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Again, in the fourth and last place, the last property of faith that I will name, is that in the 1 John 5.4. Whosoever is born of God overcometh the world, and this is our victory, even our faith. Observe that place, where there is faith, there is a victory, and a victory over the world: where ever there is faith, there is an overcoming of the world? To overcome the world, it is not to be overcome of the world; it is to persist in setting our chiefest affection upon the Lord Jesus Christ, notwithstanding all the devises and attempts of the world, either by flattery or by frowns; either by favour, or by blows; this is to overcome the world. Now then where ever there is faith, there is a victory over the world: that soul which hath faith in it, it hath overcome the world, the care of the world was wont to overcome it, but now it overcometh the care of the world; it is not so careful for the world, as it is for Christ. The fears of the world were wont to overcome it, but now it hath overcome the fears of the world, it is not so afraid of all the worlds injuries and threats, as it is of Christs displeasure: The pleasures of the world were wont to overcome it, the world runneth after nothing so much as after worldly ⟨p. 7⟩pleasures, is delighted in nothing so much, as in some worldly pleasure, either of contentment, or profit, or friends, of riches, or honours: But now the soul that hath faith in it, it delighteth in nothing so much as in the comfort of the Spirit, in the communion of the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus (I pray consider it, though I speak but briefly of these things, yet consider it) where ever there is faith, there is a victory over the world, before there is faith, there the soul is a slave to the world, but if once there be faith, he is more then conqueror, he is not the worlds slave, but the world is his, the world is trampled under his feet, and is a dead flower to him, that hath neither beauty nor sweetness in it.

Again, in the fourth and last place, the last propertie of faith that I will name, is that in the 1 John 5.4. Whosoever is born of God overcommeth the world, and this is our victorie, even our faith. Observe that place, where there is faith, there is a victorie, and a victorie over the world: where ever there is faith, there is an overcomming of the world? To overcome the world, it is not to be overcome of the world; it is to persist in setting our chiefest affection upon the Lord Jesus Christ, notwithstanding all the devises and attempts of the world, either by flattery or by frowns; either by favour, or by blowes; this is to overcome the world. Now then where ever there is faith, there is a victorie over the world: that soul which hath faith in it, it hath overcome the world, the care of the world was wont to overcome it, but now it overcommeth the care of the world; it is not so carefull for the world, as it is for Christ. The feares of the world were wont to overcome it, but now it hath overcome the feares of the world, it is not so afraid of all the worlds injuries and threats, as it is of Christs displeasure: The pleasures of the world were wont to overcome it, the world runneth after nothing so much as after worldly