The doubting believer, or, A treatiseThe doubting beleever, or, A treatise

1. For Satan, he doth indeed tempt and suggest, but he cannot do this when he pleaseth, he must ask leave of God ¹to touch Job any way: And when he doth tempt, the issue doth not depend upon his malice; The Lord looks on, and subministers marvellous strength, and makes his servants to pray earnestly, and hear earnestly, and apply his Promises, and will deliver.

1. For Satan, he doth indeed tempt and suggest, but he cannot doe this when he pleaseth, he must ask leave of God ¹to touch Job any way: And when he doth tempt, the issue doth not depend upon his malice; The Lord lookes on, and subministers marvellous strength, and makes his servants to pray earnestly, and heare earnestly, and apply his Promises, and will deliver.

1. 1But his actions and the issues of them are subordinate and under restraint.

We look upon Satan, and not upon God; we look upon ¹strong temptations, but we look not upon mighty assistances; we consider our own weakness, but do not consider Gods omnipotency; we think how unable we are, but ⟨p. 153⟩not how able God is; we find yet no deliverance, and do not give faith its perfect work, to believe that God will find a way to conquer for us. If faith did but dwell upon Gods providence in this, how he suffers Satan to buffet us, and how his grace is sufficient for us, and how his power will be made manifest in weakness; how he hath delivered, and doth in our very resistance deliver us, and hath ²