FOR 'tis not unknown how strongly this sin keeps every mans Palace, and that not Moses, but the Lord Jesus is the stumbling stone even of the Jews, the peculiar people of God. When men are at their last cast, that the Lord intends to wait to pity no more, at last the Son comes, and an unbelieving heart casts the Balance and refuseth him. After that the Lord hath tried men by miraculous preservations, deliverances from Pharaohs, provision at Massah, then Canaan comes to be entered, and men cannot enter because of unbelief. This […] stands in open view, and keeps the breach, when all other sins in appearance are beaten out of the field. Now there is a Spirit of Faith, which comes in the room of this unbelief, dispossesseth […] soul of the power of it; for there may be some lighter strokes of the Spirit, […] are lighter Skirmishes with it, but yet it wins the field again; as in the stony ground, that believed, but unbelief got head again in time of persecution and temptation, and then they fell away.
FOR 'tis not unknown how strongly this sin keeps every mans Palace, and that not Moses, but the Lord Jesus is the stumbling stone even of the Iews, the peculiar people of God. When men are at their last cast, that the Lord intends to wait to pity no more, at last the Son comes, and an unbelieving heart casts the Ballance and refuseth him. After that the Lord hath tried men by miraculous preservations, deliverances from Pharaohs, provision at Massah, then Canaan comes to be entred, and men cannot enter because of unbelief. This 〈…〉 stands in open view, and keeps the breach, when all other sins in appearance are beaten out of the field. Now there is a Spirit of Faith, which comes in the room of this unbelief, dispossesseth 〈…〉 soul of the power of it; for there may be some lighter stroaks of the Spirit, 〈…〉 are lighter Skirmishes with it, but yet it wins the field again; as in the stony ground, that believed, but unbelief got head again in time of persecution and temptation, and then they fell away.
