Su.. t r . Triumph ofFaith ~ 9 J and towered like an high Building, as the Word js, Hab. ii. 4· And therefi)re the lifted up Man, [~nepheJ], is he that hideth himfdf in a high. Caftle ; as every unbelieving prefumptuo.us Soul bath his own Caftle, the Unbeliever bath either one OP.heJ, or high Tower or other, either the , King, riends, Rich,es, or his own W ifdom, for his God on which he refteth, betide the God that the Scripture recommendeth to us, as our only Rock and Soul Confidence : All Men on Earth live, and do all moral AC1ions., even when they go on in a wicked Life, as Slaves of Hell, to 1J)Ork att Uncteaniiefs with Greedinefs, upon fome Ground of Faith, though a moft falfe and counterfeit Faith, _that they fhall profper by evil doing, and that S1t1 !hall make them happy; fo Pfol. ~ 3· 'rhe wicked Man, [Halu rafhangh] Praif... eth the wicked Man, then he muft bdieve that Wickednefs maketh Men praife worthy, and this Belief is but prefumptuous confiding, and refting on a Tower of his own building: 1\'ow to believe in Chrift, though the Decree ' of Election be not revealed to me, is no.prefi.unption ; for I am not obliged, before I believe to know that I am elected to Gl9ry: It being one of God's Secrets not revealed in the Word, but made rnanifeft to me, After I believe, and am.feated unto the 1Jay cf Rede_:,nption : And therefore, tn a humb_le r~fting - on Chnft, though the Soul know not h1s EleC1ion, which is nut revealed in the ·word, in that Condition there can be no Pride nor Prdumption; for he is felfwife, and prefumptuous, who intrudeth into tbofe 'I'hings that he l;ath not (em, CoL ii, I 8. knoweth not that which God bath revealed, and iO which he uught to know; now the . T 3 Be~
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