The Soul's Conflict with Itself

Again, labour to fit the promise to ¹every condition thou art in; there is no condition but hath a promise suitable, therefore no condition but wherein God may be trusted, because his truth and goodness is always the same; And in the promise, look both to the good promised, and to the faithfulness and love of the promiser; It is not good to look upon the difficulty of the thing we have a promise against, but who promiseth it, and for whose sake, and ⟨p. 307⟩so see all good things in Christ made over to us.

Againe, labour to fit the promise to ¹every condition thou art in; there is no condition but hath a promise sutable, therefore no condition but wherein God may bee trusted, because his truth and goodnesse is alwayes the same; And in the promise, looke both to the good promised, and to the faithfulnesse and love of the promiser; It is not good to looke upon the difficulty of the thing wee have a promise against, but who promiseth it, and for whose sake, and ⟨p. 307⟩so see all good things in Christ made over to us.

1. 15. By fitting the promise to every condition of our lives.

We should labour likewise for a single heart to trust in God only; there is ¹no readier way to fall then to trust equally to two stays, whereof one is rotten, and the other sound; therefore as in point of doctrine we are to rely upon Christ only, and to make the Scriptures our rule only; So in life and conversation, what ever we make use of, yet we should enjoy and rely upon God only; for either God is trusted alone or not at all, those that trust to other things with God, trust not him but upon pretence to carry their double minds with less check.