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[ 595] Faith in the time of trial, needful.
AS a Ship without his ballast is toss'd and rock'd at Sea,* 1.1 and cannot endure the waves, so is that soul right unstable, and every hour apt to perish, which hath not faith in Temptation: It is written of the Cranes, that when they do intend in stormy and troublesome weather, to flie over the Sea, fearing left that by the blasts of the wind, their bodies which be but light, should be beaten into the Sea, or be kept from the place whither they intend, they swallow some sand, and little stones into their bellies, whereby they are so moderately piezed, that they are able to resist the raging of the wind. So it must be with every Christian, whilst they do cross this troublesome world of sin and great temptation; It is faith that must be their ballast, it is faith that must keep them upright, or recover them when they are a going.