A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast,…A sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast,…

2. What ground have those who hear of God, and those within the visible Church, to call God their God.

2. What ground have those who heare of God, and those within the visible Church, to call God their God.

For the discussion of the first, these following assertions may resolve us.

1. Assertion. Faith is more then a naked, hungry, and poor assent to the truth, there is in it a fiducial acquiescence and a leaning upon JEHOVAH, expressed by divers expressions full of marrow, as Psalm 22. 8. He trusted, the Hebrews say, He rolled himself on JEHOVAH; which is, when a wearied man sweating under a burden casteth himself and his burden both upon a place or a bed of rest Gol Ell-Jehovah as that Psal. 55. 22. Cast thy burden on JEHOVAH, and 1 Pet. 5. 7. Roll all your care on him, Psalm 37. the Chaldee Paraphrase saith on the place, for [he rolled himself on God] I spake praises to God, which holdeth forth, that Faith is a work of the heart and affection, rather then of the mind; So Psalm 37. 5. Resign, and give over, or roll over thy ways to the Lord, as Jerome doth well turn it; Bibl. Complutense, flee in to Jehovah. Psalm 18. 18. They prevented me in the day of my calamity, but Jehovah was my stay; referring this to the Lord his bearing up of Davids heart in his trouble (which in reason cannot be denied) Misgnan is, (as Arias Montanus turneth it) fulcrum; Junius, scipio, or baculus; the seventy Interpreters [Greek or Hebrew], the Lord was Davids stay and his staff: so is the word used, Isaiah 3. 1. The Lord taketh from Judah the stay and the staff; and it is not evil that Christ is the sinners stay, and the lamed mans staff, Isaiah, 26. 3. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed (as a house holden up by a prop) on thee,