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

In which Encounter, Faith will take up arguments, 1 From it self. 2 From God.

1 From it self: By presenting its miserable Condition in the absence of God: That all his own work is ready to sink, and die, to come to nothing; if he help not. Oh! (will Faith say) Lord, my flesh fails, my heart fails, my strength fails, my spirit fails. Oh! Come down before I dye: come, strengthen the things that are ready to dye in me.

1 From it self: By presenting its miserable Condition in the absence of God: That all his own work is ready to sink, and dy, to come to nothing; if hee help not. Oh! (will Faith say) Lord, my flesh fails, my heart fails, my strength fails, my spirit fails. Oh! Come down before I dye: come, strengthen the things that are ready to dye in me.

This argument David took up, Psal. 143.7. — Hear me speedily, O Lord, my spirit fails. Oh! Hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the Pit. So Psal. 39.10, 12, 13.— Take thy plague from me, I am consumed by the stroke of thy hand, &c. Hear my prayer, O Lord, hearken to my cry. Keep not silence at my tears, for I am a stranger with thee; a sojourner as all my Fathers were — Oh! spare a little, that I may recover strength before I go hence, and be no more.

This argument David took up, Psal. 143.7. — Hear me speedily, O Lord, my spirit fails. Oh! Hide not thy face from mee, lest I bee like unto them that go down into the Pit. So