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

Again, Never let a quick Stock lie dead by you; it's monstrous ill Husbandry not to be ⟨p. 118⟩trading with a quick Stock. As it is in the World with Temporals, even so it is in our Spiritual Estate. Tho' a Man have a little for the present, yet if he have some old Reversions to come, it will refresh his Heart, and bear him up in time of Poverty and Misery; and he saith, If he can make but a scrambling Shift for a while, for so long time, then he hopes to live as well as any Man in the Country. So there are some of the Promises we have in Possession: Oh, but there is the Reversion of old Promises, old Rents. As old Rents of Farms that were let long ago, when the Leases come out, they are worth treble the Rent they were let for at the first: So there are old Rents of Comfort and Mercy; as, Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you. Then no more Tears, no more Trouble, no more Sorrow, no more Sin. Oh get those into your Hands, and have them in use, and say, The Day will come when we shall have Happiness and Joy beyond all that the Tongue of Man can express, or the Heart conceive. Tho' we are buffeted with many Temptations, and wearied with a world of Corruptions, yet we shall be saved, saith Faith. Thus a Man may make a pretty good shift to live upon these terms, tho' we have nothing else to live upon in the World. Remember what I speak now, and labour to fasten this ⟨p. 119⟩Truth upon thy Heart; That there is not only present good in thy self, but in ANOTHER, and reserved by ANOTHER for thy Comfort, and be thou content it should be so; not only to look and see what thou hast, but consider that the greatest part of thy Glory, is in the Glory of CHRIST; and the greatest part of thy Wisdom, is in the Wisdom of CHRIST; and the greatest part of thy Liberty, is in the Liberty of CHRIST; and thy Riches, in the Riches of CHRIST. And know, whatever is in CHRIST thou hast it all as thine, 1 John 3. 1, 2. Behold what manner of Love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we are now the Sons of God! I tell you Brethren, this is a marvellous Privilege; and if you had no more but this, you had a Child's Portion: But it appears not what we shall have, we have but a Glimpse now; what think you will the Harvest be? Now we have but the sips of it, what shall then the full Cups be when we shall see CHRIST as he is? Thus did Moses improve his Estate,