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HOLY
FORTITUDE,
tsERM
XXX1T.
Jesus
is
your
salvation.
A lively
faith
gives
divine
cou-
rage. Faith
is
a
noble
shield
to
ward off
fear,
and
our
helmet
is
the
hope
of
salvation.
Take
heed
Of
defiling
your
souls with sensuality
Take
heed
of
any
false biassés on
your spirit, and wrong
designs
in
your
actions, lést
you bring frèsh
guilt
upon
your
consciences.
Guilt
will
create fear; and
fill
the soul
with
a
perplexing
tumult
of
thoughts. But
when the
ter-
rors
of
this world
assault
you on
°every
side,
reproaches
ánd
threatenings, the
frowns
of your
friends,
and
the
rage
of
your
enemies, you may be
all serene and peaceful
within,
while
you maintain a sacred
consciousness
of
soul,
that
you 'have been seeking the
lightof
truth, and
pursuing the
path
of
duty.
When
I
cari say,
God
is
my
witness
that I
am
sincerely
labouring
in his service,
when
I
can look up
to heaven,
though
my
friends scorn
me,
and
say, my
record
is
on high
;
I
may
imitate the faith
and
courage
of
Job
in his
best hours, and
leave
all
my
interests
in the
hand of
my
God.
Let our
faith be
active then,
and our
conscience clear,
that
we
may
read
our
title to
all
the promises,
and apply
them to
our
own case with courage
and
assurance.
The God of
hope
will
fill
us
with
all
joy
and peace
'in
believing
"'
Rom.
xv.
13:
The
covenant'
of
grace
is
a blessed
treasury
:
There
is
armour
of
defenee
to be
found against
every
assault and
danger.
If
the promises
of
the
covenant
be
ours,
we
shall
be
secured
of
a
happy
final issue
of
all
our
suffer-
ings
:
"
All things shall work
together
for
our
good,"
Rom.
viii. 28.
"
If
God
be
for
us,
who shall be
against
us
?"
verse
31.
If
we
behold
God
engaged on
our
side,
we
may defy a legion
of
adversaries
in the name
of
the
Lord
our God." Thou
art
my glory, says
the Psalmist,
and
my shield,
and the lifter up
of
my
head,"
Ps.
iii.
3.
The
little
word,
my,
shews his
own'interest
in his
God,
and then
he can grow brave in the
very
centre
ofa
thou-
sand deaths and dangers.
i"
I
will
not
be
afraid
of
ten
thousands
of people that
have set themselves against
me
round about,"
verse
6:
II.
Get a
large and general acquaintance with the pro-
mises
of
the gospel
*,
that
in every special
time
of
need
A
little
book
published lately
by
Mr.
Samuel
Clark, of
St.
Albans;,
is
of excellent
use
for
this purpose.
The
title of it
is
`°
A
Collection
of
the
Promises of
Scripture, under their proper
Heads."
1720.