The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

Now the Saints have more reason to strengthen their Faith in the Omnipotence of God in Prayer than wicked men, for because the things worldly men desire need not Omnipotence to do: A creature may do what they desire, except God will withdraw his common Providence, for one that is worth an hundred thousand pounds can make a poor man rich; and some Medicines in an ordinary way of Providence have virtue to cure many Diseases: But the things the people of God desire cannot be done but by Omnipotence, Eph. 1.19.

Now the Saints have more reason to strengthen their Faith in the Omnipotence of God in Prayer than wicked men, for because the things worldly men desire need not Omnipotence to do: A creature may do what they desire, except God will withdraw his common Providence, for one that is worth an hundred thousand pounds can make a poor man rich; and some Medicines in an ordinary way of Providence have vertue to cure many Diseases: But the things the people of God desire cannot be done but by Omnipotence, Eph. 1.19.

IV. We must act our Faith upon his Goodness and Bounty, for we must not only have high thoughts of Gods other Excellencies, but of his Goodness also, of his abundant willingness to do us good, and loathness to afflict us, for surely he never afflicts us but in case of necessity, 1 Pet. 1. If need be you are in many tribulations. When he afflicts us he only gives us necessaries, but when he bestows mercies, he gives us not only for our necessity, but richly to enjoy. When we go to a Covetous ⟨p. 341⟩man for money, he parts with every penny as with a drop of blood; for us to think God parts so with his Mercies, that he is hard to be entreated, and that he is an hard Master either for work or wages, are thoughts utterly unworthy, and shamefully dishonourable to the Goodness of God. If thy child, whose finger if it should but ache, thine heart aches, should think thou grudgest him every bit of meat he eats, thou wouldst think him a wretched child unworthy of thy tender affections; and must it not be far worse in thee to have such thoughts of God? since tam pius nemo, tam pater nemo. Was it so great a grief to Peter to have Christ question his love?