The Soul's Conflict with Itself

So then, when we are in any danger, we see whither to go for salvation, even ¹to him that is nothing else but salvation; but then we must trust in him (as David doth) and conceive of him as salvation, that we may trust in him. If we will not trust in salvation, what will we trust in? and if salvation it self cannot ⟨p. 467⟩save us, what can? out of salvation there is nothing but destruction, which those that seek it any where out of God, are sure to meet with. How pitiful then is their case, who go to a destroyer for salvation? that seek for help from hell?

So then, when we are in any danger, we see whither to goe for salvation, even ¹to him that is nothing else but salvation; but then we must trust in him (as David doth) and conceive of him as salvation, that we may trust in him. If we will not trust in salvation, what will we trust in? and if salvation it self cannot ⟨p. 467⟩save us, what can? out of salvation there is nothing but destruction, which those that seeke it any where out of God, are sure to meet with. How pittifull then is their case, who goe to a destroyer for salvation? that seeke for help from hell?

1. 1Whither to fly in our troubles.Whither to flye in our troubles.

Here also we see to whom to return ¹praise in all our deliverances, even to the God of our salvation. The virgin Mary was stirred up to magnify the Lord, but why? Her spirit rejoiced in God her Saviour. Whosoever is the instrument