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

Where Unbelief doth stony the Heart, harden the Heart, dries up the spring and issues of sorrow. No Heart is so hard as an Unbelieving-heart: neither the Promises, nor Threatenings; neither Mercy, nor Justice; neither Word, nor works will melt it: Faith on the contrary turns the Soul into Water; dissolves a man into tears; opens all the deep springs of sorrow in the Soul.

Where Unbelief doth stony the Heart, harden the Heart, dries up the spring and issues of sorrow. No Heart is so hard as an Unbeleeving-heart: neither the Promises, nor Threatnings; neither Mercy, nor Justice; neither Word, nor works will melt it: Faith on the contrary turns the Soul into Water; dissolves a man into tears; opens all the deep springs of sorrow in the Soul.

1. Faith looks upon Heart-melting-Promises: Takes a survey of the Riches of Gods Love and Mercy, in making such precious Promises, which doth exceedingly melt.

2. Faith takes up Heart-softening-Considerations, from the Love and Mercy of God towards us, which are Heart-melting-Mercies; from the goodness and sweetness of God. Faith makes us see God as he is. It makes God no otherwise than he is, not more gracious, not more merciful than he is: But Faith discovers him as he is, a gracious and a merciful God. It doth but undraw the Curtain, but take off the Mask, which Satan and Infidelity have ⟨p. 81⟩put on; and makes us to behold God as he is, in all his glorious excellencies, Soul saving attributes, and Mercies: which who can behold by Faith but must needs mourn and dissolve into tears, that they have offended him? Thus you see,