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becauſe the word is the immediate object of faith. We have no other glaſs wherein to ſee God ſavingly but his word, particularly his word of grace and promiſe: "Say not, who ſhall aſcend to heaven, that is, to bring Chriſt down from above: or who ſhall deſcend into the deep, that is, to bring up Chriſt again from the dead. The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart; ſo then, faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God," Rom. x. 6, 7, 8. Faith is a relative word, it relates to the faithfulneſs of the ſpeaker: believing relates to a word to be believed. That it is the buſineſs of faith to truſt in the word of God is evident from the whole ſcripture. How many times, Pſal. cxix. doth the, Pſalmiſt ſpeak of "truſting in his word, and hoping in his word, and rejoicing in his word," and ſo taking him at his word.
II. We come in the next place to ſhew, That it is the buſineſs of faith to put him to his word, or to plead the accompliſhment of his word, that he would do as he had ſaid : this is evident from Pſalm cxix. 49." Remember the word unto thy ſervant, upon which thou haſt cauſed me to hope." And how many timesdoth
