340 BR A N C. H. Chrift . is the King of Peace, and the GODof Love He is the ample Branch, and the fruitful Vine. Doubting Soul! There is nothing terrifying in thefe Chara&ers ; nothing to make thee harbour hard Thoughts of Chrift, however hard thy Thoughts may be of thyfelf. Unbelief alone feparates thee from thy GOD, holds thy Nature in Darknefs refpeEting his free Salvation, and affords Satana Cover, from whence, with his fiery Darts, he may annoy and perplex thy Soul. Always remember, that thy very Nature is thy worft Enemy, the Devil thy worft Counfellor, and the World thy worft Friend. Continue, therefore, confiant in Prayer .(for Prayer is the Voice of Faith ; and Faith and Prayer are as correlative as the Mind and the Body) ; and fay with Auftin, " Lord, deliver me from the evil Man myfelf ;" over-rule the Counfels of Satan, like the Counfel of Abitbopbel, * to his own Ruin; and banifh the Fr-iendfhip and Love of the World, thine Enemy and mine, from my inmoft Soul ! GOD (hall fend thee á good Deliverance. Thou /halt be like a Tree planted by the Rivers of Water, . that bringeth forth his Fruit in his Seen ; thy Leaf afo !hall not wither, and whatfoever thole doeft, it 'hall. profper : {- Thou 'halt not fee when Heat cometh, neither !halt ceafe from yielding Fruit ; and thy Waters 'hall illitefrom the Sanguary, p for ever and ever.- z Sam. xv. 31. and xvii. 14. fi Pfalm i. ;. Jer. xvii. 8. Ezek. xlvii. tz.. S'I'AR.
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