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The saints jewel, showing how to apply the promise In a sermon preached by Thomas Shepherd.The saints iewell, shevving hovv to apply the promise In a sermon preached by Thomas Shepheard.
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If Christians be in afflictions and see that it doeth them good, then it is easy to believe that promise which God hath made, All things shall work together for the good of them that love God. But to believe this 1promise, when we cannot see any good ⟨p. 8⟩come of affliction, that is to believe by faith and not by sight: but when we can see no good come by affliction, but find our selves more dead and dull, and also God to frown upon us, and yet we trust in God, and believe the promise, and stay our souls upon Gods word; this is to live by faith, as we are commanded, Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth 2the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness and hath no light, let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. Faith maketh things absent to be present, and maketh the promise good to us, though things seem to thwart the promise never so much. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen, 3with the eye of sense. As Abraham believed 4against hope, that he should have a child, according as God had promised: so must we trust God upon a naked promise, that if health should be gone, or wealth, liberty, strength friends, yea life it self almost gone, and God seems to be gone, and hell to be threatened, yet still to trust in God, and believe, this is to live by faith, and comfort is in the promise for all such, but I speak now to Gods people.
If Christians be in afflictions and see that it doeth them good, then it is easie to beleeve that promise which God hath made, All things shall worke together for the good of them that love God. But to beleeve this 1promise, when wee cannot see any good ⟨p. 8⟩come of affliction, that is to beleeve by faith and not by sight: but when we can see no good come by affliction, but finde our selves more dead and dull, and also God to frowne upon us, and yet wee trust in God, and beleeve the promise, and stay our soules upon Gods word; this is to live by faith, as we are commanded, Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth