abate and yet Noah by faith knew he should see them quite down at length though long first And surely through his faith these waters hasted away to their proper places for in the last day they abated eleven Cubits which abated but one in four Days before By this which hath been said we see that Faith looketh through matters temporal though never so dark and difficult Secondly Faith looketh through matters spiritual though never so dark and difficult As the power of natural corruption the sense of God's wrath c. Faith can look through the power of natural corruption than which what is a greater Mountain in the eye of an enlighten'd Soul O wretched Man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord Rom. 7.24 25. Faith hath a strong and clear eye that can look through such a big and black Mountain as the body of death is Satan and corrupt nature are called the strong man and his goods Mat. 12.29 and Christ spoils them both and this faith seeth when both natural corruption and Satan are at strongest But I see another Law in my members willing against the Law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the Law of sin which is in my members O wretched man what a wretched state am I in And who can or who will deliver me out of this slavery and faith answers this hard question I thank God Christ can and will he that is mighty to save on whom help for me is laid To this may properly be added Rom. 6.11 Likewise reckon ye your selves also to be dead indeed to sin but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Faith doth reckon the body of fin dead and all the Powers of it because that is done by Christ's death to procure it a Cure that never failed What shall we then say if God be for us who can be against us or what can be against us But God be thanked ye were the servants of fin but now ye have obeyed from the heart the forme of Doctrin into which ye were delivered Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my Mother warm me behold thou desirest truth in the inward parts and in that inward hidden part thou shalt make me to understand wisdome that is experience the power of grace for by wisdom is meant grace Psal 51 5.6 By wisdom is meant grace and by knowing of wisdom means experiencing of grace Which sheweth to us that he by faith saw thorow the power of natural corruption and all the grieving operations and prevalencies of it and that the state of his inward man which was so ungracious and which had so deceived him and betrayed him in that matter of Vriah should notwithstanding be brought to a better and a more sincere frame for time to come Hence it is likewise that the Apostle Paul speaks of the work of Mortification as done which yet is still but a doing as long as we are on this side Heaven as seeing by faith every accursed thing in his heart slain They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts That is certainly they shall The Beasts of the Field shall honor me the Dragons and Owles because I give this and that in the Wildeâ—ness Isa 43.20 That is Creatures by Nature as blind as Owles and yet as confident and fiery as Dragons these shall see and become as tame that a little Child may lead them Jacob blessed Ruben that went up to his Fathers Bed and Simeon and Levy which had been such Brethren in evil and this he did by faith saith the Author to the Hebrews which sheweth that he saw thorow those corruptions wherwith they were over-taken the one with lightness the other with passion and fury and that God would change all their hearts both of the one and of the other and make them gracious and doubtless in his light the Children come at length to see light and by his faith were helped to believe Secondly Faith looketh thorow the sense of God's wrath which is he darkest and most dreadful thing or all Christ did so and he did it by faith when he cryed My God my God c. David's sin in the matter of Bathsheba as much clouded his Soul as any thing and filled his soul with the sense of Gods displeasure and yet he saw thorow that dark Cloud by faith as you may see 2 Sam. 12.23 But now he is dead wherefore should I fast Can I bring him back again I shall go to him but he shall not return to me By faith he saw God reconciled as to this foul business yea reconciled to the Childe that was smitten dead or else he would not have wiped his eyes and have said I shall go to him but would have continued weeping and after the death of the Child most of all as he did for Absalom whom he gave up for a castaway They made the figure or the Sun upon Joshua's Tomb to preserve the Memorial of that great Miracle of causing the Sun to stand still Therfore also the place of his dwelling was called Timnath Serath or Here 's which witâ— some Letters transpos'd is as you should say the sign of the Sun upon the Tomb of a believer you may make the figure of Gods face and favour for when he is in the belly of Hell as Jona yet from thence he espies a reconciled God and his own everlasting mercies sure though these here be all uncertain Wilt thou be angry with us for ever wilt thou draw out thy wrath to all generations wilt thou not revive us again that thy People may rejoyce in thee I will hear what the Lord God will say for he will speak peace to his People and to his Saints but let them not return again to folly Psal 85.8 The People of God were very low at this time even as in their Graves and Tombes and yet there is the figure of Gods countenance even on their Graves they saw peace when there was nothing but War Who will bring me into the strong City Who will bring me into Edom Wilt not thou O God which hadst cast us off and thou O Lord which didst not go forth with our Armies Psal 60.10 Thirdly Faith looks thorow matters National as well as Personal though never so dark and difficult Thou will save the affâ—â—â—cted People but wilt bring down high looks for thou wilt light my Candle the Lord my God will enlighten my darkness for by thee I have ran thorow a Troop Psal 18.27 This Esaluâ— was made saith the Title when David was deliver'd out of the hands of all his Enemies and out of the hands of Saul so that it hath a National reference and respect David saw thorow all National conflicts as to the godly that how much distressed soever they were yet that God would own them and save them For thou wilt save the afflicted People
only to roar and cry out when we are beaten and over-burden'd he teacheth us to believe and to expect Songs to be given in the darkest Night Job 35.9 The true state and life of man is not to be shaken with tumults and distresses nor be lifted up with prosperity and ease said the Heathen and what can poise and even the Soul thus in all conditions but faith by which we know how to abound and how to want how to be high when low and how to be low when high if faith have its perfect work so will patience and then the Soul is entire and wanteth nothing no though all the things of this World he wanting Likewise we may learn from hence that we are never gone and quite undone till faith be gone For loe they lie in wait for my Soul the mighty are gathered against me they return at Evening they make a noise like a Dog and go round about the City behold they belch out with their mouth Swords are in their Lips for who saith he doth hear But thou O Lord shalt laugh at them thou shalt have all the Heathen in derision because of his strength will I wait upon thee for God is my defence Psal 59.9 The God of my mercy shall prevent me he shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies Things were very bad indeed when the wicked were at this height that they could belch out any thing and run every where as Dogs and tear God and Man and yet David was not quite ruined Because of thy strength I will wait upon thee A believer is strong enough as long as God is strong and wise enough as long as God is wise and rich enough as long as God is rich and lively enough as long as God lives Hanibal offered himself to make War with the Romans without an Army saith Seneca And truly a believer will himself make War with all enemies in the World and without any Army only by the strength of God and is never at a loss for an Army nor Counsel nor Provisions but saith as that Father of believers God will provide God will fight for you and ye shall hold your peace said Moses in a great strait Cain was not utterly lost when he had committed murder for so had David done But when he rejected the offer of grace and desired death as a despairing Creature He had a most glorious offer of grace Gen. 4.7 And if thou dâ—st well shalt thou not be accepted or certainly accepted and though thou dost not well yet a sin-offering lieth at the door so it should be read saith a great Scholar in the Languages of the Scripture Dr. Lightfoot And this great offer of grace he despised and so forsook his own Mercy and desired Death through a proud dogged spirit having lost the honour which was given to Abel Now therefore let it be that any one that fudeth me may kill me So should these words be read saith the same Author And now and not till now was Cain quite undone Use 2 This Doctrine in the next place may be for reproof and it may be for reproof of unbelief upon any account whatsoever seeing faith looks through all matters whatever As for the Jebusite the Inhabitants of Jerusalem the Children of Israel could not drive them out but they dwell there to this day Judg. 15.63 David along while after drove them out And why could not these lame and blind be driven out It was their unbelief The enemy had gotten a strong Fort and the advantage of that City Jerusalem and yet had they had faith they might have lookt thorow these Forts and Rocks of Jerusalem and have conquer'd it as they did Jerico and other places as strong by faith Their sin was the same with Rubens Dan and Asher Sisaâ—'s Host was great and therefore they could not see through them and over them For the divisions of Ruben there were great thoughts of heart Gilead abode beyond Jordan and why did Dan abide in Ships Ashar continued on the Sea shore and abode in his breaches Judg. 5.16 17. Distresses are of several magnitudes but yet how great soever they be faith should be such as to master them and look thorow them but when it is not so then men betake them to their self ish shifts and every one is but for one Why did Ashar abide in his breacher 'T is a grand evil of this time every Man seeks his own and stands with all he hath to make up his own breaches but as to the publick and the common calamity of others Who hath a Heart or a Purse or a Hand which speaks plainly our unbelief and that we do not see through the dark Clouds which are come upon us but say in our hearts as David I shall one time or other surely perish by this and that great tryal and these Sons of Anack are walled up to Heaven and no dealing with them Necessity saith one of the Heathen maketh us more violent than valorous There are amongst us through many necessities many violencies both inward and outward spiritual and corporal unto great hurt every way but little true valour that which flows from faith which is that that doth business as we have seen Secondly This Scripture reproveth giving way to unbelief We flatter our selves in our unbelief as Jona in his passion and in many cases very desperately we think we do well to be unbelievers whereas the greater the difficulties be the more our duty is to believe Curse ye Meros curse ye bitterly that they came not out in a plunge to help the Lord against the mighty Judg. 5.23 If thou think some great tryal shall encounter thee â—aith Seneca do not flinch but comfort thy self with this that surely thy death and suffering is of some great importance Great distress is no warrant for us to make great consult with flesh and blood but great consults with the promises and with our own experiâ—nces and to call much upon a cowardly and deceitful heart Why art thou cast down O my Soul hope in God for I shall yet see better things than these If unbelief were as profitable as it is self-pleasing and that it would further escapes out of distresses one might through self-love give way to it as Men do to many gainful sins but it doth not this but rather obstrucâ—e caâ—â—s as our Fathers unbelief in the Wilderness upon every occasion it caused God to swear against them that they should dye in the Wilderness It is not the giving way to unbelief but the exciting faith what ever the difficulty be that is the likely way to make escape As Caleb and Joshua said We be well able to deal with them for God is departed from them and they are bread for us and this is called following of God fully which God took well and honoured them with escapes from all dangers and they enjoyed the good Land To this agrees that Psal 37.40 And
to give way to unbelief They that do not wait on the Lord will surely not keep his way and they that do not keep his way will not be exalted to inherit the good Land Heathenisme began at Babel when the Hebrew Tongue was lost at the confusion of Tongues only to one Family was God and Salvation preached And when this was lost Religion was lost with it and all the Earth became strangers to God and so lay 2203 Years till the gift of Tongues at Zion began to be given to preach the Gospel in every Language we may in this Glass see our black face at this day So I may say that all transgression even unto Heathenisme begins at unbelief What will not an unbeliever be drawn unto and consequently all misery begins here too and neither the one nor the other begin to be removed till God begin to work faith in the Soul And therefore I say again and say some thing more than I did you cannot give way to unbelief and be innocent you cannot give way to unbelief but you give way to all sin and unto all misery See Rom. 11.23 And they shall be graffed in again if they abide not still in unbelief Try your selves therefore by this Point Do you believe Do you look thoâ—â—â— the dark matters oâ— your conditâ—oâ— And behold a Woman which was diseased with an issue of blood Twelve Years came behind Christ and touched the Hem of his Garment for she said within her self if I may but touch his Garment I shall be whâ—le Mat. 7.21 What talk within your selves have you touching your dâ—stâ—â—sses inward and outward whereâ—n you are If I could lean in the â—â—ast on this woâ—d of promâ—se surely I should enter into rest surely I shou'd be maâ—e whole of this wickedness and that Running issue which hath run in my nature above Twelve Years without Cure I will name only one Promise for instance Rom. 11.26 And so all Israel shall be saved as it is written I here shall come out of Zion the Deliverer and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob for this is my Covenant with them when I shall take away their sins What a deal of scarlet guilt is upon the Jew And as for natural corruption how wilfully blind how stubborn in and their sins and yet the Apostle Paul by vertue of the Promise looks 〈◊〉 wall and seeth the condition of these forlorne sinners a condition remed able that 't is â—â—t Immedicabile Vulâ—us Do you in your reading the Scriptures make a stand at any promise or â—â—uâ—able word to your condition and say within your selves O that I could but touch this Hem of Christ's Garment If I could but believe in this word I should be whole I should overcome such a sin which hath so oft overcome me all my ungodliness both of guilt and filth would be turned away Whiâ—st Simeon he just lived the Fire on the Altar ever burnt pleasantly but when he dyed its force abated saith the Jewish History Simon the just was a great believer and did Miracles saith Euschius and very Holy and Heavenly Where faith indeed is that Heavenly Fire of love and zeal to God will burn in the heart very bright and clear according to that excellent speech of David I have hoped for thy Salvation and do thy Commandement Psal 119.166 And as faith fails so this Heavenly Fire on the Altar goes out so a Mans skill and his conscience to please God dye both together Secondly Are you able to look thorow outward troubles and difficulties and dark matters as they lye now in these and other Nations Can you stand on your high places and see now beyond this thick Cloud of the Pestilence and other evils that are upon us Can you say O thou Enemy destructions are come to a perpetual end or saith the margent The destructions of the Enemy are come to a perpetual end Theâ—r Cities hast thoâ— destroyed Psal 9 6. The wicked shall be turned into Hell and all that forget God there they will be quite out of the way For the needy shall not alway be forgotten the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever v. 17.18 The Ticle of this Psalm is Muth Labben the Death of some great Enemy which Ainsworth saith to be Anti Christ Anti-Christ is now more alive than ever in all the parts of Christendom he is a man of good eyes that now can see his death and downfall and all his Cities even Rome it self that great City which Ruleth the Nations The first thing that dyed in the World was Christ in the offering of our first Parents whose skins cloathed them And the last that dyeth in the World will be Anti-Christ who cloatheth himself in scarlet with the skins of the Saints Hence was Christ called a Lamb slain from the beginning and therefore may Anti-Christ be calleâ— a Bear or Beast slain in the end of the World But who seeth now in this dark and dismal Hour the death of this Monster I remember not long since in the days of the great Armies then we all talkt of the downfall of Anti-Christ But who seeth his downfall now There is no Rain so great that watereth the Earth above so far Ten Foot deep saith the Naturalist I think the storms which have fallen of late in these parts have soakt our Souls and Bodies and Estates and all that is dear clear thorow yea our faith and all our graces for we can scarce look through any thing well But when exhorted to trust in the Lord at all times as David saith we are ready to say as the Princes of Succoth to Gideon are Zeba and Zâ—lmunna now in our hands that we shouâ—d do so and so Judg. 8.6 Who saith Although the Fig Tree shall not blossom neither fâ—uit be in the Vines thâ—ugh the labour of the Olive shall fail and the Fields shall yield no meat the Flocks shall be cut off from the Folds and no Herd in the Stalls yet will I rejoyce in the God of my Salvation Hab 3.17 8 Yet this is no more but the proper acts oâ— faith If you say you do not thus believe so as to look thorow dark condâ—tâ—ons and things neither spiritual nor temporal Let me ask you do you not thuâ— sometimes No not at any time can I thus believe Elian compares Tyrants to Swine which if a Man but touch they cry thinkâ—ng they shall be kiâ—led Is it thus with you when God doth but touch you in this and that Do ye cry as if he mâ—ant to kill you in alâ— What do you do then in your trials throw off alâ— David was not wont to do so but when all things failed to call upon his Soul to trust only in God I willâ—â—g in the stâ—ength of the Lord God I will make mention of thy righteousness even of thine only and will hope continually and will yet praise thee more and more Psal 71.14 15 16. Whether the Gods be pleased
such as fear him on them that hope in his mercy Psal 33.18 The Pome-citron grows besides all waters and the tast of the wood is like the tast of the fruit saith the Naturalist But I cannot say so of faith of this faith that I am upon that it growes in every soul though almost every one will pretend to it This Flower growes in a Garden of Flowers in a state renewed in knowledge in repentance in wounds healed Depart from me ye workers of iniquity for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping Psal 6 8. One cleares his eyes to make this excellent eye-sight by contrite weeping There is a peculiar instruction from the Lord to learn this mystery of faith and of believing in all cases When Isaiah saw his own sin and the Peoples his heart sank Woe is me for I am undone saith the margent cut off then there flew one of the Seraphims to him having a live Coal in his hand which he had taken from the Altar and he laid it on my mouth and said this hath touched thy Lips and thine iniquity is taken away and thy sin is purged Isa 6.8 9. How helpful the Angels may be to others in such matters I cannot tell Consult Isa 8 18 and peruse the Dutch Notes upon these words Behold I and the Children which thou hast given me The true Emanuel Christ speaketh to the Prophet in these words and comforts him in his suffering by his own example and so all God's Children who are all lyable to like troubles So that we are to appâ—ehend that Christ is ready in strong tryals to gâ—ve us strong instruction and to comfort us with the same comforts wherewith he himself and God's Children in every Age have been comforted though this may be to some more and to some less as Christ pleaseth I saw by Night and behold a Man riding upon a red Horse and he stood among the Myrtles in the bottom Zech. 1 8. This phrase I saw by night signifieth saith Interpreters that they saw their restauration but it was but darkly and it was by the help of him that appeared among the Myrtles in the bottom which was Christ Finally By the wickedness of the wicked the People of God get up to this height of believing to look through all the dark Clouds of their condition Not for thy righteousness or for the uprightness of thy heart dost thou go in to possess their Land but for the wickedness of these Nations doth the Lord thy God drive them out before thee and that he may perform the word which he sware to thy Father Abraham Isaac and Jacob 9.5 That which is the reason of God's doing a thing may be the reason of our faith and hope that it shall be done Now the very notorious wickedness of the wicked is the reason why he cuts them off and puts others in their place and therefore from the wickedness of the wicked may faith be strengthned and helped to see their overthrow and consequently the escape of the godly Hezekid saw his escape and the downfall of the enemy Senacherib by this very thing namely by their wickedness their great out rage and blasphemy and malice against God his People and worship at Jerusalem And they spake against the God of Jerusalem as against the Gods of the People of the Earth which were the work of the hands of Men. For this cause Hezekia the King and the Prophet Isaiah prayed and cryed to Heaven and the Lord sent an Angel and cut them off 2 Chro. 32.19.20 'T is good History to compare with this 1 Maccabes 7.41 Nicanor carryed himself against the Lord and his People as Senacherib and abused the Priests of the Lord and laughed at all their worship and threatned that if they did not deliver Judas Maccabeus into his hands and all his Host he would destroy the Temple and Priests and all the People And by his height of wickedness the poor Jewes saw his fall and went to God by prayer and urged the story of Senacherib to him saying O Lord when they that were sent from the King of Assyria blasphemed thine Angell went out and smote an hundred four score and five thousand of them even so destroy thou this Host this day that the rest may know that he hath spâ—ken blasphemously against thy Sanctuary and judge thou him according to his wickedness And as they prayed so God did destroy them all and they smote off Nicanor's Head and right hand and hanged them up towards Jerusalem So let all thine Enemies perish O God and so let all thy People learn to pray and to believe Amen FINIS BOOKS Sold by Dorman Newman at his Shop at the King's Arms and Bible in the Poultry Quarto THe Christian Man's calling or a Treatise of making Religion ones business wherein the Christian is directed to perform in all religious duties natural actions particular vocations family directions and in his own recreations in all relations in all conditions in his dealings with all Men in the choice of his company both of evil and good in solitude on a week day from morning to night in visiting the sick and on a dying Bed By George Swinnock Mr. Caril's Exposition on the Book of Job Gospel Remission or a Treatise shewing that true blessedness consists in the pardon of sin By Jeremiah Burroughs An Exposition of the Song of Solomon By James Durham late Minister in Glasgow The real Christian or a Treatise of effectual calling wherein the work of God in drawing the soul to Christ being opened according to the holy Scriptures some things required by our late Divines as necessary to a right preparation for Christ and a true closing with Christ which have caused and do still cause much trouble to some serious Christians and are with due respect to those worthy Men brought to the ballance of the Sanctuary there weighed and accordingly judged to whâ—ch is added a few words concerning Socinianism By Giles Firmin sometimes Minister at Shalford in Essex Mount Pisgah or a Prospect of Heaven being an Exposition on the fourth Chapter of the first Epistle of St. Paul to the Thessalonians By Tho Case sometimes Student in Christ Chuâ—ch Oxon and Minister of the Gospel The vertue and value of Baptism By Zach. 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the Lord shall help them and deliver them he shall deliver them from the wicked and save them because they trust in him If giving way to unbelief in the least had been pleasing to God he would not have made the promise first to our Parents before he came to pronounce the curse upon them Now giving way to unbelief consists in two things construing all things in the worst and hardest sense our own matters towards God and God's matters towards us I have been a stubborn rebellious â—retch and surely God will never have mercy upon me Observe Moses upon thâ—s theme Destroy not this People remember Abraham Isaac and Jacob look not on the stubbornness of this People nor to theiâ— wickedness nor to their sin Deut 9.27 Ne respicias ad dutitiem the hardness that is the â—mâ—eâ—â—tency of this People but thy Covenant with Abraham And this is the great thing only to be eyed by poor guilty wretches O sirs such and such sins were nothing if I could be humbled for them but I am of a very hard heart Be it so yet should you believe in the word of promise that is in that God which hath said he will give a heart of flesh This People hath finn'd and they cannot repent saith Moses do not therefore look upon them for there is no loveliness in them but look upon thy promise to Abraham to be a God to him and to his Seed and what cannot a God do to mend the heart of man Lamech having made himself guilty of Polygamie reflected upon the sin of Cain as is thought of which Loin he was and consters himself a far more guilty wretch than Cain for that Cain had only slain one and that only his body but Lamech had destroyed many soul and body both by his evil example which now so generally was followed in the World and a hastner of the worlds destruction so that if Cain was to be avenged seven-fold for his fin Lamech surely for his fin was to be avenged seventy times seven fold this is the sense of this Scripture as an able Expositor judgeth Sure I am that thus do poor guilty wretches please themselves to look upon all their sins in a very multiplying glass and to see them greater than any others and so conclude that if such and such despaired I have much more reason and this is no other but giving way to unbelief The Jews observe much how the providence of God complyed with the fire upon the Altar that it never went out they say that the Rain of Heaven though never so great never did put it out so we should much observe how the Lord by his Providence in his Word and Works complies with the weakness of our faith to strengthen and to preserve it that it go not out quite out and not be severely catching at every thing to weaken and to destroy our faith as if God's thoughts were as narrow as ours Secondly Way is given to unbelief when all wit and parts are used to argue down faith And the Angel of the Lord did wonderously and Manoah and his Wife looked on But the Angel of the Lord did no more appear to Manoah nor to his Wife then he knew it was an Angel of the Lord And Manoah said to his Wife we shall surely die because we have seen God Judg. 13.19 20. God sometimes doth wonderously own us in all our ways and holdeth up our hearts evâ—n by sense he is so for us in every thing Another while he seems to be as much against us and Manoah that did look on and see God do wonderously seeth him no more and now the improsperous Man concludes that he shall die And just thus do many when God upholds them not by sense but with draws and seems to be as much against them as for them then conclude surely God is our Enemy and will destroy us and all is naught Sineca saith that there is no universal thunder I may say so in morals When God doth most against wicked Men yet some things of kindness he doth as we see in the example of Pharaoh And so on the other hand there is no universal Sun shine when God doth most for any Child of his yet he shall have exercise and tryal enough one way or other and therefore to argue when things do not run so stilly and calmly as they did that therefore God doth not respect us is to give way to unbelief The people of Israel as they were espying out their way met with many difficulties And they turn'd and went up the way of Bashan and Og the King of Bashan went out against them and all his People And the Lord said to Moses fear not for I will deliver him into thine hand and all his People and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Sihon King of the Amorites Num. 21.33 'T is just thus spiritually as a tempted Christian is spying out his way to Heaven out starts some Og some strong lust or Devil and then is he ready to fear and despair and mistrust all and conclude all is naught and will be worse and worse which is arguing down faith from sense and giving way to unbelief The High Priest was train'd up against the day of expiation to learn how to take up his handful of Incense and lay it one the Altar and so how to order himself in every thing and was kept in a Room of purpose separated with abstinence so should you rather conster that you are training up to your Priestly work by your tryals how to take up your handful of Incense I mean the Promises and lay them on the Altar Christ and so make a sweet Saviour of rest to God and to your Souls That you may not upon any account give way to unbelief know that you cannot do so and be innocent that is free from sin in so doing There are two things that are indispensable duties as long as we live and that is to wait on the Lord and to keep his way to which the blessing is certainly fixed and no difficulty shall make it void The wicked watcheth the righteous and seeketh to slay him the Lord will not leave him in his hand nor condemn him when he is judged What is the use to be made of this read the next words Wait on the Lord and keep his way and he shall exalt thee to inherit the Land when the wicked are cut off thou shalt see it Psal 37.32 33 34. There are two parts in Religion faith and obedience that we walk in all Gods ways and yet not rest in this but in Christ by faith and this we ought in all weathers to do and the good event of these is certain God will exalt us to inherit the Land flowing with Milk and Hony i.e. All good God will give us a lift to the possession of all that he hath promised And therefore it is to destroy all Religion and the recompence of reward too