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

Well then (to conclude with a word to them that are weak) you that can clear this to your own hearts, that You have Faith, though it be weak: Be not ye discouraged: be not troubled though it be weak. Consider

Well then (to conclude with a word to them that are weak) you that can clear this to your own hearts, that You have Faith, though it bee weak: Bee not yee discouraged: bee not troubled though it bee weak. Consider

1. That the smallest degree of Faith is true; is saving Faith, as well as the greatest. A sparkle of fire is as true fire as any is in the Element of fire. A drop of water is as true water as any is in the ⟨p. 147⟩Ocean. So the least grain of Faith is as true Faith, and as saving, as the greatest Faith in the World.

2. Though it be weak: yet it is a growing Faith. As all the works: so all the Graces of God begin in weakness. The tallest Cedar was at first but a sprig. The strongest Oak at first was an Acorn. The greatest fire at first was a spark: so the greatest measure of Faith at the first was but as a little seed. It had a beginning.

2. Though it bee weak: yet it is a growing Faith. As all the works: so all the Graces of God begin in weakness. The tallest Cedar was at first but a sprig. The strongest Oak at first was an Acorn. The greatest fire at first was a spark: so the greatest measure of Faith at the first was but as a little seed. It had a beginning.