Patience and its perfect work under sudden & sore trialsPatience and its perfect work under sudden & sore tryals

§. If you ask me, Whence hath a a Christian this self-sufficiency, within himself? and wherein lies it?

§. If you ask me, Whence hath a a Christian this self-sufficiency, within himself? and wherein lyes it?

I answer, if God, and Christ dwell in the heart; if I have the earnest of the Spirit for my salvation: Or am partaker of his holiness, and that Grace, which accompanies salvation; and do delight in the will and glory of God, and in pleasing him, and the like to these; then I have a self-sufficiency within me. If, as in the 1 Joh. 4. 16. We have known and believed the Love that God hath to us. God is love, and ⟨p. 122⟩he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him: The we have all within our selves And is like as a man that hath […] provisions in and about his ow• house, so plentifully, as he need not go forth for any thing; s• is it, and will it be with us.

I answer, if God, and Christ dwell in the heart; if I have the earnest of the Spirit for my salvation: Or am partaker of his holiness, and that Grace, which accompanies salvation; and doe delight in the will and glory of God, and in pleasing him, and the like to these; then I have a self-sufficiency within me. If, as in the 1 Joh. 4. 16. We have known and believed the Love that God hath to us. God is love, and ⟨p. 122⟩he that dwelleth in love, dwellet• in God, and God in him: The we have all within our selves And is like as a man that hath 〈…〉 provisions in and about his ow house, so plentifully, as he need not goe forth for any thing; s is it, and will it be with us.