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¹Nineteenthly, That man that will venture his soul upon Christ, and that will lean upon Christ, and cleave to Christ with full purpose of heart, and that will cleave to his blood, and cleave to his righteousness, and cleave to his merits and satisfaction, in the face of all fears, doubts, disputes, cavils ⟨p. 205⟩and objections; and though it cannot clear its title to Christ, yet will stay and hang it self upon Christ for life and happiness; that man is certainly a Believer, and will be everlastingly saved. Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him; ²if I must die, I will die at his feet, and in the midst of death expect a better life;³ that man acts faith to purpose that can love a frowning God, and hang upon an angry God, and follow hard after a withdrawing God,⁴ yea and trust in a killing God, as here. Job had his Feverish sits, and his impatient slips, and yet he kept up his heroical resolution to lean upon the Lord, whilst he had but one minute to live; and this speaks out not only the truth, but also the strength of Job's faith in the midst of his extraordinary combats; when the soul is peremptorily and habitually resolved to cleave to the person of Christ, and to cleave to the merits of Christ,⁵ and to cleave to the transactions of Christ with the Father, for the salvation of sinners (as the wife cleaves to her husband, or as the child cleaves to the father, or as Ruth cleaved to Naomi, or as the Ivy cleaves to the Oak) with an If I perish, I perish, then 'tis safe, then 'tis happy, then 'tis out of the danger of hell, then 'tis within the Suburbs of heaven. God never did, nor never will cast such a man to hell, whose soul is drawn forth to a secret resting, saying, leaning and relying alone upon Christ, for the obtaining of all that good, and all that glory that he has purchased, and his father has promised. But,

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