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Secondly: There is another great Agent in the World, and that is civil honesty, and morality, which deals much between man and man; How may it appear that Faith can do greater things than this?

That appears plainly thus:

Civil Honesty, and Morality, doth trade but in small matter•, ⟨p. 8⟩and therefore the Civil, Honest, Moral man, he never breaks in his Profession, Why? Because he trades not in great matters. When do you hear a noise of a poor mans breaking? when a great, rich Merchant breaks, you have the noise of it through the City: When do you hear of Ships, or Vessels miscarrying in narrow Waters? in the Seas, Ships that launch out to Sea, they are Shipwrecked; but those that trade in narrow Waters, they seldom, or never Shipwreck. So those Professors that launch forth into the Ocean of the Gospel, they break sometimes; but the civil, moral man, he blesseth himself when he sees this; These (says he) are unconstant men, these are uneven men, sometimes for this, and sometimes for that Opinion; but I am constant: Whereas the Truth is, it is because he trades in Warrow Water, in small things, and so never breaks, never suffers Ship-wrack. But now, true saving Faith trades in the high things of the Gospel.

Civil Honesty, and Morality, doth trade but in smal matter•, ⟨p. 8⟩and therefore the Civil, Honest, Moral man, he never breaks in his Profession, Why? Because he trades not in great matters. When do you hear a noise of a poor mans breaking? when a great, rich Merchant breaks, you have the noise of it through the City: When do you hear of Ships, or Vessels miscarrying in narrow Waters? in the Seas, Ships that launch out to Sea, they are Shipwrack'd; but those that trade in narrow Waters, they seldom, or never Shipwrack. So those Professors that launch forth into the Ocean of the Gospel, they break somtimes; but the civil, moral man, he blesseth himself when he sees this; These (saies he) are unconstant men, these are uneven men, somtimes for this, and somtimes for that Opinion; but I am constant: Whereas the Truth is, it is because he trades in Warrow Water, in smal things, and so never breaks, never suffers Ship-wrack. But now, true saving Faith trades in the high things of the Gospel.