Vpa:IoHTNEs. beforetheenemy : Forin the L'ordthereis power to helpe, or to call:' downe; vtmazi.Ah ~~~h~~;~: beleeved the Prophet: So that you fee, Fatth want Javing had a great worke in him r But, faith he, lam grace. notable to byre any more. That is no matter, ( faid the Prophet) go with thofe thou haft; and he was content to do fo, he went on. to the Battle; And in the next Ve~fe, he was encouraged to go on :· It was a ~reat worke · of Faith, to fend backe halfe his Army,and to go on fo much encouraged notwithftanding; yet after, in the fame Chapter; you fl1all find, though Faith went thus farre in him, ·and carJ:i .. ed him through fo difficult a cafe, yet it had · not its perfed woi·ke: For immediately after he had overcome the Edomites, he fet up their Gods, and a P-rophet comes and tells Jaim, ~mttziah~ art thou fo foolijh, to ftt tJp the GO:f!S efthe Edomites, that were n1t itUe to, deliver their owne people ~ Saith the Text, Hte ' would not heArken to the Profhet, Verfe ~~~ lmt hade:h'im ceAft, and the Prophet ceafed. So you fee· Faithhad a worke in him, 3:nd a great worke, hut herein he had an unfound heart~ as it is faid; Verfe z. Ha walked 6efore the L o R D , in the way of his Fathers, 6~t net · with a perflf! heart. And you fhall finde this very frory, that I haue now named., . brought in as an evidence that his ·~ heart , was not ·found, that his · Faith ·had not a · perfelt w0rke : S'o farre his Faith went, thus ,. . farrehe d.id.byvertueofthat Faiththathehad, . but·
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