I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

Answ. 1 We do not live by feeling but by faith: it is the Duty of a Christian to begin with Faith, and so to ri•e up to feeling: you would begin with feeling, and so come down to faith; but you must begin with faith, and so rise up to feeling. And I pray tell me, Is it not sufficient to be as our Master was? Did not Christ want the sense of Gods Love, when he said, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Yea, had not Christ the sense of Gods Anger upon him when he did perform the greatest act of Obedience that ever the Sun saw? yet did he then say, I am not the Child of God, because I want the sense of Gods Love, because I am under the sense of Gods Anger? No, but with the same breath that he said he was forsaken, he said, My God, my God; and at the same time he called God Father, Father forgive them, &c. So may you do; though God hath forsaken you, though you want the sense of his Love, yea, and are under the sense of Gods Anger; yet at the same time you may say, the Lord is my Father, ⟨p. 52⟩and you may go to him as your Father: and if ye can say, God is my Father, have ye any reason for your Discouragements? Yet how often are Gods own People discouraged and cast down? O! you that are the Disciples of Christ, labour more and more to follow your Master; and as David here, so do you often say, Why art thou cast down, O my soul?

Answ. 1 We do not live by feeling but by faith: it is the Duty of a Christian to begin with Faith, and so to ri•e up to feeling: you would begin with feeling, and so come down to faith; but you must begin with faith, and so rise up to feeling. And I pray tell me, Is it not sufficient to be as our Master was? Did not Christ want the sence of Gods Love, when he said, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Yea, had not Christ the sence of Gods Anger upon him when he did perform the greatest act of Obedience that ever the Sun saw? yet did he then say, I am not the Child of God, because I want the sence of Gods Love, because I am under the sence of Gods Anger? No, but with the same breath that he said he was forsaken, he said, My God, my God; and at the same time he called God Father, Father forgive them, &c. So may you do; though God hath forsaken you, though you want the sence of his Love, yea, and are under the sence of Gods Anger; yet at the same time you may say, the Lord is my Father, ⟨p. 52⟩