~ER· 2 z' Triumph of Faith. 3 r r Ifai. xxxix. I 4· Mine Eyes j ait with looking up- • ~ward, 0 Lqrd, I am opprijfed; yet praying argueth Believing, Lord, undertake for me. We ~ muil: think Chrifi:'~ Senfe of Comforts was ebb and low when he wept, cried Heb. v. 7· and was forfaken of God; yet then his Faith is doubled, a~ the Cable of an Anchor is doubled when the Storm is more than ordinary, My God, My God: '.IJavid chideth his 'caft-down Sottl, -when there's no Glimpfe,of Comfort, with fhong FaitJl, Pjat. xlii. 1 r. 'Hope thou in God, for I (hatt yet praife him. In fwimrning ~ell, the lefs natura] Help~ !O hold up_the Chin-and ?ead, thy greater Wave, 1f the Swimmer be carried ftrongly thorow, as it were in Defpight of the Stream, there's the more Art: Art may countervalue Strength, and f<)metimes fViJdom is better tloan Strength : }he lefs Comfort, if yet you believe at Midnight, when ~he Spirit is overwhelmed, the more is the Art of Believing: When an inward Princ,iple is weak, we help it with Externals: That the Child muit be allured with Rewar'ds, as with Apples, a Penny, or the like, it is becaufe his Sight an~ Defire of the Beauty and Excellency of Lea-rning, a~d. Arts, is but weak or nothing at all: Senfe and Comforts are external Subfidies and Hdps to Faith; and thefe that cannot believe, but upon Feelin~s, and Senfe of the Sweetnefs ,~f Comforts, are he1;~e argued to have weak and broken Inclinations an'a Principles of Faith: The more Freenefs ar.d Ingenuity of Spirit that is _in believing, the more Strength of Faith·, for that 1s moft connatural that bath leafl: Need of Hire: You need not give Hire, Reward or Buds to the Mother's AffeEtimn 'to ,work upon her, and caufe her to love h~· Child: U 4 Love
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