Thesauleseffeauall calling toChrift. ir,and brings molt delight withit ; there is no life underheaven more free from tedioufneffe, and bath moreeafe and liberty than aChriltian coude; let amans condition bee what it will bee, faith makes a mans life moft eafie : í ufe to compare the conditions of them that want faith, to the cart that isfrom his wheeles; they drawheavily, and they are i1great extremitie, and they tug and toile,but it will not be drawne withany eak . or good fucceffe : fo unfaithful) foules finck in their forrowes upon every occafion, and their lives are tedious and wearifome; but faith fers the cart upon the wheeles, and carries all away eafily and comfortably : you mutt know thus much, it is the hardeft matter in the world to get faith, whenwe want it but it is the moft eafieft Iife in all the world, and bath the molt delight in all the world, if wee havebut skill toufe it wifely whenwe have it ,and it gives molt eafe and quiet to a man in all his converfation : and this faith do.h twowayes ; pirft,becaufe faith hash a skill, and a kinde offlight, toput over all cares toan- other, that whereas theunfaithful) heart beares all the cares in himielfe, and fo he finckes under them ; this is the cunningof faith, to put over all toanother : wee take up the croffe, but faith hurls all the care on Chrift, as Matth. a x. 29. Take myyoke uponyou, andyou/ball faderill toyour foules; faithmakes a man reft,and goe oneafily in a Chriftian courfe, and all his troubles arcremo- ved,and therefore he maygoe on eafily in a Chri- ftian courfe; all histroubles are removed, there- Ddd 2 fore 39t
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