CaAP . I. upon the EpifUe of JAM l! s. VE R. s.8. 'That qod thin/zeth the !eaft mercy t~o goodfo~ unbeleewrs: He thinkethnothing too·go~d/fJr jatth, and al!Y thtng too good _for un– belief. 'Tis obfervable mthe days of Chnfis Bel11, that ((,ut hw:ts never fruftrate, he never let it pafs wit~?ut fame effeCl; nay, fometirnes he offereth all that you can wilb for, Matth. r 5'. z8. Great uthy frJith, be it to thee even M thou wilt: Faith. giveth Chrifi content, and th~refore.he will be fure to give the Be.leever content; crave what you will, and he will give it. But o,n the con– trary Let not that man think that he foal! receive any thiug : 53 .How' are the bowels of mercy fhr~.;mk up at the fight of unbelief! 'Bdeevers £hall haveall things, and you nothing. 5· Fromthac[FromtheLord.J That the fruit of our prayers ob[ervat: 5 • is received from the hands of Chrift, he is the middle perfon, by whom God conveyeth bleffings to us, and we return dury to him ; SeeJob. r4. 13· whatfoeverye fhatl .uk_ the Father •in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son: Mark, '• M'rum . • * I will do it ; Chr\areceivet~ the power to convey the. bleffing, vu~qJte ~fau we muft .ulz. the Father, but lt cometh to us through htm: And quua patri ex– all this. not that the Father might be txcluded, but glorified. We hibeatur· petitio are unworthy to converfe with the Father, therefore Chrift is the ~d:r: films exauM d . G d . 1 'fi cl h . h h lat cmn cx1 true e 1ator ; o ts g on e w en we come to htm t mug audlti ad et.m ·Chrift: In times of~n~wledg God ~~uld have your thoughts in pertine:t cui~·(t prayer to be more dtfimtl and expltctre; you mufl: come to the pomcta petit'iQ Father in the Sons name, and look for all through the Spirit: And Si~11on de as the Spirit worketh as Chrifts Spirit, to glonfie the Son, Joh. Ca!lta lib, 13. 16. + So the Son, he willgive to glorifie the Father; What an cap. z.. excellent ground· of hope and·confidt:nce have we, when we re- .fletl: npon thefe three things in prayer, t:he Fathers lo'l!Je, the Son~ merit, and the Spirits power ? No man cometh to·the Son but by the Fathe1·, Job. 6. 65. No man cometh to the Father 6ut by the Son, Job. 14- 6. N<;> man i& united to the Son but by tbe Holy Ghoft : therefore do we read of the unity ofthe Spirit;Eph.4.! 3~ - Verfe 8. A double mindedman i& unflable inall his way.r•. I .He proceedeth to a general confideration of the unhappinefs of~ Unbdeevers, and he faith two things of them, That they are double mmded, andunftable : Poffibly there may be afecret Anti– t~efis, or ~ppofirion, between rhe temper of thefe men and what• . behad fa1d before of God ; God giveth d.7rr.il~ with a fingle. H 3 - -· mi'!_'lc; ,
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