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

Direct. 2. Understand the Nature and Reasons of Fidelity among men, viz. 1. To make them conformable to God: And 2. To maintain all Justice, Order and Virtue in the world. And when you have pondered these two, you will see that it is impossible for God to be unfaithful: For 1. If it be a vice in the Copy, what would it be in the Original! Nay, would not falsehood and perfidiousness become our perfection, to make us like God? 2. And if all the world would be like a company of enemies, Bedlams, brutes, or worse, if it were not for the remnants of fidelity, it is impossible that the Nature or Will of God, should be the pattern or original of so great evil.

Direct. 2. Vnderstand the Nature and Reasons of Fidelity among men, viz. 1. To make them conformable to God: And 2. To maintain all Justice, Order and Virtue in the world. And when you have pondered these two, you will see that it is impossible for God to be unfaithful: For 1. If it be a vice in the Copy, what would it be in the Original! Nay, would not falshood and perfidiousness become our perfection, to make us like God? 2. And if all the world would be like a company of enemies, Bedlams, bruits, or worse, if it were not for the remnants of fidelity, it is impossible that the Nature or Will of God, should be the pattern or original of so great evil.

Direct. 3. Consider what a foundation of his Promises God hath laid in Jesus Christ, and what a seal his blood and resurrection is unto them.

When it hath cost Christ so dear to procure them, certainly God will not break them. A Promise ratified in the blood of the Son of God, called the blood of the everlasting Covenant, Heb. 13.20. and by his rising from the dead, can never be broken. If the Law given by Moses, was firm, and a jot or tittle should not pass away till all were fulfilled, much more the word and testament of the Mediator of a better Covenant,