The divine life in three treatises

3. The Truth of God is the Ground of Faith, and the stay of our souls, and the Rock of all our confidence and comfort. A Christian did not differ from another man (unless in being somewhat more deluded) if God were not True. But this is the foundation of all our hopes, and the life of our Religion, and all that we are as Christians, proceeds from this. Faith is animated by Gods Veracity, and from thence all other Graces flow, or are excited in us. O Christians, what a treasure is before your eyes, when you open the Blessed Book of God! what life should it put into your confidence and comforts, to think that all these words are true! All those descriptions of the Everlasting Kingdom, and all those exceeding precious Promises of this life, and that which is to come, and all the expressions of that exceeding Love of God unto his servants, all these are the True sayings of God. A faithful witness will not Lye, Prov. 14. 5. much less will the faithful God. Eternal Life is promised by God that cannot Lye, Tit. 1. 2. [Wherein God willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of Promise, the immutability of his Counsels confirmed it by an oath; that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to Lye, we might have a strong Consolation, who have fled for Refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us] Heb. 6. 17, 18. Let ⟨p. 140⟩Faith therefore live upon the Truth of God, and let us be strengthened, and rejoice therein.

3. The Truth of God is the Ground of Faith, and the stay of our souls, and the Rock of all our confidence and comfort. A Christian did not differ from another man (unless in being somewhat more deluded) if God were not True. But this is the foundation of all our hopes, and the life of our Religion, and all that we are as Christians, proceeds from this. Faith is animated by Gods Veracity, and from thence all other Graces flow, or are excited in us. O Christians, what a treasure is before your eyes, when you open the Blessed Book of God! what life should it put into your confidence and comforts, to think that all these words are true! All those descriptions of the Everlasting Kingdome, and all those exceeding precious Promises of this life, and that which is to come, and all the expressions of that exceeding Love of God unto his servants, all these are the True sayings of God. A faithful witness will not Lye,