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

Would you know who it is that is the Christian indeed? 1. He is one that liveth (in some measure) as if he saw the Lord: Believing in that God that dwelleth in the inaccessible light, that cannot be seen by mortal eyes, he liveth as before his face. He speaks, he prays, he thinks, he deals with men, as if he saw the Lord stand by. No wonder therefore if he do it with reverence and holy fear. No wonder if he make lighter of the smiles or frowns of mortal man, than others do that see none higher; and if he observe not the lustre of worldly dignity, or fleshly beauty, wisdom or vain-glory, before the transcendent incomprehensible light, to which the Sun it self is darkness. When he awaketh he is still with God, Psal. 134.8. He sets the Lord always before him, because he is at his right hand, he is not moved, Psal. 16.8. And therefore the life of Believers is oft called, a walking with God, and a walking ⟨p. 12⟩before God, as Gen. 5.22, 24. & 6.9. & 17.1. in the case of Enoch, Noah, and Abraham. All the day doth he wait on God, Psal. 25▪5. Imagine your selves what manner of person he must be that sees the Lord; and conclude that such (in his measure) is the true believer. For by faith he seeth him that is invisible (to the eye of sense) and therefore can forsake the glory and pleasures of the world, and feareth not the wrath of Princes, as it's said of Moses, Heb. 11.27.

Would you know who it is that is the Christian indeed? 1. He is one that liveth (in some measure) as if he saw the Lord: Believing in that God that dwelleth in the inaccessible light, that cannot be seen by mortal eyes, he liveth as before his face. He speaks, he prayes, he thinks, he deals with men, as if he saw the Lord stand by. No wonder therefore if he do it with reverence and holy fear. No wonder if he make lighter of the smiles or frowns of mortal man, than others do that see none higher; and if he observe not the lustre of worldly dignity, or fl•shly beauty, wisdom or vain-glory, before the transcendent incomprehensible light, to which the Sun it self is darkness. When he awaketh he is still with God, Psal. 134.8. He sets the Lord alwaies before him, because he is at his right hand, he is not moved,