The poor doubting Christian drawn to Christ. Wherein the main hindrances, which keep men…

I have several Passages to express this more fully. Jacob would not believe that Joseph was alive; or if he were alive, he had but little Means, and was poor, Gen. 45.26, —29. But when he saw the Chariots that Joseph had sent him, then he believed, and said, I have enough; Joseph my Son liveth. The Chariots sent from Joseph to Jacob, brought Jacob to Joseph. So every believing Soul is poor and feeble, and disabled to go to GOD, and to believe in the LORD JESUS CHRIST: Therefore look thou unto the Chariots of Israel first, and that will convey thee to the Promise. As it is with the Miller, first he prepares the Mill fitly, and orders all the Occasions thereof; and when the Stones are fit, ⟨p. 116⟩and laid to go, yet it will not, till the Sluice be pulled up, and the Water run that drives the Mill: So the Soul is humbled, and lies level with the Lord and his Truth, and is content to yield to his Conditions; but now the Soul of it self, in it self cannot go, it hath not the Principle of Going; but let down the Sluice of the Promise, and let that come to thy Heart, and it will bring thy Soul home to the Lord. As Luke 19.9. This Day is Salvation come to this House: Not to the Walls of thy House, but to Men that are in thy House. They did not come to Salvation, but Salvation came to them. The Lord sent Salvation to salute the House of little Zaccheus.

I have several Passages to express this more fully. Jacob would not believe that Joseph was alive; or if he were alive, he had but little Means, and was poor, Gen. 45.26, —29. But when he saw the Chariots that Joseph had sent him, then he believed, and said, I have enough; Joseph my Son liveth. The Chariots sent from Joseph to Jacob, brought Jacob to Joseph. So every believing Soul is poor and feeble, and disabled to go to GOD, and to believe in the LORD JESUS CHRIST: Therefore look thou unto the Chariots of Israel first, and that will convey thee to the Promise. As it is with the Miller, first he prepares the Mill fitly, and orders all the Occasions thereof; and when the Stones are fit, ⟨p. 116⟩and laid to go, yet it will not, till the Sluce be pulled up, and the Water run that drives the Mill: So the Soul is humbled, and lies level with the Lord and his Truth, and is content to yield to his Conditions; but now the Soul of it self, in it self cannot go, it hath not the Principle of Going; but let down the Sluce of the Promise, and let that come to thy Heart, and it will bring thy Soul home to the Lord. As