The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

But in the nature of it, it must be so perfect, that it carrieth the soul over wholly to Christ alone, resting and rolling on him; for an imperfect trust in this kind, is as good as nothing. He that doth not rest the full weight and stress of his soul on Christ, doth nothing for the matter of trust. It is not every faint stirring and moving of the heart, not every incomplete resting, but such a full rest of the soul upon Christ, that if he fails us, we are sunk and undone for ever.

But in the nature of it, it must be so perfect, that it carrieth the soul over wholly to Christ alone, resting and rowling on him; for an imperfect trust in this kinde, is as good as nothing. He that doth not rest the full weight and stress of his soul on Christ, doth nothing for the matter of trust. It is not every faint stirring and moving of the heart, not every incompleat resting, but such a full rest of the soul upon Christ, that if he fails us, we are sunk and undone for ever.

As you know a man is said to lean upon a thing, not when he bears up himself only by his own feet, but when he rests a great part, if not the whole weight of his body, upon some thing or person else, so that if it fail, he falleth: so thus it is to lean, to rest upon Christ, to commit the whole weight and stress of our souls to him, that if he fail me, I am undone, I am lost for ever, I see I am in a miserable condition, I see he is an all-sufficient Saviour, I see that there is nothing but death in me, I see there is life enough in him, and he invites me to come over to him, he entreats, beseecheth, promiseth, and therefore I will go over to him, I will cast my self wholly on him, I will look no other way, there will I trust, and if I perish, I perish: I will dye in his arms, I will dye believing. This indeed is that great act of faith, which entitleth us to Christ, and gives us an interest in him; even in the dusk of the morning the soul hath an interest. And therefore on the contrary, there is no readier way to be mistaken, and so to miscarry, than to trust equally to two stays, to trust to Christ, and to trust to our selves too. As there is no way whereby a man is likelier to fall, than to trust equally to two boughs, whereof the one is sound, and the other rotten; whereof if one break, it is as bad as if both did, the man is sure to come to the ground; whereas had he