The divine life in three treatises

If you say, that Its true God can do it, but we know not whether he will; I answer 1. I shall show you in due place, how far he hath revealed his Will for such deliverances. In sum, we have his promise, that all things shall work together for our good, Rom. 8. 28. and what would we have more? Would you have that which is evil for you?

If you say, that Its true God can do it, but we know not whether he will; I answer 1. I shall shew you in due place, how far he hath revealed his Will for such deliverances. In sum, we have his promise, that all things shall work together for our good, Rom. 8. 28. and what would we have more? Would you have that which is evil for you?

2. At present, see that Omnipotency do establish thy confidence so far as it is concerned in the cause. As 1. Be sure that no work is too hard for the Almighty; Do not so much as in the thoughts of thy heart, make question of his Power, and say with those unbelievers, Psal. 78. 19, 20. [Can God furnish a Table in the wildernest? Can he give Bread also? Can he provide Flesh?] If really thou distrust not the Power of God, believe then the most difficult or improbable things, as well as the easiest and most probable, if God reveal or promise them. The Resurrection seemeth improbable to impotent man; But God hath promised it; And nothing is difficult to Omnipotency. The calling of the Jews; the ruin of the Turk; the downfall of the Pope; the unity of Christians, do all seem to us unlikely things; But all things to God are not only possible, but easy. He is at no more labour to make a world, then to make a straw, or make fly, [Whatsoever pleased the Lord, that did he in heaven and earth, in the sea and in the depths] Psal. 135. 6. Dost thou think it improbable that ever all thy sins should be conquered? and that ever thy soul should live with Christ among the holy Saints and Angels? and that ever thy Body that must first be dust, should shine as the stars in the firmament of God? And why doth it seem to thee improbable? Is it not as easy to God as to cause the earth to stand on nothing, and the un to run its daily course? If God had promised thee to live a day longer, or any small and common things, thou couldst then believe him; And is it not as easy to him to advance thee to Everlasting Glory, as o cause thee to live another hour, or to keep a hair of thy head from perishing? sin is too strong for thee to overcome, but not for God. Death is too strong for thee to conquer but