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3. And hereby God proves his faithfulness to his Promises. The promises on this account are so great, that one under the apprehension of his own vileness, is hardly persuadable to believe that there can be any such thing, and puts it away as incredible; but when he sees such as himself to have adventured on the promise of Grace, and cast themselves upon God, and •ome off pardoned, and justified, it puts the ••uth and fidelity of God beyond all question.

3. And hereby God proves his faithfulness to his Promises. The promises on this account are so great, that one under the apprehension of his own vileness, is hardly perswadable to believe that there can be any such thing, and puts it away as incredible; but when he sees such as himself to have adventured on the promise of Grace, and cast themselves upon God, and •ome off pardoned, and justified, it puts the ••uth and fidelity of God beyond all question.

2. To direct us what course to take, and so strengthen our faith in it. Examples do lay the Rule plain before us, and give us a Copy to write after; and when we see how they did, it tells us what we are to do: and because they sped, it helps us to believe that we may speed too: for,

1. God is the same still. He ever carrieth himself to us like himself: what he hath been to his people, that he will be; there is one way in which he dispenseth his grace from first to last. Hence that encouragement,