being in God's Promife, the more confident and aífur'd you be, the more you glorify God, and the greater Refpeayou put on the Grace of God; and he that doubretl faith upon the Matter, That the Lord loth: L3. rion l
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