The Soul's Conflict with Itself

The persuasion of this will free us from all pusillanimity, lowliness, and narrowness of spirit, when we shall think that nothing can hurt us, but it must break through God first. If God give quietness, who shall make trouble? ¹If God be with us, who can be against us? This is that which puts comfort into all other comforts, that maketh any burden light: This is always ready for all purposes: Our God is a present, and a seasonable help. All evils are at his command to be gone, and all comforts at his command to come. It is but go comfort, go peace to such a mans heart, cheer him, raise him; Go salvation, rescue such and such a soul in distress. So said and so done presently. Nay, with reverence be it spoken, so far doth God pass over himself unto us, that he is content himself to be commanded by us. Concerning the work of my hands command you me: lay ²the care and charge of that upon me. ⟨p. 560⟩He is content to be out-wrestled, and over-poured by a spirit of saith, as in Jacob, and the woman of Canaan, to be as it were at our service. He would not have us want any thing wherein he is able to help us. And what is there wherein God cannot help us? If Christians knew the power they have in heaven and earth, what were able to stand against them? What wonder is it if faith overcome the world, if it overcomes him that made the world? that faith should be Almighty, that hath the Almighty himself, ready to use all his power for the good of them to whom he hath given the power of himself unto? Having therefore such a living fountain to draw from, such a centre to rest in, having all in one, and that one Ours; why should we knock ³at any other door? we may go boldly to God now, as made ours, being bone of our bone, and flesh of our flesh. We may go more comfortably to God, then to any Angel or Saint. God in the second person hath vouchsafed to take our nature upon him, but not that of Angels. ⟨p. 561⟩Our God, and our Man, our God-Man is ascended into the high Court of heaven ⁴