412 The true Remedy againi Vol. II. SERMONCLXIII. The true Remedy againft the troublesof life. Joxx XIV. I. Let not your heart be troubled : ye believe in God ; believe alfo in me. The third FROM thefe words I propofed to fhew, what Force andVirtue there is in Sermon ors the Remedy r this Text. y p opofed by our Saviour, to mitigate and allay our Troubles ; and I told you that our Saviour here prefcribes a double Remedy. Firfl, Faith in God, the great Creator and Governour of the World. Secondly, Faith in himfeif, theSon of God and Saviour of Men. I have fpo- ken to the fìr/t, and have likewife entred upon the Second, And here I propounded to fhew, what farther Confderations of Com- fort and Support Faith in Chrift, and the firm Belief of the Chriftian Religion do afford to good Men, for the mitigating and allaying of their greateft Fears and Troubles. And I mentioned five. I. Faith in Chrift gives us full affurance of Immortality, and the Rewards of another World. II. It promifeth to every fincere Chriftian, the inward aflìftance and fupport of God's Holy Spirit. Thus far I have gone. I nowproceed, III. It affures us ofthe fpecial Efficacy of our Prayers with God, either for our deliverance fromTrouble, or for the aids and fupports of his grace under it. Now concerning the great Efficacy of our Prayers with God, there are feveral very particular and remarkable Promifes and Declarations in the New Teflament. Match. 7. 7. Aft, and it fhall be givenyou: feek, and ye Pall find: knock, and it (hall be opened unto you. Matth. 21. 22. And all things whatfoever ye ¡hall aft in prayer, believing, ye fhall receive. John 15. 7. Ifye abide in me, and my words abide inyou, ye (hall aft what ye will, and it ¡hall be done untoyou. But then he directs us to put our Petitions to God in his name, as the way to make them prevalent, john 14. 13, 14. And whatfoever ye (hall aft in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. Ifye (hall aft any thing in my name, I will do it. And Chap. ad. 23, 24. he repeats this Promife again for their fupport and comfort under the tribulations which they fhould endure. And in that dayye ¡hall aft me nothing. Verily verily I fay unto you, Whatfoever ye ¡Pall aft the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto ye have afked nothing in my name : aft, andye fhall receive, that your joy maybefull. And again, ver. 26, 27. At that day ye (ball aft in my name : and I fay not unto you, that I willpray the Father for you : for the Father himfei loveth you. He affures them of God's merciful inclination towards them and if it would add any thing to their com- fortable affurance of having their Prayers heard, he could have told them, that he would pray the Father for them. St.James particularly comforts the Chriflians under their tryals upon this Confideration, that God is ready to give Wifdom and Strength to demean our felves as we ought under fufferings, if we heartily beg it of him, James I. 2, 3, 4, 5. My brethren, count it all joy when yefall into divers temptations, knowing this, that the trying of your faith worked, patience : but let patience have her perfefl work, that ye may be piled and entire, want- s ing
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