Seven sermons on several select subjects preached

Now let me in a few words reassume the Exhortation. O! let us labour for this true Faith and trust, to have our hearts sixth on God in evil times. When all is done, faith is the heart establishing grace, Psal. 112.8. his heart is established. The Hebrew word there for establish, signifies thus much; the heart is shored up; it is a metaphor that alludes to an house that is shored up by pieces of Timber. Thus faith shores up the heart when it is ⟨p. 122⟩like to sink. Oh! get this heart-fixing grace of faith; thus you come to be resolved and undaunted, even in the worst of times and dangers.

Now let me in a few words reassume the Exhortation. O! let us labour for this true Faith and trust, to have our hearts fixt on God in evil times. When all is done, faith is the heart establishing grace, Psal. 112.8. his heart is established. The Hebrew word there for establish, signifies thus much; the heart is shored up; it is a metaphor that alludes to an house that is shored up by pieces of Timber. Thus faith shores up the heart when it is ⟨p. 122⟩like to sink. Oh! get this heart-fixing grace of faith; thus you come to be resolved and undaunted, even in the worst of times and dangers.

Now that we may labour thus, consider but these two or three things.

First, There is nothing but God we can fix our trust in. Alas! whatever else we trust to besides God, it will prove an Ark of Bulrushes; it will never shelter us in an hour of danger: there is no trusting in Riches,