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Seventhly, How vile is the unbelief of thy heart, ¹who darest not trust God with thy name, estate, liberty? How canst thou trust God with thy soul, thy eternal estate? How lightly doest thou regard all the faithfulness, the mercy, goodness, wisdom, power of God, working for his people in their suffering conditions? Of what little account are all these gracious blessed promises of the Lord, for their encouragement herein? thy base shyness, and cowardice of spirit is such, as if there were no God, no faithfulness, mercy, wisdom, power to help, as if there were no promise to support and relieve thee.

Seventhly, How vile is the unbelief of thy heart, ¹who darest not trust God with thy name, estate, liberty? How canst thou trust God with thy soul, thy eternal estate? How lightly doest thou regard all the faithfulness, the mercy, goodness, wisdom, power of God, working for his people in their suffering conditions? Of what little account are all these gracious blessed promises of the Lord, for their encouragement herein? thy base shyness, and cowardise of spirit is such, as if there were no God, no faithfulness, mercy, wisdom, power to help, as if there were no promise to support and relieve thee.

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Eighthly, there is a necessity of thy miscarrying in ¹the ways of eternal life; for if God hath so ordered things in his providence, as that such ways must be in ways of affliction; and thy heart cannot bear affliction, how is it possible, but that thou must needs miscarry in them? It is a woeful thing, to have a mans heart opposite to Gods order, in any thing, but much more in things of infinite consequence; if afflictions be a block to thee in the way of life, you must have this block.