12. A second Deliverance-obstructing sin is Unbelief; deeply laid to heart by God, Numb. 14.11. How long will this people provoke me? how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them? To tell you the story of their unbelief, were endless: but this was the sum of it; They had not faith enough to carry them from one miracle to another: Let God do never so great wonders for them to day, in the next strait they were as far to seek as before: they could not dispute faith into the conclusion, from the strongest premises which Omnipotence it self could make: nay, they got a wretched art of perverting Gods Logic; they dispute Gods arguments backward;2 Behold he smote the rock that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh also for his people? CAN HE? nay, they should have said, Can he not? Here is unbelief with a witness, from premises of Gods power, to conclude weakness: from a can to reason a cannot. And this unwheel'd the chariot of their deliverance as it were, that with Pharaoh's, it drove heavily: The Lord heard this, and was wroth: 3so a fire was kindled against Jacob, &c.4 See what contradictions their unbelief speaks: The land through which we have gone to ⟨p. 12⟩search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the men that we saw in it are men of great stature: and there we saw Giants. A strange tale; the land eats up the inhabitants, and yet they are men of great stature, and Giants; surely then they were no starvelings: show me not the meat, show me the man; if Giants, surely they wanted no victuals. UNBELIEF unreasons a man: 5so the Apostle joins them, when he prays to be delivered from unreasonable men; for all men have not faith. No wonder if unbelief be such an obstruction to a peoples deliverance: it ungods GOD, it UNMANS man. He did not many mighty works there, because of their unbelief. 6He DID NOT, so Matthew; but he COULD NOT, so Mark. God is said to can do no more then faith believes he can do. UNBELIEF TIES UP THE HANDS OF THE ALMIGHTY: According to your faith, be it unto you.
12. A second Deliverance-obstructing sin is Ʋnbelief; deeply laid to heart by God, Numb. 14.11. How long will this people provoke me? how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signes which I havo shewed among them? To tell you the story of their unbelief, were endlesse: but this was the sum of it; They had not faith enough to carry them from one miracle to another: Let God do never so great wonders for them to day, in the next strait they were as far to seek as before: they could not dispute faith into the conclusion, from the strongest premises which Omnipotence it self could make: nay, they got a wretched art of perverting Gods Logick; they dispute Gods arguments backward;2 Behold he smote the rock that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh also for his people? CAN HE? nay, they should have said, Can he not? Here is unbelief with a witnesse, from premises of Gods power, to conclude weaknesse: from a can to reason a cannot. And this unwheel'd the chariot of their deliverance as it were, that with Pharaoh's, it drove heavily: The Lord heard this, and was wroth: 3so a fire was kindled against Jacob, &c.4 See what contradictions their unbelief speaks: The land thorow which we have gone to ⟨p. 12⟩search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the men that we saw in it are men of great stature: and there we saw Giants. A strange tale; the land eats up the inhabitants, and yet they are men of great stature, and Giants; surely then they were no starvelings: shew me not the meat, shew me the man; if Giants, surely they wanted no victuals. UNBELIEF unreasons a man: 5so the Apostle joyns them, when he prays to be delivered from unreasonable men; for all men have not faith. No wonder if unbelief be such an obstruction to a peoples deliverance: it ungods GOD, it UNMANS man. He did not many mighty works there, because of their unbelief. 6He DID NOT, so Matthew; but he COULD NOT, so Mark. God is said to can do no more then faith believes he can do. UNBELIEF TIES UP THE HANDS OF THE ALMIGHTY: According to your faith, be it unto you.
- 12. By Unbelief.2. By Ʋnbelief.
- 2Psal. 78.20.
- 3Vers. 21.
- 4Num. 13.32, 33.
- 5Unreasonable men and faithless. 2 Thess. 3.2.Unreasonable men and faithlesse. 2 Thess. 3.2.
- 6Matth. 13.58. Mark 6.5. Matth. 9.29.
