An expository comment, doctrinal, controversial, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…An expository comment, doctrinal, controversal, and practical upon the whole first chapter to the…

Did faith make us overlook instruments, second causes and all Creatures, how certain and constant would the hopes of the godly man be? The Sun would always go down upon a peaceable fixed, serene frame of heat; but when faith prevaileth and for that composeth the soul, and maketh it like the Rock, which though one wave after another fiercely assault, yet that abideth in the same place still; so though conditions alter, though unheard causes and helps be mutable, yet because God is the same, and the promise is the same, he therefore continueth the same: Let then the Children of God examine and search their hearts more in this particular, see if the cause of all thy disquietness, of all thy troubles and fears do not arise from this, that thou art deceived, that thou passest false judgement upon thy self; certainly the Devil is enemy enough to thy comfort, he endeavours to seduce thee and deceive thee; Do not thou join with him against thy own true and solid comfort. But let us proceed to examine the grounds of this truth. And

Did faith make us overlooke instruments, second causes and all Creatures, how certain and constant would the hopes of the godly man be? The Sun would alwayes go down upon a peaceable fixed, serene frame of heat; but when faith prevaileth and for that composeth the soul, and maketh it like the Rock, which though one wave after another fiercely assault, yet that abideth in the same place still; so though conditions alter, though unheard causes and helps be mutable, yet because God is the same, and the promise is the same, he therefore continueth the same: Let then the Children of God examine and search their hearts more in this particular, see if the cause of all thy disquietness, of all thy troubles and feares do not arise from this, that thou art deceived, that thou passest false judgement upon thy self; certainly the Devill is enemy enough to thy comfort, he indeavours to seduce thee and deceive thee; Do not thou joyn with him against thy own true and solid comfort. But let us proceed to examine the grounds of this truth. And

The first is, Because the godly are apt to be hasty and too quick in judging ¹