22 usually our Success is according to ouâ— preparation as in Prayer Psal 10 17. compare 2 Chron. 12. 14. with 2 Chron. 19. 3. make Conscience theâ— of preparation 2. Prayer Pour out your Hearâ— to God in Prayer for a Blessing oâ— the Word that you read or heaâ— O lift up a Cry to God and say Lord make this Word effectual to worâ— Faith in my Soul c. 3. Earnest Desire and Expectatis of meeting God in the Word and oâ— his blessing on it if we expect nothing from it no wonder if we receive nothing there is a fulness of Blessing in the Gospel Rom. 15. 29. We should bring hungry and thirsty Souls after God the Living God as Psal 63. 1 2 3. and 84. 1 2. God filleth the Hungry with good things Luke 1. 53. Secondly Some things are Concomitant As 1. We must read and hear it as the Word of God and not as the Word of Man 1 Thess 2. 13. Acts 10. 33. and we must acknowledg God's Authority in it 2. Receive it with Meekness opening our Hearts to it and give it the most tender entertainment Jam. 1. 21. 3. With Love readiness of Mind and gladness of Heart 2 Thess 2. 10. Acts 2. 41. 4. With Faith giving credit to it believing it to be the Word of God Heb. 4. 2. 5. We must be careful to remember it See what great stress is laid upon our remembring 1 Cor. 15. 2. Our Salvation lies upon it Psal 119. 11. Love the Word for Love is the Act of Memory 6. Prayer must be added again for a Blessing Thirdly Some things must be done afterward also As 1. Meditation upon what you have heard and read for want of this usually all is lost I am perswaded this is one great Reason why most profit so little by the Word because they make no Conscience of Meditation they hear and read but never think more on it afterwards So Preaching Hearing Reading and all lost and Souls and Heaven and all lost For God's sake then whose Word you read and hear and for your own Souls sake if you are not willing they should perish for want of Faith make Conscience of Meditation on the Word Psal 1. 2. and 119. 97. if ever you get good by the Word meditate upon it 2. Application of it take it home to your selves Job 5. 27. Let it sink down into your Hearts saith Christ it must be an ingrafted Word you must receive it into your Hearts and not into your Heads only 2. Cor. 4. 6. your Hearts must be joined to it and mix'd with it 3. Practice Yielding up our selves to the Government of it making it the Standard and Rule of your whole Conversation We must be doers of the Word and not hearers only lest we deceive our own Souls Jam. 1. 22. 1 Pet. 1. 22. Mat. 7. 22 24. And in observing these Scripture-Rules here laid down in the careful and conscientious use of God's Word after this manner you may not doubt but the Holy Spirit of God will work with the Word of God to make it effectual to work this most precious Grace of Faith in us whereby to believe in God and in Christ to the Consolation and eternal Salvation of our Souls But if we neglect the Means God hath ordained to get Faith and for want of it die in our Sins and perish eternally our Destruction will be of our selves Direct III. Thirdly Would we have Faith Let us engage our whole Souls in the deep and serious consideration of the infinite unspeakable unconceivable Love of God the Father in this the highest and fullest demonstration of it in giving his Son his only begotten Son to be a Sin-Offering a Sacrifice a Ransom for poor Sinners and that for this very end and purpose that we poor Sinners might believe in him and by believing might not perish but might have Eternal Life I pray read and ponder upon the following Texts and let your most serious Thoughts fix on them and meditate on them Isa 53. throughout John 3. 16 17. Rom. 3. 25. Rom. 5. 8. 10. Prov. 8. 30. Col. 1. 12 13. 2 Cor. 5. 19 20 21. Rom. 8. 3. 8. 32. with many other which for brevity sake I cannot transcribe If we can but believe this wonderful Love of God the Father in giving his dear Son to be a Surety a Sin-Offering to lay all our Iniquities on him that he was pleased to bruise him and put him to Grief for us and consider and meditate upon the Heighth and Depth the Breadth and Length of this immense imcomprehensible Love of God in giving his Son and that on purpose that we might believe in him and by beleiving might have Eternal Life I say it will greatly help us to believe in his Son to accept of this his unspeakable Gift and to receive him as he is offered to us in the Gospel Moreover let us also consider of and deeply meditate upon the transcendent Love of the Son of God himself who though he were the Delight of his Father and lay in the Bosom of his Father even then his Delights were with the Sons of Men then was his Heart full of Love to poor Sinners and his Love brought him down from Heaven to Earth to assume Humane Nature to take upon him all the Sins of his People to bear them on his Soul and Body in the Garden there sweating great drops of Blood and on the Cross there pouring out his Heart-Blood made a Curse endured the full measure of the Wrath of God due for Sin and became the Ransom of Souls Philip. 2. 6 7 8. Luke 22. 44. Gal. 2. 20. He loved us and gave himself for us Loved us and washed us from our Sins in his Blood Rev. 1. 6. 1 Pet. 1. 18. 1 Pet. 2. 24. Gal. 3. 13. Tit. 2. 14. But while I am writing these things I cannot but conceive an Indignation against my self and heartily wish I were filled with Shame Sorrow and Grief of Spirit that having read and heard so often of the surpassing Love of God the Father in giving his Son and so often of the unspeakable Love of Jesus and to be no more affected with it no more sensible of it to have my Affections no more stirred and moved no more quickned and warmed Alas my dead Heart my Adamantine Heart Lord sprinkle it with that Blood Lord shed abroad that Love of thine upon my Heart abundantly by the holy Ghost Lord Jesus manifest thy Love to me that I may love thee I am ashamed and pained for want of Love to God to Jesus O that I could believe thy Love to my Soul then I should not chuse but love thee Lord I believe help my Unbelief The consideration of this Love of God and of Christ is a means to work Faith try it I pray you and you will find it so Direct IV. Fourthly Improve and act the Historical Faith you have on the Doctrines Promises and Threatnings in the
his Heart and who will in his due time make all the World know that his People are as dear to him as the Apple of his Eye Trust then depend and rely upon God in Christ and by an holy Confidence resign up your Wills to his Will to do what he would have us do to be what he would have us be to suffer what he would have us suffer and then Heart-trouble will cease and sweet Peace cometh when having trusted all with God we can in heart say Lord if thou wilt have me poor disgraced imprisoned diseased deprived of my dearest Friends I am content to be so I trust all my Concerns with Thee O the sweet peace and quiet that will be in that Soul There is the Almightiness the Wisdom Goodness Love Mercy and Faithfulness of God in Christ for us to trust in and to rely upon a Bottom and Foundation strong enough to build our Confidence upon in all Storms and Streights God hath also made many exceeding great and precious Promises in his Word and not a naked Promise but he hath entred into Covenant with us founded upon full satisfaction by the Blood of Jesus and confirmed it with an Oath Heb. 6. 17. and to this Covenant sealed by the Blood of his Son he hath added the Seals of the Sacraments and all this that the Heirs of the Promises namely All true Believers night have strong Consolation and be cured of all their Heart-troubles Upon this sure Foundation then must our Faith act in an holy Confidence in God and in Christ the Soul being taken off from all other Objects carried out of Self unto God and Christ who presently as soon as trusted in communicate themselves and their love and goodness to the Soul filling it with peace strength and settlement By this trusting in God we honour God most and best provide for our own safety The way then whereby Faith quieteth the Soul and cures it of its Troubles is by raising it above all Disquietments and pitching it solely upon God in Christ and thereby uniting it to God in Christ from whence it draws Vertue and Strength to subdue what ever troubleth its Peace For the Soul is made for God and never finds Rest till it return unto and settle and center it self upon him again And that we may thus place our Confidence in God and Christ for all supplies we must most earnestly beg cry and seek to God for Grace and Strength so to do we must trust in God aloneâ— for all things and at all times and thus by appropriating God to us and Christ to us and placing our Confidence in them we may be cured of alâ— our Heart-troubles The Application 1. For Information These Inferences follow First If Faith acted upon God in Christ be such a Remedy against Heart-trouble then surely Faith is a very precious a very excellent thing a Grace of very great worth and value and of great use and efficacy It is precious Faith indeed the very Trial of it is more precious than Gold 1 Pet. 1. 7. Precious for its Author the Lord Jesus for its Object precious Jesus and all the exceeding great and precious Promises the purchased Inheritance For its Offices it unites to us Christ gives us Title to eternal Life it supports under all Afflictions prevents or cures all Heart-troubles and precious for its End which is the Salvation of our Souls Eph. 3. 17. Heb. 11. 39. 1 Pet. 1. 9. This Grace of Faith is of a transforming spiritual Nature and the Soul of a Believer by acting it on God and Christ and on Divine Heavenly and Spiritual things becomes Divine Heavenly and Spiritual Faith unfastneth the Heart from the Creature shewing the Soul the Vanity of it and carries the Soul unto God and Christ shewing it God's All-sufficiency and Christ's All-fulness for Faith believes what God in his Word hath revealed of both It is the great Design of God in all the Troubles he sends upon his People effectually to teach them the exceeding Vanity of the Creature to imbitter the things of this World to them to wean their Hearts from them to bring earthly things out of Request with them to make them see that there is no true Contentment nor solid Satisfaction for the Soul to be found in them and to make them see where true Happiness and Contentment is to be had even in God and in Christ alone for whom their Souls were Created Redeemed and Sanctified Now the great Work of Faith is to take off the Soul from the Creature and fix and settle it upon God and Christ the true Foundation Naturally our Hearts hang loose from God and cleave to the Creature and when the Creature fails our Hearts are troubled but Faith takes off the Heart from the Creature and settles it upon God in Christ where it finds Rest and this is the great Service it doth us All the great and famous things which those Worthies did and all the hard and heavy things they suffered mentioned in Heb. 11. were all done and suffered by the Power of Faith ver 37 c. The setling of our Hearts upon God in Christ trusting all there is the best means to cure our Heart-trouble and this Faith doth and therefore it is precious Secondly It follows from the Premisses That the want of Faith in God and in Christ is the Great Cause of all our Heart-Troubles Despondencies and Disquietness Could we but act our Faith strongly on God and Christ as our God in Christ our Troubles would be prevented or cured For by Faith the Soul looks up to God in Christ through the Promises looking off from all other Supports unto God for all Supplies for the removing of all Evil felt or feared and for the obtaining of all Good promised and needed and by this exercise of Faith the Soul is raised up above all Discouragements and Disquietments but where this Faith is wanting or the lively exercise of it suspended there the Soul sinks under Heart-Troubles But of this some-what was said before Thirdly Hence also we may clearly see the absolute Necessity of getting Faith in God and in Christ and of acting it and living by it There is no living quietly and comfortably without it no standing under our Burdens no bearing with Patience and Chearfulness our Losses and Crosses without this Faith no Joy and Peace but by believing by Faith we stand Fourthly Then the Things of the World are not to be trusted to nor trusted in for Comfort in time of Trouble Nothing but God and Christ to be trusted in and trusted to and there is enough in them to support and comfort us as hath been shewed but no confidence to be put in the Creature there is a Curse upon such Confidence but a Blessing on them that trust in God No trusting in Friends Riches Gifts or any thing for so to do is Idolatry to give that to the Creature which is due to God alone Fifthly Hence we see
and fully to satisfy our Souls O my Beloved and O my base and faithless Heart it is our base Vnbelief that doth us all the mischief that spoils our Peace that hinders our Comfort and makes us walk so heavily O let us bewail this God-dishonouring Sin this Peace-destroying Sin and let us who have received Jesus for our Lord and Saviour believe that he is ours indeed and that we are his indeed and then act our Faith upon him and our Hearts shall not be troubled Q. But may some say 'T is true if Christ be ours all is ours we believe that But how shall we know that Christ is ours A. Briefly thus If we be Christ's intirely and sincerely Christ's theâ— Christ is ours I am my Beloved's anâ— my Beloved is mine Cant. 2. 16. 6. 3. Her being Christ's was a sure evidence to her that Christ was hers Now it is not very hard to know whose we are whether we be Christ's or our own Christ's or the World's Christ's oâ— the Devil's Let us take a little paiâ—â— in trying and searching our selves the Matter requires it Whose are we Put this Question seriously to our Hearts in the sight of God Whose am I whose Image do I bear by whose Spirit am I acted who hath my Heart my chief Love and Delight Have we unfeignedly given up our selves to Christ Have we actually entred into Covenant with him and taken him for our Head and Husband Have we passed over and surrendred up our whole selves to Christ our Souls Bodies all our Concerns Have we given up our Hearts Heads Tongues Time Talents Estates Libeâ—ties Relations and all to Christ Have we done this sincerely Then we have received Christ upon his Terms If we be Christ's and not our own and live unto Christ and not to our selves Rom. 14. 9. 1 Cor. 6. 20. Gal. 2. 20. and are content that Christ should dispose of us and ours as he pleaseth and are always labouring to be more and more like him and still longing for more and more Communion with him c. Then may we upon good Grounds conclude that Christ is ours If we be his he is ours Again if we truly believe in Christ then he is ours for it is by Faith that we receive him and are united to him and made one with him John 1. 12 13. and are by his Spirit and Word regenerated and made new Creatures and are enabled to walk after the Spirit and not after the Flesh 2 Cor. 5. 17. Rom. 8. 1 2. He that believeth hath the Witness in himself 1 John 5. 10. he need not go far to seek Make sure thy believing in Christ and thou hast the Witness in thy self that he is thine and that thou art his Q. But how shall we know that we have true Faith and that we do truly believe in Christ A. Briefly thus If we have been made sensible of our lost Condition by Nature of our misery by Sin of our Unbelief if we have found it an hard Work to believe if we have been made weary and heavy-laden with Sin so as to be truly willing to part with all Sin if we have been convinced of our absolute need of Christ and of his incomparable Excellency of his All-sufficiency and willingness to save us if Christ be most precious to us if these Convictions have been powerful in us to drive us from our Selves and the Creature and Sin if we have hereupon been perswaded and enabled sincerely to come unto Christ upon his Call in the Gospel to accept of him upon his Terms and to receive him as he is offered to us in the Gospel if our whole Hearts have opened to him and closed with him and we have given up our whole selves entirely to him and taken him for our only Lord and Saviour as the only way to God and do most sincerely resign up our selves to his Government trusting in him alone and relying upon him for Life and Righteousness for Grace and Glory then we do believe in him then have we this true Faith which is further to be known thus that it worketh in us true sincere Love to him and to all that is his his Word his People your Hearts will run out after him all your Affections will center in him This true Faith draws Vertue from Christ to purify the Heart and works Sanctification and Holiness it doth crucify your Affections to the World it works true Repentance and enables you to overcome the World and to realize the Glory of Heaven and to bear us up under all the Troubles in our way thither as in that 11th to the Hebrews enabling us to trust and betrust our selves our Souls and Bodies and all our Concernments with Christ by this Faith we shall stand by it we walk by it we live and hold on and hold out in following the Lamb to the end of of our Life Heb. 10. 38 c. Now certainly he that thus believes in Christ hath no cause of Heart-trouble but quietly submits to the good Will of his God in Christ under all the Dispensations of his Providence while he is here in this Vale of Tears until he come home to his Father's House in Peace where he shall meet his dearest Lord and an hearty welcome O this Faith this precious Faith in Christ will conquer all our base Fears moderate all our worldly Sorrows ease our Minds perplexed with earthly Cares and quiet our disturbed and distracted Thoughts about our outward Losses and Troubles By this Faith we shall find all our Losses made up in God and in Christ O then labour for it cry mightily to God for this great Gift cry to Jesus for it he is the Author and Finisher of it and labour to act it upon him continually and your Hearts shall not be troubled I dare affirm That if any thing bring Hearts-Ease in Heart-Trouble this will do it So long as our Faith holds up in Act and Exercise upon Christ we shall be free from Heart-trouble but when our Faith fails our Heart troubles prevail As when Moses lifted up his Hands and his Heart too by Faith Israel prevailed but when his Hands were down Amalek prevailed Faith and Heart-trouble are like a pair of Ballances when one goes up the other goes down Faith is the Counter-poize of Trouble of Heart Believe then in Jesus act Faith on him and that will prevent or cure Heart-trouble Continue in the Faith and your Heart-troubles will cease believe what Christ is and what he is to us Secondly Let us believe in Christ and believe where he is As to his Essential Presence he is in Heaven at the Father's right Hand making continual intercession for us to the Father Heb. 12. 2 3. Heb. 7. 25. He is our Advocate with the Father 1 John 2. 1 2. pleading our Cause presenting all our Services perfumed with his own Righteousness and resenting and feeling our Infirmities Sorrows and Sufferings sympathising with us In all our
unmindful of their Safety But that which should mostly affect us and make us take heed of immoderate worldly Sorrow is to consider that this kind of Sorrow of Heart is God's Curse imprecated on God's Enemies Lament 3. 65. Give them Sorrow of Heart thy Curse As godly Sorrow is God's Blessing a Grace of God's Spirit a Fruit of the Covenant of Grace and a Fruit of Faith Zech. 12. 10. So worldly Sorrow is God's Curse and a bitter Fruit of Vnbelief They that sorrow for Sin shall be comforted Matth. 5. 4. but they that mourn immoderately for outward Losses there shall be none to comfort them This is the first piece of Heart-Trouble which Jesus Christ hath forbidden Let not your Hearts be troubled that is not filled and overcome with worldly Sorrow what ever your Losses and Crosses be let not your Sorrow go beyond its lawful bounds take heed Let not your Hearts be troubled Secondly Another piece of Heart-Trouble is Sinful Fear And against this Distemper also Christ counselleth his Disciples Let not your Heart be troubled nor let it be afraid as ver 27. As if he had said Let not that distemper of base slavish Fear seize your Hearts This Fear is a Passion or rather a Perturbation of Mind whereby upon the sense of approaching Evils the Mind is discompos'd and disorder'd and the Heart troubled and dejected This Fear is a Tyrant where it comes and it tyrannizeth where it prevails as Job 4. 14 15. We read how it prevailed over that famous Believer the Father of Believers Abraham to his prejudice and to the Discredit of his Religion who for Fear denied his Wife once and again Gen. 12. and Gen. 20. And good Isaaâ— was taken in the same Fault Gen. 26. This Fear troubles Mens Peace and disquiets their Minds that they are saiâ— sometimes to be like the Leaves of the Forest and this Fear is often forbidder to Abraham Gen. 15. 1. And to Isaac Gen. 26. 24. And when Israel was in the greatest Dangers that ever Men were they were forbid to Fear Exod. 14. 13. Isa 8. 12. And in the New Testament our Lord strongly cautions against this Fear Luke 12. 4 32. Rev. 2. 10. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer Slavish Fear troubles the Heart more than any thing Object But may we not fear God's Judgments Did not good Josiah tremble at them And did not holy David say in Psal 119. 120. I am afraid of thy Judgments Answ Doubtless it is our Duties so to do When we see the same Sins abound for which God hath executed his Judgments in former times we ought to lay them to heart and to be affected Jer. 7. 12. Luk. 17. 26 c. Remember Lots Wife said our Lord. So 1 Cor. 10. 2 Pet. 2. 6. Rom. 1. 18. Zeph. 3. 6 7. a remakable Scripture Altho' it went well with Nehemiah himself yet had he a sad Resentment of the State of Jerusalem Nehem. 1. God's People have tender Hearts Wicked Men have Hearts of Stone when God smites them they are not grieved Jer. 5. 3. But we must distinguish of Fear 1. There is a Natural Lawful Fear when Evils are approaching to our Bodies or Names or Friends or the like Dangers are apparent 't is natural to fear This was in the best Men in the World it was in Christ himself Mark 12. 14 15. Also it is said He feared and was sore amazed Mar. 14. 33. yeâ— without Sin Secondly There is a lawful filial Fear of God's Judgments which ariseth from the consideration of the Evil of Sin and of God's Righteousness of his hatred of Sin and his wrath against it which Fear produceth Repentance Self-examination a turning to God with our whole Hearts thorow Reformation and an endeavour to secure our selves in God's Covenant and to hide our Selves Prov. 22. 3. A prudent Man foreseeth the Evil and hideth himself A striving to get into Christ and to get clear Evidences â—â— God 's Love to us in Christ I say such â— Fear that worketh these Effects is a great Duty Thirdly There is a base slavish Fear of approaching Evils arising from our Misapprehensions of God producing in us unworthy Thoughts sinking into Despondency and inciting to Murmuring and Impatience and putting us upon sinful Shifts the use of unlawful means to prevent or escape Dangers a Fear of Despondency a vexatious distracting Fear that drives from God and unfits for Service A tormenting disquieting Fear that unsettles and discomposeth our Minds disturbs our Peace suspends our Acts of Faith and disposeth us to diffidence distrust and impatience This is the Fear that Christ would not have his Peoples Heart troubled with Thirdly Another piece of Heart trouble is Care vexatious distracting Care which our Lord would not have his Disciples trouble themselves with and therefore he useth so many powerful Arguments to disswade them from it Matth. 6. from ver 25. onward 1st He assures us it is God that takes care for our bodily Life we trust him with that how much more should we for Food and Raiment 2ly Saith he Your Father takes care for the Fowls and provides for them Are ye not much better than they 3ly He clotheth the Lillies And will he not clothe you 4ly You cannot by all your care make your condition better than God hath appointed it shall be ver 27. 5ly Your heavenly Father knows you want all these things 6ly They that are ignorant of God and of his Fatherly Care and good Providence that have no God to care for them they trouble themselves with those Cares therefore you should not do so who have an heavenly Father that dearly loves you and looks after you 7ly Yoâ— have the Promise of the faithful God to have all Necessaries provided for you while you make it your care to Serve and Please and Trust him Ver. 23. All these things shall be added unto you 8ly We have no cause to be thoughtful for time to come because every day brings evil enough with it and therefore it is no wisdom to perplex our selves with Cares ver last So again Luke 21. 34. Phil. 4 6. Be careful in nothing Our Lord alsâ— shews us how prejudicial such Cares arâ— to our Profiting by the Word Mat. 13. 2â— And expresly commands us To cast oâ— Cares upon him for he careth for us 1 Peâ— 5. 7. Fourthly Despondency of Spirit Dejectedness Distrust Discouragement are other pieces of Heart-trouble Such as was in David Psal 142. 3 4 5. and 143. 4 and Psal 42. 5. Casting down breed Disquietment because it springs froâ— Pride which is a turbulent Passion anâ— every thing that crosseth and disappoint it causeth a Combustion in the Mind When a Man cannot come down anâ— stoop to that condition that God casts him into then is he discontented and this comes from his Pride A Christian should be very careful to keep up his Spirits when his condition in the World falls down Could we but bring
Gospel which you profess you do believe Act the Faith you have on the Doctrines of the Gospel the Promises of Rest for your Souls Pardon for your Sins Life and Righteousness Grace and Glory made to those that believe in Christ and to none else Believe and think what Heaven is that state of infinite Blessedness in the seeing and enjoying the Blessed God to all Eternity Believe what Eternal Life is Eternal Glory and believe also what Hell is Separation from God Go ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire Lakes of Fire and Brimstone everlasting Death the Wrath of God Damnation And seeing you profess that you believe all this then believe also and consider it well that neither is Heaven's infinite Happiness to be attained nor Hell's unspeakable Misery to be avoided but only by believing in the Lord Jesus Christ John 3. 16 17 36. John 8. 24. Direct V. Fifthly Would yoâ— have Faith then seek it diligently pray O pray for it as for your Lives cry mightily to God for it pour out your Hearts to God in Prayer for it pray continually for Faith pray without ceasing be importunaâ—â—â—ith God for it go all Day and â—â—ght panting and breathing after iâ— O that God would give me Faith Go to Jesus also for it cry to him for he is the Author as well as the Object of it Heb. 12. 1 2. It is the Gift of God O pray for it Direct VI. Lastly Consider seriously and often how wonderful willing God is that you should believe in Christ as you have heard and how much he is displeased with those that will not believe in him and how dreadfully he hath threatned them as Rev. 21. 8. Also consider how exceeding willing Jesus Christ himself is that poor Sinners should come to him and believe iâ— him how sweetly he calls them how freely he offers himself and All he is to them be they never so bad never so vile and wicked He every one that thirsteth Isa 55. 1. they that have no worthiness in them nothing but Sin and Misery John 6. 37. and 7. 37. Rev. 3. 18. and 21. 11. O set your Hearts to the consideration of the incomparable unparallel'd Love of Jesus in dying that cursed Death of the Cross for Sinners Consider and meditate hold your Hearts to it until your Hearts be affected with his Love his Love that passeth the Love of Women Love passing Understanding and consider how well he deserves and how much he challengeth your Love Consider once again what a most lovely Person Jesus is who is altogether lovely the Brightness of his Father's Glory in whom dwells all Fulness Heb. 1. 3. and in whom is all Power in Heaven and Earth Matth. 28. 18. and labour to affect your Hearts with his most admirable Excellencies and then come unto him weary and heavy laden with your Sins willing to part with them all give up your whole selves to him give him your whole Hearts and take him for your Head and Husband for your only Lord and Saviour enter actually into Covenant with him to become his and his alone and his for ever Thus work out your Salvation and youâ— Consolation by believing in Jesus in Blessed All-sufficient Jesus trusting to him betrusting all with him and God will work in you both to will and to do Phil. 2. 12 13. 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