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

A weak Faith is quickly worn out, it cannot wait; if God come not presently, it is cast down, and can wait no longer. You see this in the Two Disciples going to Emmaus. — We hoped that this should have been he that should have delivered Israel; but he is dead: and this is the third day. They might have waited a little longer; they were too quick and hasty: what though the third was come, it was not yet expired: great things might have been done yet before night. But weak Faith is impatient of delays. — This evil proceedeth from the Lord: shall I wait on him any longer? was the voice of that wicked King, 2 King. 6.33. — Every vision faileth, Ezek. 12.22. so they, and too often many better than they.

A weak Faith is quickly worn out, it cannot wait; if God come not presently, it is cast down, and can wait no longer. You see this in the Two Disciples going to Emmaus. — Wee hoped that this should have been hee that should have delivered Israel; but hee is dead: and this is the third day. They might have waited a little longer; they were too quick and hasty: what though the third was come, it was not yet expired: great things might have been done yet before night. But weak Faith is impatient of delayes. — This evil proceedeth from the Lord: shall I wait on him any longer? was the voice of that wicked King, 2 King. 6.33. — Every vision faileth, Ezek. 12.22. so they, and too often many better than they.

But now a strong Faith will hold out in delays; yea, and pray more earnestly. As you see David did: who though — his Eyes failed, his Flesh failed, though his Heart failed, yet he renewed his supplication from day to day. The like in Daniel; in the Woman of Canaan; in Hannah; and in the Blind man, he was blamed for his importunity; and was yet the more importunate.