400 Thesouks eeEluall calling toChrift. friends, not means, but thou haft mercy from God in Chrift, and this will anfwer all : it is bet- ter than friends, and tneanes, and all : therefore ifthou haft this, let thy heart becontented, and know that thou haft a chills part, and thy lot is falleninto a marvellous faire ground. Secondly, as faith takes off all miferies, and fuppiics the want ofthem ; fo in the fecond place faith takes away all feares for the time to come : alas,faith the foule,frìends,and mcans,andwealth aregood, but they continue not ever. V\'hat if fickneffe come ? and ifpovertie come; what fhall I doe then ? and fo the heart (hakes at the feare ofevil! : Now pray marke how faith cures all feares, and takesoff theedge ofall thole inconve- niences that may,bee brought upon a man, as in the r 12. Pfalene 7. Hefhallnot bee afraid ofany evil/ tiding,why ? forhis heart isfixed, andhe beleeveth in the Lord : for although heaven and earth may (hake, yet God, and Chrift, and theproni fe w ll. never faille, and hee cafting his heart there by faith, he mu.;t needs hold. What is it that a man may feare? we Leave thepower, and police, and maliceor thedevil! and his wicked inftruments ; 'now faithoutbids thefe, and faith refisupon the precious prcmifes of God in Jeh:s Chrift, and, . faith perfwades theheart that they haveno power butfromGod, and they cannot life that power' further than. God gives leave , and they cannot have (Lice( fie further thanGod goes with them, theycan goe nr) further than Godgives aCotn- miffron. Now, fayes faith, thatGodwhich or- ders
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