Thesouk' leiheadcallinn to Chrift, the world, and hee feeth more certainty in the good ofthe promife, than in all the good things here below; and therefore hewill rather lofe all than the promife, and will rather truft to the goodneflê of God in the promife, than to any thing elfe befïdes; though riches bee rever fo great, and honours never fo glorious, yet the faithfùll foule knowes that the world promifeth much, and performes little, and it coufens us; but theLord is true in all his pro:nifes, andwhat he hath prorrifed, the foule beleeves : therefore faithhe, though myfenfe, and tafte, andall faile, and ifmany fòrrowes and miferies come, yet I will ref} upon the promife ; for there is a greater good in the promife,tban in all theworld betides: to this I may adde theother, which I call thedill. couraged hypocrite, as there are too many of them in thefe dayes, fucla as heretofore have car- ried a faire fayle in the wayes ofgodlineffe ., but when his honour and credit dies, hee goes away: forehave died for griefe, they are all to be refer- red to this ground; fo long as the winde Jailed he flayed it ont, but nowhee is not able to hold up his head,unleffe hebe liftedup by the chinne, and by thecomfort ofhis profeflion : but he that is agracious man, though all the frame ofHeaven and Earth flagger, yet he is fupportedand beares uphimfelfe upon the promife, it it bee a laving worke : I know he may flagger, yet hee recovers himfelfe, and at laft lifts up himfelfe upon the promife. A skilful]fwimmer ufethhis bladders, but yet if they faile, hee recovershimfelfe upon Ppp 3. the. 481
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