The saints treasury being sundry sermons preached in London /

And then Fourthly, faith eyes the things of heaven continually, and they are therefore present, because they are always in the eye of faith.

And then Fourthly, faith eyes the things of heaven continually, and they are therefore present, because they are alwayes in the eye of faith.

And Fifthly, the presentness of them is seen in this, because the Saints enjoy all in God: for this is the happiness of heaven, to see all glory and blessedness in God: Now faith doth something of this here; faith enables us to see great things in God. Now the enjoying communion with God for the present, and beholding of heaven in God, and seeing all things in him, this must needs make a present real subsistence of them to the soul. Thus I have spoken briefly of faiths, being the substance of things hoped for.

And Fifthly, the presentnesse of them is seen in this, because the Saints enjoy all in God: for this is the happinesse of heaven, to see all glory and blessednesse in God: Now faith doth something of this here; faith inables us to see great things in God. Now the enjoying communion with God for the present, and beholding of heaven in God, and seeing all things in him, this must needs make a present reall subsistance of them to the soul. Thus I have spoken briefly of faiths, being the substance of things hoped for.

For the use: If faith be the substance of things hoped for, and gives being to things so high and glorious as the things of God are: First, then certainly faith it self must needs be a very substantial thing; faith is not a conceit and notion, for it gives reality and substantial being to those things the world counts conceits: faith is the most substantialest glorious thing in the world: It is that, in the working of which, the power of God appears more then in any thing in the world: therefore in