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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
§ 2. Pray also that God would so stablish you in the truth of the promises, that your Faith may not be shaken with every wind of Providence: We are apt to have our hearts tossed by contrary Dispensations. So upon a rumour, Isa. 7.2. The heart of Asa was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. It argues great weakness of Faith that we cannot maintain an equality of mind under various Providences, the only remedy of which evil is to pray that God would increase and strengthen our Faith; that we may be so firmly built upon the unmoveable rock, that we may not be afraid of evil tidings, having our hearts fixed, trusting in the Lord, Psal. 112.7. And this was the glory of Job's Faith, Job 13.15. That tho' God should slay him, yet would he trust in him.
§ 2. Pray also that God would so stablish you in the truth of the promises, that your Faith may not be shaken with every wind of Providence: We are apt to have our hearts tossed by contrary Dispensations. So upon a rumour, Isa. 7.2. The heart of Asa was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. It argues great weakness of Faith that we cannot maintain an equality of mind under various Providences, the only remedy of which evil is to pray that God would encrease and strengthen our Faith; that we may be so firmly built upon the unmoveable rock, that we may not be afraid of evil tidings, having our hearts fixed, trusting in the Lord, Psal. 112.7. And this was the glory of Job's Faith, Job 13.15. That tho' God should slay him, yet would he trust in him.