The law unsealed

2. We shall instance the breach of it in what is opposite to Faith, or Confidence which floweth from Faith; to wit, unbelief, diffidence, temerity, or tempting of God (which floweth from unbelief, and is opposite to Faith) the infidelity of Heathens and Jews, and the Atheism of such as believe not the Word: Thus also Heretics who abuse it, and Apostates who fall from the truth thereof, and are opposer• of it, are guilty of this sin; as also those who receive the Word in vain, and for all his invitations rest not on him; these make God a Liar, and despise him and his offers, being unwilling that he should reign over them: Here cometh in also anxiety, in respect of his Providence, and distrust or diffidence, in respect of his Promises, which is a sin questioning the fulfilling of Promises from the apprehension of some weakness in the Promiser, or in means used by him to bring about the accomplishment. Temerity, or tempting of God, is against Confidence also; this is an essaying or attempting somewhat without Gods Warrant, without which none can lawfully undertake any thing; that of Diffidence wrongeth Gods Faithfulness, this of Temerity wrongeth his Wisdom, in not making use of the means prescribed by him, as if we would attain the end another way of our own; opposite to Faith also, and the profession of it, are dissembling of the truth, fainting in the profession thereof, especially in the case of Confession, by which we dishonour God, and by our fearful, pusillanimous, and cowardly carriage, some way tempt others to think that we do not indeed believe these things, on which we seem by our faint deportment to lay little or no weight.

2. We shall instance the breach of it in what is opposite to Faith, or Confidence which floweth from Faith; to wit, unbelief, diffidence, temerity, or tempting of God (which floweth from unbelief, and is opposite to Faith) the infidelity of Heathens and Jews, and the Atheism of such as believe not the Word: Thus also Hereticks who abuse it, and Apostates who fall from the truth thereof, and are opposer• of it, are guilty of this sin; as also those who receive the Word in vain, and for all his invitations rest not on him; these make God a Lyar, and despise him and his offers, being unwilling that he should reign over them: Here cometh in also anxiety, in respect of his Providence, and distrust or diffidence, in respect of his Promises, which is a sin questioning the fulfilling of Promises from the apprehension of some weakness in the Promiser, or in means used by him to bring about the accomplishment. Temerity, or tempting of God, is against Confidence also; this is an essaying or attempting somewhat without Gods Warrant, without which none can lawfully undertake any thing; that of Diffidence wrongeth Gods Faithfulness, this of Temerity wrongeth his Wisdom, in not making use of the means prescribed by him, as if we would attain the end another way of our own; opposite to Faith also, and the profession of it, are dissembling of the truth, fainting in the profession thereof, especially in the case of Confession, by which we dishonour God, and by our fearful, pusillanimous, and cowardly carriage, some way tempt others to think that we do not indeed believe these things, on which we seem by our faint deportment to lay little or no weight.