The souksefamat l callinb to Quiff. 395 difpatched,and yet he was more troubled inplot- ting this evil! againft the Jewes, than Mordecai was in bearing it, becaufefaith made the lifeof cMordecai cafe and comfortable, and therefore he faith, Salvation will come, I fee not the way, nor I knownot the meanes how it fhouldbe,but falvation w ill come; therefore David in the i rg. Pfalme,75.verfe, faith, I know that all thy judo_ menti areju,fr`,and that thou ofveryfaithfulneffèhaft. affliEled mee; hee drunke nothing but mercy in that bitter cup which God had tempered for him : when the patient takes bitter pills, if they bee well fhgered, they goedowne theeafier, and the bitterneffe never troubles him : fo it is with faith,ittakesaway the harfhneífe of all inconve- niences,,which are bitterpills in themfelves, but they are fweetned and fugered over by the faithfulneffeofGod, for the goodof the foule, and therefore it goes on chefrfully : fo the iffue of the point is this, ifthe burthen of theworke be laid upon another,and if' all cares he pur over toanother, and ifall theharfhnefl . ofail troubles be taken away by faith, then fàieh_muff needs make the life ofa Chriftian ea he and eomfor- table. The fecond thing wherein theexcellencie and 2 benefit of faithappeares, is this it fils the foule ofa beleever with fullcontentment, and in truth contentment commeth through beleeving : for hee that doth partake of the mercie of God in Chrift,hecannot but partake of allthe good that is therein, and fo bee cannot but bee contented therewith :
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