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The poor doubting Christian drawn to Christ. Wherein the main hindrances, which keep men…
The poor doubting Christian drawn to Christ. Wherein the main hindrances, which keep men from coming to Christ, are discovered. : With special helps to recover God's favour. / By Thomas Hooker. ; With an abstract of the author's life. ; [Four lines from Isaiah]
Boston: printed by Green for D. Henchman, 1743
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Now leave all these with God, and meddle not with them, but put them over to the Lord, and meddle with thine own Duty, and thine own Work; and let God alone with his: And say thou unto the Lord, In truth, Lord, it is not in my Power, it is not in my Parts or Work, either to compass that Wisdom, that is able to direct my self, or to have any Power to do all that is commanded, much less to give good Success. Lord, I will not meddle with that, but leave it with thy Majesty: If thou in thy Power canst not, nor in thy Faithfulness and Goodness carest not for thy poor helpless Creature, then I am content: And if thou wilt not be faithful, then I am content to be miserable.
And so also thou mayest suppose a Man that hath promised to undertake some Business for a Friend, and in the End it proves somewhat troublesome, and therefore he wishes his Friend to take it again into his own Hands; for it is very troublesome: But a Man will leave it to him, and say, He hath engaged himself to do it, and he will not look after it; I will not meddle with it any more. So whatever it is that is in God's royal Prerogative, leave it with God, and do not meddle with it; let God now look to it; leave it to his Faithfulness and Power to accomplish it. So did Abraham, Rom. 4.16,—20. Who against Hope [or, above] Hope, believed in [or, under] Hope, that he should become the Father of many Nations. Sarah's Womb was barren, and his Body dead, and yet he must have a Son: And therefore he sets God's Power a-work, and saith, ver. 21. Lord, this Body is dead, and Sarah is barren: There is no Help here: But thou art able, and thou hast engaged thy self to do it. You see he sets God's Power to work, and puts over all the Weight and Burden of the Care upon the Lord. And therefore says Mordecai, Esther 4.14. If thou altogether holdest thy Peace at this Time, Enlargement and Deliverance shall come from some other Place. He was resolved that God had Deliverance for his Church, and would not deny his Truth. ⟨p. 128⟩