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A94345	The rest of faith: that is, soules fixed and established in God by believing on him through the Lord Jesus Christ. With the grounds of this faith from sanctified reason, the benefits of faith, and the evils of unbeliefe. / Proved by Gods Word, and presented to open view, by Coll. Robert Tichborne.	Tichborne, Robert, Sir, d. 1682.	1649 (1649)	Wing T1151; Thomason E544_2; ESTC R203790	133,030	166

The Rest of Faith THAT IS Souls fixed and established in God by believing on him through the Lord JESUS CHRIST With the grounds of this Faith from sanctified Reason the benefits of Faith and the evils of unbeliefe Proved by Gods Word and presented to open view By Coll. ROBERT TICHBORNE Psalm 125.1 They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion which cannot be removed but abideth for ever John 6.47 Verily verily I say unto you he that believeth on mee hath everlasting life Isa 50.10 Who is among you that feareth the Lord that obeyeth the voyce of his servant that walketh in darknesse and hath no light let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God LONDON Printed by M. Simmons at the gilded Lyon in Aldersgate-streete 1649. TO THE HONOURABLE Lieftenant Generall CROMWELL Honourable Sir GOD having first pitched my meditations upon the study after an establishment in this perishing World and shaking times in which we live and in this study more emminently then before made knowne himselfe in the Lord Jesus Christ to be that Rocke of Ages which never failes such as trust in him he did then draw forth my heart upon a principle of common good 〈◊〉 hold that forth to the World which he had made known to me that so if God would blesse it to the end I intended it every soule might be as happy in a fixed state as my selfe this is truly my end in publishing that to others which God did in secret imprint upon my heart Now in the publishing of this I take boldnes to Dedicate it to your self but if any aske why I doe so I shall render them these two Reasons First it is proper for me to tender respects to one from whom I have received so many I shall be short in this and say no more but that I remaine your Debtor My second reason is this Though the subject be of generall tendency to the wants of all Gods people yet such as God puts most worke upon have most need of this support such as fight and contend with the enemies of God either within them or without them will finde faith in God to be their best weapon that God hath emminently called and used you in such a weighty work I need produce no proofes to the World God himselfe hath done it what God hath further for you to doe I know not but this I know that faith in him will be your greatest strength in doing and a certaine rest what ever your worke maybe for this reason also I present this to your hands the scope and substance of which I believe hath strengthened your heart and hand in all that concernes you here and for ever Your enemies say you have done much but I beleeve the voyce of your owne heart is that God hath done all himselfe wherein he hath used you as an instrument What is yet behind for you to doe or suffer God only knows This I dare boldly affirme faith in God will be your best companion and your surest rest in all conditions therefore Sir in sincere love I present my service and this Treatise of the rest of Faith to your hands the Lord goe with it to your heart and make himselfe your rest here and forever which is the reall desire of him that truely loves you and in love will be ready to serve you in the worke of the Lord whilst I remaine ROBERT TICHBORNE To the READER READER I Observe in nature that the strongest liquors are of most use when the spirits are weakest as strong waters to a fainting man and when the seas are most boisterous then doth the Marriner cast forth his Anchor The dispensations of God in these latter dayes of the world in which we live hath made both Sea ●and full of troubles by reason whereof much fainting of spirit and trembling of heart hath overspread the Nation These out goings of God hath drawn forth my heart to follow that tracke of his Word in the light and strength of his spirit which leads to himselfe that so I might find in him reviving to my fainting spirit and a rest for my weary soule God having been so gracious in manifesting himselfe to be my all here and for ever and given me a heart to rest upon him by which I am in full and lasting rest It was set upon my heart that I should not be unthankfull to him and unchristian to others If I should have onely sed upon this bread of life in spirit and not tel forth to the glory of his grace and the good of others how sure a resting place his bosome of love is and how firmly all such shal be established that believe on him one drop of his love wll raise the lowest spirit that soule which stays it selfe upon God by faith will be at rest though the storms of the world be never so great If this be true which I am confident many thousand souls besides my own can bear the witness of to God then I am apt to believe the following Treatise will have acceptance with such as God hath made sensible that he is now shaking not onely the earth but the heavens also Most complaine of the earth-quakes which the Land and world is ful of but some complain of heart-quakes to these complaints give me leave to speak in the Prophets language Believe in the Lord your God so shall you be established Believe in God as your God so will your hearts be fixed when as God shal write vanity upon al the world God is now staining all glories besides his own but such as live and glory in God through believing wil have a living glory in a dying world a bed of rest what ever troubles the world be● ful of Therefore Reader if you would faine rest you must live on God by faith and if in this worke God shall use the following Treatise for your good I shal blesse him for your soule as for my owne truly this is the highest end of your servant in the Lord Robert Tichborne Beleeving in God doth advantage a Saint with an established heart 2 CHRO 20. later part 20. Verse Beleeve in the Lord your God so shall you be established THE Lord telleth us in his Word Heb. 12.26 of a time when as he will not onely shal●e the Earth but the Heavens also Shake all that may be shaken so as that which cannot be shaken may remaine and appeare this is his faithfull Word and truly his great and glorious workinge in these our dayes doth seem to point out that time to be neere at hand when God himselfe doth shake the whole Earth and heavens though they be vast bodies yet they must fall before the breath of the Almighty power which made them by a word this shaking truth and times hath with more solicitousnesse drawne forth my heart to seeke after establishment I found incouragement to this worke in that very text which

read no one of these shall faile That i● looke into Gods word and what ever you finde hee hath said he will make it good not any tittle of his word shall faile you shall never blemish him in his faithfulnesse for it is his glory Now sanctified Reason let mee aske you if this be not a good reason why you should trust in God because it is his glory to be faithfull and that glory which hee hath unspottedly preserved from everlasting Fleshly judgements sees reason in this for when they commit businesse and trust to men they will choose as they thinke the most faithfull to the worke and when men do otherwise we count they have lost their common reason and when we choose men to fight our Battles in whom we commit much trust Doe we not choose such men who make it their glory to be gallant and will rather choose to dye then staine their fidelity and their valour Why upon this account sanctified reason may safely commit all trust to God it is his glory to be saithfull Sinne and all the other enemies of God and his people shall perish in the maintaining of the glory of Gods faithfulnesse I am to seeke of all reason if this doe not answer the best of reason to trust that God who makes it his glory to be faithful and that faithfulnesse which never was stained A sixth reason that I shal offer is this That God is an inexhausted fountaine and treasury of all grace and goodnesse that either the soules or bodies of his people can stand in need of he can never promise more then he can perform nor can any of his people want that good which is not in him hee is not onely all good in himselfe but also the fountain of all that which fils heaven and earth good is originall in God and in every thing else as it is derived from God or received of God what ever of mercy and grace either externall or internall it is received and God is the fountaine The Prophet David doth acknowledge God to be the fountain and giver of all the good he enjoyed Psalm 23. It was God that made him lye down in green pastures that lead him by still waters that restored his soule and lead him in the paths of righteousnesse that prepared a table before him in the middest of his enemies that annoynted his head with oyle and made his cup to run over He found God so full of all good that he filled him till his cup run over and that in the middest of his enemies a place more apt to streights then fulnesse yet this was Davids condition because God was his shepheard he received from an inexhausted fountaine therefore his cup runs over God is so full that if he● doe but drop of his owne fulnese the narrow vessel of the creature runs over he is the fountaine of life and the God of salvation Psal 68 19 20. He daily loadeth his people with benefits for he is the God of salvation The sull fountaine of all blessings there is fulness of grace in him to kil sinne and to save the sinner there is fulnesse of love in him to pardon the greatest evill and to love the least good in his children there is fulnesse of power in him to crush and destroy a world of Enemies and to preserve his owne little Flocke there is riches of goodnesse and mercy in him to supply all the wants of his people In a word there is all good in God that wee can either aske or need to read his Attributes will discover his fulnesse And now me-thinkes sanctified Reason should answer as Simon-Peter did our Saviour in the 6th of John verse 68. When Christ asked his Disciples if they would leave him also his answer is Lord to whom shall wee goe thou hast the words of eternall life So should Saints filled with sanctified Reason say to GOD thou art an inexhausted fountaine of grace and goodnessee wee can go no whither but to thee for Eternall life for thou art to thy people the fountain of life That is life from all Eternity To my understanding this should bee a prevailing argument with the purest and rightest reason to cast all upon him that is all and to trust in the fountaine of life for life that can give most which is most and nothing can give all but GOD that is all in himselfe Eternity cannot wast● nor consume the least of GODS fulnesse therefore is GOD a suitable fulnesse for Eternall soules and him only to be rested upon that can never fail to be what our souls stand in need of to all eternity Reason carries men from one thing to another because they conceive a greater good in the last then in the first how should it teach men then to goe from all to God because in him is all good and to rest in nothing but in him because there is good in nothing out of him and for over to depend on him because he is not onely good but the fountaine of all good The seventh and last argument that I shall give to sanctified Reason is this That what ever any soule beleeveth and trusteth in besides God it must and will deceive the soule there is no rock of ages besides him nor is there any Almighty power ou● of him vanity is at the root of every created being and doth as the worme to Jonahs Gourd bring them to nothing that which cannot preserve its owne being cannot of it selfe preserve any other being though committed to it but no created being can preserve or continue it selfe by its owne strength therefore not able to preserve any thing committed to them borrowed strength and received abilities will not be trusted by right sanctified Reason because the lender may call back his owne and then the receiver is empty of any ability to answer trust and must of necessity faile the expectation of the Trustee Now this is all that can be thought of besides God by nature empty Vessel● meer Ciphers have nothing originall that is worthy every dram of excellency and good is received now such a subject is altogether unsutable to make a God of that is to commit the trust of eternall soules or any thing that is precious too but if trusted it must needs deceive because that which is nothing in it selfe cannot add any thing to another that which is vanity in it selfe cannot give better to any nor make a better returne to any that trust in it and the Wise man sayes of all things under the Sunne that they are vanity Eccles 1.14 and vexation of spirit Eccles 1.14 At they are vanity so they deceive all that trust in them and in the deceiving of trust and great expectations so they become vexation of spirit So the Prophet David in Psalm 62.9 Surely men of low degree are vanity and men of high degree are a lye That is men of all degrees have so much vanity in them that they are