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

3. The ground of a Christians believing Gods Promises, must not be in him who is to apply them, but only in him who makes them. O! this is it which gravels, and labyrinths, and still distresseth us, that we set up the grounds of faith in our selves, and not in God. We are loth to acknowledge that the sole ground of believing is to be found only in that God who promiseth.

3. The ground of a Christians beleeving Gods Promises, must not be in him who is to apply them, but onely in him who makes them. O! this is it which gravels, and labyrinths, and still distresseth us, that we set up the grounds of faith in our selves, and not in God. We are loth to acknowledg that the sole ground of beleeving is to be found only in that God who promiseth.

It is said of Abraham, when God promised him a child in his old age, that by faith he gave ¹glory to God: But how came he so to do? The Text saith, that He considered not his own body, now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, nor the ²deadness of Sarahs womb; but he considered him who had promised, and was persuaded that what he had promised, he ³was able also to perform. Why? This is the right course to elicit ⟨p. 274⟩or draw out our believing: We must not consider our selves, but we must consider him who promiseth: Our reasons of believing must be found in him alone on whom we are to believe.

It is said of Abraham, when God promised him a child in his old age, that by faith he gave ¹