The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

By the Word let thine eye pitch upon the person; do not only account the Promise true, but with Sarah, ¹account him faithful who hath promised, and then let thy heart roll it self upon that grace and faithfulness revealed in this word; lean upon the breast of this beloved: and thus the soul by the chariot wheels and wings of the Word, is possessor of Christ in it, and carried up to Christs cross, as dying, Gal. 3.1. and from thence to his glory in his Kingdom by it, Heb. 10.19, 22. As a man that gives a great estate by some writing to us, we believe it as if he were present; and by this we do not only believe the writing to •e true, but the man to be be faithful and loving ⟨p. 178⟩to us; and hereupon our hearts are carried after the man himself, though afar off from us. Thus we ascend to Christ in the cloud of faith; as Jacob, though he could hardly believe, yet as soon as he was persuaded Joseph was yet alive, his spirit presently revived, and it was immediately with him, before his body came to him: so tis with faith; the soul goes unto Christ, before our bodies and souls both together shall have immediate communion with him.

By the Word let thine eye pitch upon the person; doe not onely account the Promise true, but with Sarah, ¹account him faithfull who hath promised, and then let thy heart roll it selfe upon that grace and faithfulnesse revealed in this word; leane upon the breast of this beloved: and thus the soule by the chariot wheeles and wings of the Word, is possessor of Christ in it, and carryed up to Christs crosse, as dying, Gal. 3.1. and from thence to his glory in his Kingdo• by it, Heb. 10.19, 22. As a man that gives a great estate by some writing to us, we beleeve it as if he were present; and by this we doe not onely beleeve the writing to e true, but the man to be be faithfull and loving