The Fountain of Life Opened

Sixthly, And lastly, It implies both the efficacy, and excellency of Faith in supporting and relieving the soul at a time when nothing else is able to do it. Faith is its conduct, when it is at the greatest loss, and distress that ever it met with. It secures the soul when it is turned out of the body. When heart and flesh fail, this leads it to the rock that fails not. It sticks by that soul till it see it safe through all the territories of Satan, and safe Landed upon the shore of Glory; and then is swallowed up in vision. Many a favour it hath shown the soul while it dwelt in its body. The great service it did for the soul was in the time of its espousals to Christ. This is the marriage knot. The blessed bond of union betwixt the soul and Christ. Many a relieving sight, secret and sweet support it hath received from its faith since that; but surely its first and last works are its most glorious works. By faith it first ventured it self upon Christ. Threw it self upon him in the deepest sense of its own vileness, and utter unworthiness, when sense, reason, and multitudes of temptations stood by contradicting and discouraging the soul. By faith it now casts it self into his arms, when it's launching out into vast eternity.

Sixthly, And lastly, It implies both the efficacy, and excellency of Faith in supporting and relieving the soul at a time when nothing else is able to do it. Faith is its conduct, when it is at the greatest loss, and distress that ever it met with. It secures the soul when it is turned out of the body. When heart and flesh fail, this leads it to the rock that fails not. It sticks by that soul till it see it safe through all the territories of Satan, and safe Landed upon the shore of Glory; and then is swallowed up in vision. Many a favour it hath shewn the soul while it dwelt in its body. The great service it did for the soul was in the time of its espousals to Christ. This is the marriage knot. The blessed bond of union betwixt the soul and Christ. Many a relieving sight, secret and sweet support it hath received from its faith since that; but surely its first and last works are its most glorious works. By faith it first ventured it self upon Christ. Threw it self upon him in the deepest sense of its own vileness, and utter unworthiness, when sense, reason, and multitudes of temptations stood by contradicting and discouraging the soul. By faith it now casts it self into his arms, when it's lanching out into vast eternity.