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

First, If we would not be discouraged in any condition, Then never lay your comforts upon your condition, nor be in love with any condition for it self; let not your condition it self be the cause or bottom of your encouragements. Hang a cloak or garment upon a rotten peg, and that will break, and the garment fall down; now there is no condition but is a rotten peg, every condition is alterable, no condition so firm and fast, but is exposed to many changes, it is a rotten hold; God is Pillars, his name is Adonai, which signifies so much, and in Isa. 26. we are commanded to trust in the Lord, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength, or the rock of ages. And, saith the Psalmist, my flesh faileth,¹ and my heart faileth, but God is the rock of my heart for ever, so the Hebrew. Lay your comforts upon your own condition, and you do but build on the sand, which will be carried away with every wind, and storm, and tempest; but if upon Christ himself, upon God himself, ye build upon the Rock, and though the floods, and storms, and winds do rise and beat upon you, yet you shall not lose your comforts, because they are built upon a rock.

First, If we would not be discouraged in any condition, Then never lay your comforts upon your condition, nor be in love with any condition for it self; let not your condition it self be the cause or bottom of your incouragements. Hang a cloak or garment upon a rotten peg, and that wil break, and the garment fal down; now there is no condition but is a rotten peg, every condition is alterable, no condition so firm and fast, but is exposed to many changes, it is a rotten hold; God is Pillars, his name is Adonai, which signifies so much, and in Isa. 26. we are commanded to trust in the Lord, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength, or the rock of ages. And, saith the Psalmist, my flesh faileth,¹ and my heart faileth, but God is the rock of my heart for ever, so the Hebrew. Lay your comforts upon your own condition, and you do but build on the sand, which wil be carryed away with every wind, and storm, and tempest; but if upon Christ himself, upon God himself, ye build upon the Rock, and though the flouds, and stormes, and winds do rise and beat upon you, yet you shal not lose your comforts, because they are built upon a rock.