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To depend upon Gods bare Word. [ 1141]

THe Earth that we tread on,* 1.1 though it be a massie, dull, heavy body, yet it hangeth in the midst of the ayr, inviron'd by the Heavens, and keepeth its place steady, and never stirreth an inch from it, having no props or shores to uphold it, no beams or barrs to fasten it, nothing to stay or establish it, but the Word of God; In like manner, must we learn to depend upon the bare Word of God.* 1.2 And when all other ayds and comforts have taken their leaves of us, then to rest and relye upon God himself, and his infallible, unfailable Word of promise, not on the outward pledges and pawns of his Providence, nor on the ordinary effects and fruits of his favour; so shall we see light even in the midst of darknesse, and be able to discern the sweet Sun-shine of his blessed countenance through the thickest clouds of his fiercest Wrath and displeasure.

Notes

• * 1.1

  T. Gataker. David's Re∣membrancer; A Sermon.
• * 1.2

  Nil desperan∣dum Christo duce, &c. Juvenal.