The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believerThe Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer

2. I answer, God may forsake his children in regard of vision, but not in regard of union. Thus it was with Jesus Christ, when he cried out, My God, my God. There was not a separation of the union between him and his Father, only a suspension of the vision^*. When the Moon doth intervene between us and the Sun, there follows an eclipse. Gods love, through the interposition of our sins, may be darkened and eclipsed, but still he is a Father. The Sun may be hid in a cloud, but it is not out of the Firmament. The promises in time of desertion may be as it were sequestered; we have not that comfort from them as formerly; but still the believers title holds good in law.

2. I answer, God may forsake his children in regard of vision, but not in regard of union. Thus it was with Jesus Christ, when he cried out, My God, my God. There was not a separation of the union between him and his Father, only a suspension of the vision^*. When the Moon doth intervene between us and the Sun, there follows an eclipse. Gods love, through the interposition of our sins, may be darkned and eclipsed, but still he is a Father. The Sun may be hid in a cloud, but it is not out of the Firmament. The promises in time of desertion may be as it were sequestred; we have not that comfort from them as formerly; but still the believers title holds good in law.

1. *No• fuit divulsio unionis, sed tantùm suspensio visionis.

3. Whe• God hides his face from his child, his heart may be ⟨p. 55⟩towards him. God may change his countenance, but not his heart. It is one thing for God to desert, another thing to dis-inherit.