Seven treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, leading…Seuen treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holie Scriptures, leading…

And yet this is not without the most wise providence of God, who disposeth all these weaknesses of theirs to their good, that they may be humbled the more in themselves, and rise to their faith again; and to the glory of God, who bringeth back again, those who were almost in their own feeling, §Eat the brink of hell. The same I say of other lets which they may be overtaken by, as of their losing of the sense of their faith,¹ through neglecting the means whereby it ought to have been preserved; or by slightness in the use of them; or by letting loose the heart after some vanity or worldliness, which it lusted after; or being disquieted, and unsettled otherwise: this is not their refuge to say, we must be content to go without it: and it is impossible to hold it: when we have bestowed all our travail, we have done it but in ⟨p. 68⟩vain:² But as they espy their weakness, so let them remember how they have fallen, §Facknowledge it to the shame of the evil heart, and so recover that one thing which is amiss, and hold their confidence as before, and let not the whole frame, and well ordered course of their life be broken off for that one thing:³ as he that hath ache in his teeth, or a wound in his leg, doth not neglect the health of his whole body for that, but seeketh the redress of that one, that the whole may be in good case, as it was before.

And yet this is not without the most wise prouidence of God, who disposeth all these weaknesses of theirs to their good, that they may be humbled the more in themselues, and rise to their faith againe; and to the glorie of God, who bringeth backe againe, those who were almost in their owne feeling, §Eat the brinke of hell. The same I say of other lets which they may bee ouertaken by, as of their losing of the sense of their faith,¹