A treatise of mans imaginations Showing his natural evil thoughtsA treatise of mans imaginations Shewing his naturall euill thoughts

Sect. 5. Of mans thought of distrust.

The fourth evil thought concerning God, is, a thought of distrust, thus framed in the mind;: God doth not regard me; God will not help me; God will not be merciful unto me: This thought made entrance unto the fall of our first parents: for first Eve looked upon the fruit, & saw that it was beautiful, and then entered into her heart a thought of distrust after this manner; It may be it is not true which god hath said to us concerning this fruit, and it may be God regardeth us not as we think ⟨p. 87⟩he doth, in that he denieth us this fruit; here upon her will and her affections were carried to the breaking of Gods commandment, and so she sinned by disobedience, and Adam also sinned. When the people of Israel murmured in the wilderness a Moses sinned a sin for he was debarred entrance into the land of Canaan:¹ Now what was Moses sin for both he & Aron ^bprayed to the Lord, and checked the people saying hear oh ye rebels, &c. And at Gods commandment he brought water out of the rock? Surely his sin was secret even inward unbelief and distrust in Gods promise, for when he smote the rock, he might think thus with himself; it may be that God will not now give water out of the ⟨p. 88⟩rock; & this seems the more probable because he went beyond his commission in smiting thrice upon the rock, when God bad him only to speak ^cunto it. This evil thought takes hold of religious David also:^d I said in mine hast I am cast out of thy sight, as though he should say, Heretofore I have found Favour with God, but now in mine adversity I am utterly rejected: Again,