Divine consolations, or, The teachings of God in three parts ... with an answer to the objections made against it, and Doctor Crips [sic] booke justified against Steven Geree / by Samuel Richardson.

The just shall live by Faith, Hab. 2. 4.

THat we might live by faith, God hath given his many rich and precious pro∣mises, for this life, and that to come, that we may be comforted and satisfied in the injoy∣ment of God in them, our lives cannot be sweet without them, by reason of the many miseries within and without that attends us; I have here set downe many principall pro∣mises, that you may with ease and speed finde them, and live upon them.

Faith supplieth all wants; faith honours God, and God honours them most that live by it: see Heb. 11. Hos. 12. 3, 4. Job 13. 15.

By faith we live to God a life of joy in him our righteousnesse, as if we had never finned; by faith we live above sin, infirmities, temp∣tations, disertions, sense, reason, feares, doubts: faith sweetens the sweetest mercy, and the bitterest miseries; it makes great afflictions as none; it maintains the soules strength and

comfort; by faith wee obey God; it makes Christs yoke easie and sweet; faith puts the soule into possession of heaven, while the bo∣dy is on earth; by it we view the glory of hea∣ven; by faith we know our selves to be hap∣py, when to a carnall eye wee seeme most miserable; by faith wee can part with the sweetest outward comforts, and welcome death, because we know we leave the worst place, and things, and goe to better; they that live by faith, live upon God, and are fea∣sted in Christs banquetting house, where there are all desireable dainties and enough: Eate, O friends, and drinke abundantly; because it is the pleasure of our Lord that we doe so, it's thy portion, duty, and priviledge, to digest, and refresh, and make thy soule merry with his dainties, to injoy himselfe in them, that so thy joy may be full.

The life of faith, is the communion the soule hath with God in Christ, in his promises spirituall and temporall.