Now apply this to your selves; when you are in any distress, know that he that made the heavens and the earth, can give a being to all these things: Isaiah 50.10.1 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servants, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his GOD. He that walketh in darkness, and hath no light; let that be thy case, that every thing is desperate, thou seest not a jot of light, nor spark of hope, yet trust in the Name of Jehovah, he can make light, when there is none; a man that hath no grace in his heart, let him trust in Jehovah, that saith in his heart, I would I could be rid of such a lust, and that I could keep holy the Sabbath, but I have nothing in me, my heart is empty of all; (this is the complaint often even of those that have grace:) why, if there be no light, no grace, yet he can work it; and so Paul applies that in Gen. 1. there was darkness and no light,2 to himself and them, in 2 Cor. 4.5.3 He that commanded light to shine out of darkness, &c. I, says he, and we Gentiles were in darkness, and had no light; yet God commanded light to shine into our hearts, and into mine, the darkest of all the rest. So learn to apply the same to thy self; he that is in darkness, and hath no light, yet let him ⟨p. 109⟩trust in the Name of Jehovah; beloved, that is faith. If you should expect no more of God, than a man can do, or a creature can do, it is not worthy the name of faith: as this is proper only to God, to give being to things that are not; so it is the property of faith, when things are not, to believe in the name of Jehovah: therefore, there would thy faith be seen; and as for thy self, so for the Churches also, you see now, […] how low an ebb they are brought, and yet, they cannot be lower than the estate of the Israelites was in Egypt, and when they were in captivity; yet consider, that that Jehovah, who is the Lord of being, is able to raise the Churches, and to give a new being to them: Isai. 6.13.4 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall return, and shall be eaten; as a Teil-tree, and as an Oak, whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves; so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof:
Now apply this to your selves; when you are in any distresse, know that he that made the heavens and the earth, can give a being to all these things: Esay 50.10.1 Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servants, that walketh in darknesse, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the LORD, and stay upon his GOD. He that walketh in darknesse, and hath no light; let that be thy case, that every thing is desperate, thou seest not a jot of light, nor spark of hope, yet trust in the Name of Iehovah, hee can make light, when there is none; a man that hath no grace in his heart, let him trust in Iehovah, that saith in his heart, I would I could be rid of such a lust, and that I could keep holy the Sabbath, but I have nothing in me, my heart is emptie of all; (this is the complaint often even of those that have grace:) why, if there be no light, no grace, yet he can work it; and so Paul applyes that in Gen. 1. there was darknesse and no light,2 to himselfe and them, in 2 Cor. 4.5.3 He that commanded light to shine out of darknesse, &c. I, sayes he, and we Gentiles were in darknesse, and had no light; yet God commanded light to shine into our hearts, and into mine, the darkest of all the rest. So learne to apply the same to thy selfe; he that is in darknesse, and hath no light, yet let him ⟨p. 109⟩trust in the Name of Iehovah; beloved, that is faith. If you should expect no more of God, than a man can doe, or a creature can doe, it is not worthy the name of faith: as this is proper only to God, to give being to things that are not; so it is the propertie of faith, when things are not, to beleeve in the name of Iehovah: therefore, there would thy faith be seene; and as for thy selfe, so for the Churches also, you see now, 〈…〉 how low an ebbe they are brought, and yet, they cannot be lower than the estate of the Israelites was in Aegypt, and when they were in captivitie; yet consider, that that Iehovah, who is the Lord of being, is able to raise the Churches, and to give a new being to them: Isai. 6.13.4 But yet in it shall be a tenth, and it shall returne, and shall be eaten; as a Teile-tree, and as an Oke, whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves; so the holy seed shall bee the substance thereof:
- 1Isai. 50.10.
- 2Gen. 1.
- 32 Cor. 4.5.
- 4Isai. 6.13.
