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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

on mee shall your hearts be established Secondly God doth engage himselfe by Covenant to forgive the iniquity of his people and to remember their sins no more Now to beleeve God in this his own Covenant how exceedingly will it establish the soule there is nothing like sinne and iniquity to make an earth-quake and a soule quake If God once brings a soule or a Land to account with him for sinne and iniquity that will make dreadfull shakings indeed so on the contrary where God acquits from sinne and iniquity he makes rest and establishment for it is sinne that is the troubler of Israel but when God in his Covenant of grace shall engage himselfe to pardon and acquit soules from sinne such soules as receives this Covenant of God and believes that he hath and will make it good to them will surely be at rest But this is not all for God Covenants further with his people That he will put his law in our inward parts and write it in our hearts so that he will be our God and that wee shall be his people Now examine it over againe and see what is wanting to make an established soul if God be believed in it and rested upon for the fulfilling of it Here is choosing grace pardoning and purging grace here is justifying and sanctifying grace yea all this is grace free grace the grace of God and God in his free grace engaging himselfe to make all this good to such soules as rest upon him What now can any soule say against trusting in God for all that hee hath covenanted to doe in his owne free grace if the soule say I am not worthy what is that to the free grace of God God doth not move upon any such grounds it may be a good heart may say it is not broken enough why a broken heart is a new heart that which God hath Covenanted to give trust God hee will make good every part and tittle of his owne Covenant that should not hinder faith for it is the effect of faith Seeke not first to make thy heart good and then to trust God but trust in God and he will mend thy heart nay he will give thee a new heart that which thou wouldst give all the World to gaine he will give thee freely if thou trust in him he will not onely establish thy heart but sanctifie it also Now hence I dare be bold to affirme to any soule if it believe i● God and his Covenant of grace it shall be established finne shall not shake it for God hath acquitted such soules of that and cast all the sinnes of Believers out of his remembrance God hath done this great worke in his owne grace and neither can nor will ever undoe it Corruption shall not be able to unestablish a soule that believes on God in his Covenant of grace for such soules goe to God and spread their corrupt hearts before him and pleading his owne Covenant with him for new hearts and that he would renue right spirits within them Believing soules are fixed upon a rocke that is higher then themselves so that nothing in selfe can reach them and what ever is in God doth establish them such souls see God to be rich in mercy full of grace pardming iniquity transgression and sins for his owne Names sake Thus are soules established by believing in the Lord their God Againe Believe God in Christ our Saviour himselfe cals for this in John 14.1 You believe in God believe also in me That is believe in God through me looke through my wounds and see how he loves you behold the streumings of my blood and see how freely and fully he hath justified you consider your union with me and therein how he hath made you compleatly right ●teous in his owne sight He hath made me to be sin for you who knew no sin that you might be made the righteousnesse of God in me 2 Cor. 5. last Now believe thus in God through me that I have born your sinnes and satisfied his justice to such a perfection that you stand the righteousnesse of God in me Believe in God through me so shall you be established above the feare of sinne or puni●●●ment for you shall see I have borne them both for you Isa 53. I have ●●orne your griefes and carried your sorrowes God hath strucke● smieten afflicted and wounded me for your transgressions he hath bruised me for your iniquities the chastisement of your peace hath hee laid upon me and with my stripes are you healed for the Lard hath laid on me the iniquities of you all God hath made my soule an offering for your sinnes and hath seene the trav●ll of my soule and is satisfied Now if you believe thus in God through me your soules will be satisfied too you will be established as soulee that are fixed in the bosom of God me-thinks Christ sayes here goe with holy boldnesse to the barre of Gods justice and by faith offer up my wounds my stripes and the travell of my soule in full satisfaction for all your sinnes and I dare assure you hee will acquit and write your discharge by his owne spirit in your own b●som●● I begge of you says Christ have not the least doubt of his faithfulnesse or the fulnesse of my satisfaction I have paid the ●●most farthing you may boldly goe to Gods justice believing this there shall not to all eternity be a tittle laid to your charge No sayes he God will be just both to you and me he will n●ver charge you with that which I have paid and be●●●● 〈◊〉 have finished the whole worke of redemption I have 〈…〉 that believe in God through me from the curse of the law being 〈…〉 curse for them In the whole worke of redemption I did the will of my Father in my agony when I sweat drops of bloud and on the Crosse when there issued out from my sides streates of ●●ter and blood I did bear your sinnes for I had none of my own and in all this I have perfected your redemption in the ●●ll satifaction of my Fathers justice so that by believing in God through me you will see Gods Justice fully satisfied for your finnes and your selves wholy acquitted from sinne and made righteous in the righteousnesse of God himselfe and this I am sure will establish your hearts where sinne is discharged and righteousnesse sealed up there all cause of feare and shaking is banish●● and this is by believing in God through me sayes Christ for 〈◊〉 the great designe of Gods free grace my blood hath discharged all your sinnes and I am your righteousnesse I that am the fulnesse of the God-head bodily and you compleat in me perfectly righteous without spot or wrinckle in the pure eyes of God nay sayes Christ had not my blood made a full end of sinne I should have valued it at a higher rate then to have shedd● it as I did had I been but a perfect

and people are certainly safe as they are thus his interest But as if this were not enough to our doubting unbelieving hearts see how God hath engaged his faithfulnesse to his Church and people by way of Covenant besides the first making of his Covenant of grace in the 31. Jer. 31. Hebr. 8. Isa 59.20 21. Jer. and Hebr. 8. Observe how hee followeth it Isa 59.20 21. And the Redeemer shall come to Zion and unto them that turne from transgression in Jacob saith the Lord. As for me this is my Covenant with them saith the Lord My spirit that is upon thee and my words which I put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy seede nor out of the mouth of thy seedes seede saith the Lord from henceforth and for ever This is Gods Covenant of giving Christ and his Spirit to his Church and people that so hee might preserve his interest in them for ever he makes his Covenant in Christ that it might be an everlasting Covenant Fsahn 89.34 35 36. and that believers might plead his owne Covenant before him in Christ So in Psalm 89.34 35 36. My Covenant will I not breake nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips Once have I sworne by my holinesse that I will not lye unto David His seede shall endure for ever and his Throne as the Sunne before me By David here is meant Christ God makes a Covenant and an Oath in Christ that his seede his Elect Gods Interest his Church and people shall endure and stand before him for ever God makes his Covenant to strengthen faith in his Church and people that we might argue thus God is an infinite pure faithfull and unchangeable God so that what her covenants and sweares to must certainly be not one tittle of his word can faile because he is a faithfull God and his faithfulnesse he hath freely engaged to his Church and people by Covenant for the establishment of their soules In the next place consider Gods care of his Church and people and his promises to them in which he declares his interest in them Isa 43.2 3. In Isa 43.2 3. When thou passest through the waters I wil be with thee and through the rivers they shall not everflow thee When thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burned neither shall the flame kindle upon thee for I am the Lord thy God the holy one of Israel they Saviour Observe Gods care of his Church they shall not goe without him and then the effect of his presence though they go through dangers yet in Gods care and presence they shall be preserved from all danger and ruine God preferveth them as his owne interest though they goe through deep waters even rivers yet they shall not overflow them God keepes their heads above water he will not let his owne interest sincke though they walk through the fire yet God preserveth his interest from burning and consuming This care over his Church and people God doth engage himselfe to by promise thus God engageth his faithfulnesse that he will preserve his owne interest in the World his Church and faithfull people both which his interest and his faithfulnesse are strong arguments to faith and God maketh this use of them Feare not sayes God I am with thee vers 5. So in the next Chapter beg Feare not O Jacob my servant Isa 44. beg and Jesurun whom I have chosen for I will give you water when you thirst and poure my Spirit upon your seede And so goes on making promises to his people and comforting them in their interest in him I am your God and your Redeemer the holy one of Israel besides me there is no God If I say I will preserve you none can hurt you for besides me there is no God I that am your God am the only God I that am this will preserve you in all dangers as my owne interest I will not leave you in fire or water that is not in any danger so God speaks comfortably to Zion in Isa 51.3 He saith Isa 51.3 hee will comfort all her wast places and hee will make her wildernesse like Eden and her desart like the garden of the Lord joy and gladnesse shall be found therein thanksgiving and the voyce of melody God for his Churches comfort doth engage himself to make her fruitfull in her most bar●en places and it shall be the fruit of joy and gladnesse She shall be fruitfull as the garden of the Lord and in the Spirit of the Lord and the fruits of that Spirit shall be thankefulnesse and a voyce of melody to the Lord. Here is God still maintaining his owne interest in his people in all his care over his Church and people in his promises to them therefore feare not for the interest of God hath God for its interest So in Ezek. 34.20 to the end Ezek. 34.20 to the end there God makes many a precious promise to his people and expresseth much of his care over them and what a defence he will be to them Sayes God I will be judg betweene Cattle and Cattle I will save my owne flocke they shall us more be a prey to those proud cattell which thrust with the side shoulder But sayes God I will set a shepheard over them my servant D●vid which is Christ and he shall feede them hee shall be their shapheard and I will be their God yea Christ shall be a Prince among them I the Lord have spoken it And I will make a Covenant of peace with the beasts of the field so that they shall dwell safely in the wildernesse and sleepe in the woods and all about them shall be a blessing to them Thus shall they know that I am with them and that they are my people and the flocke of my pasture saith the Lord God Here is a bundle of promises all full of mercies goodnesse care and providence from God what is the reason of all this why sayes God they are my people My interest is in them they are the sheepe of my pasture therefore Christ shall be their sh●pheard and their Prince he shall take care of them and rule over them with righteousnesse Doe you thinke that I am carelesse of my people my interest in the world for I have given them a Prince of power and righteousnesse to rule over them and to take care of them even Jesus Christ who shall feed them and preserve them as the sheepe of my pasture Isa 4.5 6. So likewise in Isa 4.5.6 God promises to be a defence about all the glory of Zion to be to them as a pillar of cloud by day and of fire by night to be a tabernacle a refuge and a covering to them from heate and stormes This is the fruits of the Kingdome of Christ it was Gods care in making him King over his Church that they might not only be governed

his hands therefore waites on God for his directions and acts accordingly it is faith makes the soule wiling to the will and worke of God So sayes the Author to the Hebrewes Heb. 11.7 8.9 in Heb. 11.7 8 9. By faith Noah being warned of God prepared an Arke to the saving of his house And By faith Abraham when hee was called to goe out unto a place which bee should after receive for an Inheritance obeyed and he went out not knowing whither hee went and so on The holy Ghost makes this expresse that it was faith in the soules of these faithfull ones that made them ready to all the will of God what ever flesh might have to object yet faith bearing sway the soule obeys where faith lives there the will of God lives and there Gods will is readily obeyed this is no small advantage to soules in their Wildernesse journey to be bound up in the will of God to have that live in them by which they live in God have Gods will for theirs and their will for God this is true faith in the soule it keeps the soule in a ready posture to say Amen to all the revealed will of God and to doe in Gods strength all that he requirs such soules and bodies to doe this ready frame of soule to all the revealed will of God is that which Saints doe breath after at the throne of grace therefore cannot but be welcome and highly prized by such soules that which is worth the seeking is a benefit to injoy but ready submission to the will of God is that which Saints do earnestly seek therefore this effect of faith in the soule must needes be a very great benefit and advantage to the soule The eight benefit of faith in the soule is this Faith makes the soule waite patiently upon God for his deliverance out of all its streights though with a single eye of hamane reason it can see no way of escape this is the language of faith in the soule disquiet not thy selfe by making conclusions according to thy darke apprehensions stand still and see the salvation of God salvation and deliverance is Gods not thine be quiet and still and thou shalt see the salvation of God faith speakes and workes thus in the soule that feareth the Lord That when it walketh in darknesse and hath no light then to trust in the name of the Lord and to stay himselfe upon his God Isa 5.10 Isa 5.10 Not to give up all hopes and to cast off all attendance upon God when it cannot see a way of deliverance by its Naturall reason but is wholly in the darke in that point Nay I thinke the Scripture goes higher when as faith cannot see what God meanes whether he will deliver or no yet then to trust in God and to waite upon him for the manifestation of his will though faith cannot make out what God will doe yet faith keeps the soule waiting upon God and that in a still frame of spirit to see his salvation Hee that beleeves sayes the Text makes not hast he goes not before God for faith keeps the soule in a waiting posture upon God in all conditions The believing soule makes not hast through impatience to cast off any burthen before Gods time nor doth it make haste through inordinate affections to enjoy what it delights in and desires before Gods time faith in the soule esteemes of things in season as in their full beauty Like apples of Golde in pictures of Silver and to this soule Gods time is the season for all things Gods time is the most beautifull season to lay downe a burthen in and to take up an injoyment in to a believing soule therefore it makes not haste but waites upon God for his season lyes patiently at the poole side till the Angell of the Covenant come and trouble the waters this was Davids frame of spirit in Psalm 13.5 But I have trusted in thy mercy my heart shall rejoyce in thy salvation Observe he had put his trust in God and therefore rejoyces in his salvation the Psalme is a prayer for salvation it being in faith the Prophet joyes in the salvation of God as though he were in present possession of the thing he prayed for doubtlesse he waited joyfully when as he joyed in the salvation to come as if it were present the same frame of spirit we shall finde in the righteous Psal 33.20 21. Our soules waiteth for the Lord Psal 33.20 21 he is our helpe and our shield For our heart shall rejoyce in him because we have trusted in his holy Name Marke it here is a waiting upon God and that with joy and this the fruit of faith Because men have trusted in his boly Name Faith in God makes the soule waite on God with joy So the Prophet David in Psal 37.7 giveth this counsell as the effect of faith in his owne soule Rest in the Lord and waite patiently for him free not thy selfe because of him who prospereth in his way because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to passe As if he had said thou poore heart weake in faith thou frettest thy selfe because the wicked prosper in their wayes wert thou strong in faith thou wouldst not minde them so as to disquiet thy selfe but rest in the Lord and waite patiently on him their prospering hinders not Gods designe therefore waite on God and be at rest this is the effect of faith in my soule sayes the Prophet and I recommend to thee beleeve in God so wilt thou be at rest and in that rest waite patiently on God for the manifestation of his will So in Psal 40.1 their waiting patiently on God is expressed to be an effect of faith and confidence in God And in Psal 62.1 2. Truely my soule waites upon God he is my Rocke my salvation my defence and so forth His soule by faith trusts in God he had made God his Rock what is the effect of this faith therefore truely sayes he my soule waites upon thee faith makes the soule truely to waite upon God Lamen 3.26 Lament 3.26 It is good obat a man should both hope and quietly waite for the salvation of the Lord This is the voice of faith in the soule when the soul asket faith what is good faith gives it this answer It is good to waite patiently on the Lord Vers 1. though thou art the man that hath seen al afflictions yet it is good for thee to waite patiently on the Lord this is both the counsell and practice of faith where it liveth in any soule and doublesse to have the soule in a quiet sweet frame of spirit waiting and depending on God is no small benefit faith leades the soule to God and acquaints the soule with Gods fulnesse so that thereby the soul is brought into a quiet waiting upon God this blessed benefit neither is nor can be any where but in beleeving soule therefore men fret themselves and