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…

the Lord expels not his suspensive, rather then diffident admiration with signs and wonders, as he did Gideons doubt,¹ or his stiff-necked Fore-fathers distrust. By what means then? By the present calamities which had seized upon the Cities of Judah, and that very place, wherein his late purchased possession lay. This is the very scale of Jeremiahs assurance,² from the Lords own mouth. Thus saith the Lord, like as I have brought all this great plague upon this people; so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them. And the fields shall be possessed in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast, &c. The depth of misery is usually made an argument to move the Lord with speed to hear and send help: and this is grounded upon the promise of God to give audience to his children,³ when in their distresses they remember themselves, and seek his face. Awake, why steepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgetteth ⟨p. 345⟩our affliction and oppression? Attend unto my cry, ⁴for I am brought very low, deliver me from my persecutions: for they are stronger then I. What, that as we feel God to be true in his threats, so we may be assured he will not fail of his promises.

the Lord expels not his suspensiue, rather then diffident admiration with signes and wonders, as hee did Gideons doubt,¹ or his stiffe-necked Fore-fathers distrust. By what meanes then? By the present calamities which had seized vpon the Cities of Iudah, and that very place, wherein his late purchased possession lay. This is the very scale of Ieremiahs assurance,² from the Lords owne mouth. Thus saith the Lord, like as I haue brought all this great plague vpon this people; so will I bring vpon them all the good that I haue promised them. And the fields shall be possessed in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate without man or beast, &c. The depth of miserie is vsually made an argument to moue the Lord with speed to heare and send helpe: and this is grounded vpon the pomise of God to giue audience to his children,