A treatise of faith divided into two parts. The first showing the nature, the…A treatise of faith diuided into two parts. The first shewing the nature, the…

And seeing God hath prepared and promised such excellent privileges unto his children in this life, hence it is, that faith resteth upon his grace to receive from him whatsoever may be good and profitable for them. O how great is the goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee: ¹which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee, before the sons of men? ²Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion, ³from the strife of tongues. How excellent is thy loving kindness, O Lord; therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings. ⁴They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fullness ⟨p. 253⟩of thy house: and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures. The Lord is my shepherd, ⁵I shall not want. He shall lead his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, ⁶and carry them in this bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. What can they want,⁷ who have god to be their Father, to provide for them, and protect them; to bless them and dwell with them; to succour them, and supply them with all needful blessings spiritual and bodily, in fittest season: whose ear is open to their desires, whose compassions exceed the tenderness of a mother to her sucking babe: who hath chosen them to be his own proper good which he loveth, and keepeth in store for himself and for special use. Thou Israel art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. ⁸Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee; Thou art my servant, I have chosen the, and not cast thee away. Fear thou not, for I am with thee: