The truly blessed man

1. Renounce self confidence, and place your humble reliance upon Christ. If you trust in your own Grace it will fail, let you fall, and break your bones, but if you keep fast your hold on him, he will sustain you; nor shall all the force of your adversaries ever do you harm.

2. Animate your s•lves against all discouragements by frequent looking to the Salvation which is in the end. If your way seems deep, and dark, and oppressed, ⟨p. 445⟩and the flesh recoils, look forward to the crown, think of the happy issue, when your toil will be over, and you shall rest for ever in the unconceivable glories of the Kingdom, So did Paul, 2 Cor. 4.16, 17. A look of faith upon this, is cordial enough to revive your fainting spirits, and give you fresh way.

Prop. 2. That the proper design of Divine Teaching, is to guide men into and in this way. By Divine teaching I understand all that which hath God for its author, and Divinity for its subject. God is the author of other Sciences, Isa. 28.29. But Divinity, which is a Rule pointing man to eternal felicity, is eminently ascribed to him, in that it not only comes from God, but leads to him: and the Religion of fallen man, as to the main Articles of it, on which his Salvation depends, is not to be found by the light of nature, nor read in the volumes of Creation and Providence, but comes by Revelation. Now there is a double Teaching, Outward and ••ward, and both may be said to be Divine. Outward which is applied by the word and ordinances, in which we are treated with by men; but these means are of Divine authority; these instruments must have a Divine call and influence, and the success depends on Divine efficacy. Inward, is the Effectual operation of the Spirit of God on the hearts of men, enlightening the mind, persuading the Soul, and causing the man to learn: and this must needs be Divine, for all such are taught of God, and none else can so teach. Now the Proposition is a truth with respect to both of these, only