Certain sermons, first preached, and after published at several times, by M. Thomas Gataker…Certaine sermons, first preached, and after published at severall times, by M. Thomas Gataker…

¹The like might be said severally of^c the steadfast purpose of depending upon God, and ^dof continuing constant in the diligent use of the Ordinances of God, and ^ewalking carefully in his ways. But that which I here in this last Note principally aim at, and will therefore most insist on,⁵ is this, that then the Sincerity of a mans heart herein doth most evidently appear, when he persisteth thus constantly in loving God, and Gods Children, cleaving to God, following him, frequenting his Ordinances, and depending upon him, though God seem not to regard him, ⁶nor do reveal himself yet unto him in that comfortable manner,^f as he doth frequently and usually unto those that be his.^† Yet will I wait upon the Lord, saith the Prophet Isaiah, though he have hid his face from us. And,^g Though he slay me, saith Job, yet will I still trust in him: ¹⁰Yea,^h though he hide his face from me, and carry himself towards me as an enemy. Hereby do the People of God in the Psalm approve their Sincerity unto God, and the uprightness of their hearts with him, in thatⁱ though God seemed to have clean forgotten them, and to have utterly cast them off, yet they had not left him, nor taken occasion thereby, either to neglect him or to stray from him, either in heart or in life, and to seek to any other helps. And it is certainly an argument of a great measure of Grace, when a Christian Soul, though finding in it self so weak encouragement, in regard of comfort or assurance, to depend upon God, yet can firmly resolve constantly