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…

How shall a Christian therefore live by Faith? truly, first receive Christ and come to him for the end I mention; and then thou mayest be sure all other things shall be given to thee. As for example: dost want any temporal blessing? suppose it be payment of debts, thy daily bread, provision for thy ⟨p. 214⟩family, a comfortable yoke-fellow, &c. look now through the Scripture for promises of these things, and let thy faith act thus; If God hath given me Christ, the greatest blessing, then certainly he will give me all these smaller matters as may be good for me; but the Lord hath given me Christ, and therefore I shall not want: Psal. 23.1. The Lord is my shepherd, saith David, what follows? I shall not want; there is the like reason in all other things, suppose it be in case of protection from enemies, if the Lord hath given me Christ to save me from hell, then he will save me from these fleshly enemies much more: you shall see, Isa. 7. a promise given that Syria should not prevail against Judah: they doubted of this, how doth the Lord seek to assure them? you shall see, verse 14. it is by promising a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and his name shall be Emmanuel; this is a strange reason, (yet you may see the reason of it if you consider this point) so Isay 9.5 6. The oppressors rod shall be broken. For unto us a Son is borne, a Son is given. By Faith they put to flight the Armies of Aliens, brake down the walls of Jericho, did wonders in the world. What did they chiefly look to in this their faith? you shall see, Heb. 11.39, 40. it was by respecting the promise to come, and that better thing Christ Jesus himself, which we now see ⟨p. 215⟩with open face, and therefore he concludes, Heb. 12.1, 2, 3. Having such a cloud of witnesses, that thus lived and dyed by faith, let us look unto Jesus the Author and finisher of ours. The Prophet Habakkuk, Hab. 2.5. affirms, that the just shall live by Faith; What faith is that? consult with the place, you shall see it was in the promise of deliverance from the Chaldean tyranny, yet the Apostle Paul applies it to faith in Christs righteousness,