The life of faith in three parts, the first is a sermon on Heb.…

3. Faith showeth the soul those wants and miseries in it self, which nothing in the world is able to supply and cure. Nay, such as the world is apter to increase. It is not gold that will quench his thirst, who longs for pardon, grace and glory. A guilty conscience, a sinful and condemned soul will never be cured by riches, or high places, by pride, or fleshly sports and pleasures, James 5.1, 2, 3. This humbling work is not in vain.

3. Faith sheweth the soul those wants and miseries in it self, which nothing in the world is able to supply and cure. Nay, such as the world is apter to increase. It is not gold that will quench his thirst, who longs for pardon, grace and glory. A guil•y conscience, a sinful and condemned soul will never be cured by riches, or high places, by pride, or fl•shly sports and pleasures, James 5.1, 2, 3. This humbling work is not in vain.

4. Faith looketh to Christ, who hath overcome the world, and carefully treadeth in his st•ps, John 16.33. Heb. 12.2, 3, 4, 5. It looketh to his person, his birth, his life, his cross, his grave, and his resurrection: to all that strange example of contempt of worldly things which he gave us from his manger, to his shameful kind of death. And he that studieth the Life of Christ, will either despise the world, or him He will either vilify the world in imitation of his Lord, or vilify Christ for the pleasures ⟨p. 430⟩of the world. Faith hath in this warfare, the surest and most honourable guide, the ablest Captain, and the most powerful example in all the world. And it hath with Christian unerring Rule, which furnisheth him with armour for every use. Yea it hath through him a promise of Victory before it be attained; so that in the beginning of the fight, it knows the end,