VJ ll s.22. ..An Expojition, with Notes accept it. When ·jealdoGe maketh the-h.eart faint, ' and the -hands fee~le, left we lhould drive on heavily, Faith lhewetb the Soul an .Ang~l th4~ft~ndeth ~t the Attar withfweet·inceiife, Rev.8. 3, 4• Duty tlommg Immediately out ofour hands would yield an Ill favor ~herefor~ Chrifi intercepceth it in the pallage, and fo 'ds p~rfumed -m the hands of a Mediator. Aglin, are you difcouraged with ·weaknefs? Faith will tt:ply, Theu art meilk_., ·but GtJd will inable • . thee_: 'fis an advantage, not a di(couragement; to be- ~eak -in our - Ephef.6. IO, ·fdves, "'' ~h4t 'we ·may he ftrong in the Lord, and in the po"Jper ofhis * ·might. When the bu~ket is empty, it can bethe better filled ouc :. Cor.u.xo of the Ocean: Paulfmh, *When I am weak__, then am I flrong. There is Qo heart fo de2d,bm God can quicken ic,and he is willing : ~ris faid, I Chron. I 5. 26. Godhelped the Levites , when the work was bodily ; and we ate lefs apt to be indifpofed for bodily labour: God helped them by difcharging their laffimde: So certainly he-wil muck more give inward fl:rengch, more love, joy, hope, which are the fl:rength of the Soul, N ehem. 8. to, Again, if the: heart be lazy and backward, or fl:ick at eafe and pleafure, Faith can prefent the glory of the reward, the pkafures ar Gods right hand, &c. 3· It 6reak;th the force ofoppojite propenjionj; if the world fl:andeth in the way ofduty,Fa;th overcometh tbe world, 1 'loh.5-4- P.mlyby bringing Chrifl: .into -the ·combate, partlyby fpirirual Replies and Arguments. Reafon telleth us, We muft be for our[elves: Faith tdlethus, We muft be for God. - Reafon faith, lf I takf this courfe, I jh~tll u111do m] feif: Faith) by looking within the vail, feerh 'tis the 0nly way to fave all, 2 Cor. 4· 1 5, t 6, 17. Reafon prefenteth the trcafures ofE rry pt, and Faith t·he recumpence ofnward. From hence are thofe btckerings and coumerbuffs whichaBdeever fedeth fometimes within himfelf. Well then; out of all this we may infer, I. That we had need get faith; there is as great a neceffiry of faith as of life; 'cis the Life ofour lives, and the Soul ot our fouls; the primum mobile, the firff ' pin, that movethall the wheels of obedienc~ ; li,ke the blood an_d· fpirits which run through the whole body ~ There is by the_ordt- · natiori of God as great ·a necefficy of faith as ?t ChriH; wha~good ~ill adeep Well do mWithout a .bucket? He that hach a rnmd to ; work would not be without his tools i and who would be·with- · outjalthj tb~t maket-b confciem:e-of duty .?·: .. 2.~ /kCl: itin .a}l f-OUr ; works; no works'ar~ g·ood)till-fltitb work Wfth'tht:m~ they are·.not · _ · ·· · -·· · ·~· accept-:
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