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mercies, before I have them I they will then be Isaacs, sons of laughter. The less Reason hath to work upon the more freely Faith casts itself upon the faithfulness of God. I find that whilst faith is steady nothing can disquiet me; and when faith totters, nothing can establish me. If I trouble out amongst means and creatures, I am presently lost and can come to no end; but if I stay myself upon God, and leave him to work in his own way and time I am at rest, and can sit down and sleep in a promise, when a thousand rise up against me. Therefore no way is not cast beforehand, but to work with God by the day Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof. I find so much to do continually with my calling and my heart, that 1 have no time to puzzle myself with peradventures and futurities.
As for the state of the times they are very gloomy and tempestuous But by do the heathens rage? Faith lies at anchor in the modest of the waves, and believes the accomplishment of the Promise, though all those over turnings, confusions and seeming impossibilities. On this God do live, who is our God for ever, and will guide us to the death.
