298 '!'he Trial and · SER: ~ t from theWolf; but the wjndofthe Spirit, cloth not alw_ays enact the Soul to b:Iieve; they are not in an tll Cafe, who wreftle wtth Unbelief, and find the Heart and take it, in the Ways of doubting, and Terrors ; as feeling that believing is a Motion upon the Mount, and fomewhat violent : Facile and connatural AEts canoot be fupernatural Ath of Faith:' 'Tj sno bad Sign to complain of a low ebb Sea, and ot neither Moon-light, nor Star-light. 2. 'Tis impoffible they can fubmit to give the Glo-ry of believing to God, in whofe Heart there's a rotten Principle deftrutli ve of Faith, and that is an ambitious HumourofieekingGlory from Men, .7o!J. v. 44· Little Faith there's' in Kings Courts, Fa.ith dwelleth not in a high Spirit. 3· Such as take Religion by the Hand ~pon faHe and bafl:ard Motives, as the Summer of the Gofpel, and Fame, Eaie, Gain, Honour, cannot believe: A thorny Faith is no Faith, Jv!atth. xiii. 2.2. A carnal Man's Faith mufl be true to its own Principle3, and muft ly level with Externals ; fo as Court, EafC', the \Vor1d, and its iweet Adjuncts, are a me.afuring Line to a rotten rooterl Faith, neithel' ]onr.er nor broader than Time, it goeth not on~ Sp;;1 Length within the Ljfts ofEt~rnity. 4· Fan.. cy cannot be Faith ; fuch as have not G~{pet ){nowJedp;e of Chrift, cannot believe ; but mufi: do as the ·Traveller, who unawares fetteth his Foot on a Serpent in the Way, and fuddenly frarteth backward, fix Step~ for one, eis ta opifo Job. vi. 66. So do they that fancy all the Gojpet to be a carnal or a moral Difcourfe. 5. Thole cannot have Faith, in whofe Heart the qofpellieth above Ground, Devih and fin havmg made r~: Heart hard like the Summer Streets, Matth. x~u 19. wlth
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