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But especially,¹ in the third place, if your Faith can carry you through spiritual difficulties, it will be much more able to carry you through all ⟨p. 253⟩outward troubles: I will instance in five spiritual difficulties.

But especially,¹ in the third place, if your Faith can carry you through spirituall difficulties, it will be much more able to carry you through all ⟨p. 253⟩outward troubles: I will instance in five spirituall difficulties.

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First,¹ if it can enable you to venture your Soul and eternal estate upon the free Grace of God,² in the sight and sense of all your own unworthiness. This, many will think, is not so hard a matter; but certainly, there is more difficulty in this work of Faith, then in enabling to bear all the miseries of the world: To do this, when the Soul understands throughly what the meaning of sin is, what that breach is, that it hath made between God and it self; when the Soul is truly burdened with it, when it hath the sight of Gods infinite holiness, and knows what the consequence of an eternal estate means, and yet for me to venture all, so as, I am lost for ever, if I miscarry here, and that when I have nothing to commend me to God, when he can see no good in me, nothing but that which his Soul loathes and abhors; surely, now to venture upon the free Grace of God, is a most glorious work of Faith: And that