The Soul's Conflict with Itself

One main evidence of true trust in God is here in the text, we see here it ¹hath a quieting and stilling virtue, for it stays the soul upon the fullness of Gods love joined with his ability to supply our wants and relieve our necessities, though faith doth not (at the first especially) so stay the soul, as to ⟨p. 345⟩take away all suspicious fears of the contrary: There be so many things in trouble that press upon the soul, as hinder the joining of God and it together, yet the prevailing of our unbelief is taken away, the reign of it is broken. If the touch of Christ in his abasement on earth drew virtue from him, certain it is that faith cannot touch Christ in heaven, but it will draw a quieting and sanctifying virtue from him, which will in some measure stop the issues of an unquiet spirit; the Needle in the Compass will stand North, though with some trembling.

One maine evidence of true trust in God is here in the text, wee see here it ¹hath a quieting and stilling vertue, for it stayes the soule upon the fulnesse of Gods love joyned with his ability to supply our wants and releeve our necessities, though faith doth not (at the first especially) so stay the soule, as to ⟨p. 345⟩take away all suspitious feares of the contrary: There be so many things in trouble that presse upon the soule, as hinder the joyning of God and it together, yet the prevailing of our unbeliefe is taken away, the raigne of it is broken. If the touch of Christ in his abasement on earth drew vertue from him, certain it is that faith cānot touch Christ in heaven, but it will draw a quieting and sanctifying vertue from him, which will in some measure stop the issues of an unquiet spirit; the Needle in the Compasse will stand North, though with some trembling.

1. 19. It stills and quiets the soul upon good grounds.9. It stills and quiets the soule upon good grounds.