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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42363	The Christians great interest: or A short treatise, divided into two parts the first whereof containeth, the tryal of a saving interest in Christ. The second, pointeth forth plainly, the way how to attain it: wherein somewhat is likewise spoken to the manner of express covenanting with God. By W. Guthrie, minister of the gospel in Scotland.	Guthrie, William, 1620-1665.	1681 (1681)	Wing G2273; ESTC R218716	96,110	156

not touch or embrace They may look to one to whome they dare not speak Yet God hath made the promise to faith in that acting as the forecited Scripture doth shew and this he hath done mercifully and wisely for this is the only discernable way of the acting of faith of some persons sometimes such are the actings our outgoings of faith exprest in Scripture by hungring and thirsting after righteousness Mat. 5. 6. and that exprest by w●lling Rev. 22. 17. Again this faith goeth out sometimes in the act of recumbency or leaning on the Lord the soul taking up Christ then as a resting stone and God hath so held him out although he be a stumbling stone to others Rom. 9. 33. This acting of it is hinted in the expressions of trusting and staying on God so often mentioned in Scripture and precious promises are made to this acting of faith Isa 26. 34. God will keep them in prerfect peace whose minds are staid on him because such do trust in him Trust in the Lord for with him is everlasting strength So Psal 125. 1. They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion which abideth for ever I say the Lord hath made promises to this way of Faiths acting as knowing it will go often out after him in this way with many persons and this way of its acting will be most discernable to them It goeth out after God sometimes by an act of waiting when the Soul hath somewhat depending before God and hath not got out his mind satisfyingly about that thing then Faith doth wait and so it hath the Promise Isa 49. 23. Sometimes it acteth in a wilful way upon the Lord when the Soul apprehendeth God thrusting it away and threatning its ruine So Job 13. 15. Though he slay me yet I will trust in him The faith of that poor woman Mat. 15. 22 28. so highly commended by Christ did go out in this way of wilful acting over the difficulties and the Lord speaketh much good of it and to it because some will be put to it to exercise faith that way sometimes and so they have that for their encouragement It were tedious to instance all the several ways of the acting of faith upon and its exercise about and outgoing after Christ I may say according to the various conditions and pressures of the soul of man the Lord hath variously held out himself and his fulness in Christ under divers notions as might most fitly meet the distress or condition of man and accordinly Faith which God hath appointed to traffick and travel between Christ and Man as the instrument of conveyance of his fulness unto man and of maintaining union and communion with him acteth variously and differently upon God in Christ for Faith is the very shaping out of a mans heart according to Gods contrivement of Salvation by Christ Jesus in whom it pleased the Father that fulness should dwell So that let Christ turn what way he will Faith turneth and pointeth that way Now he turneth all ways in which he can be useful to poor man and therefore faith acteth accordingly on him for drawing out of that fulness according to a mans case and condition As for example The soul is naked destitute of a covering to keep it from the storms of Gods wrath Christ is fine raiment Rev. 3. 17 18. Then accordingly Faiths work here is to put on the Lord Jesus Gal. 3. 27. The Soul is hungry and thirsty after somewhat that may everlastingly satisfy Christ Jesus is Milk Wine Water Bread of Life and the true Manna Isa 55. 1 2. Joh. 6. 4 51. He is the feast of Fat things and of Wine refined Isa 25. 6. Then the work and exercise of faith is to go buy eat and drink abundantly Isa 55. 1. Joh. 6. 53. 57. The soul is pursued for guilt more or less and is not Law-biding Christ Jesus is the City of refuge and the High-Priest there during whose life-time that is for ever the poor man who wins this is safe Then the work and exercise of faith is to flee thither for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us Heb. 6. 1. In a word whatsoever way he may benefit poor man so he speaketh of himself and as he holdeth out himself in the Scripture so faith doth point toward him If he be a Bridegroom faith will go out in a marriage relation If he be a Father Faith pleads the man to be a child If he be a shepherd faith pleads the man may be one of his sheep if he be a Lord faith calls him so which none can do but by the Spirit of Jesus If he be dead and risen again for our Justification faith believeth God hath raised him on that account Rom. 10. 9. wheresoever he be there would faith be and whatsoever he is faith would be somewhat proportionally For by faith the heart is shapen out in breadth and length for him yea when the fame and report of him goeth abroad in his truth although faith see not much yet it believeth on his Name upon the very fame he hath sent abroad of himself Joh. 1. 12. But here for avoiding of mistakes consider 1. That although justifying Faith acteth so variously yet every Believer who hath a good title to Christ Jesus hath not all these various actings and exercises of Faith for his condition craveth them not and also the Master is pleased not to lead out the faith of some persons at some times in some of these ways for reasons known to himself even when their necessity to their apprehension calleth for such acting of faith Surely every one dare not say Though he kill me yet will I trust in him Many would not have gon up with that woman I spake of Mat. 15. but would have been discouraged and quit the pursuit It is on this account that Christ doth highly commend the faith of some beyond the faith of others Mat. 8. 10. and 15. 28. Many good people are much disquieted about their faith because it goeth not out in all those ways we find recorded in Scripture But there is hardly and man will be found whose faith hath acted all these ways 2. Many of these actings of faith are much intended and remitted They are sometimes strong and vigorous and discernable and sometimes they fail and misbelief doth prevail so as it were an uncertain thing to judge of a mans estate by these We find the Saints very different from themselves in regard of the actings of faith sometimes as we shewed before 3. Each one of these actings of faith speaketh good to the person in whom it is and hath promises annexed unto it as we have said Yet 4. Although these Actings of faith have promises annexed unto them they are not for that the condition of the New Conenant for then every one behoved to have each one of them which is not true as we have said before A promise is made to him who