There is nothing like faith to help at a pinch; faith dissolves
doubts, as the sun drives away the mists. And that you may not be
put out, know your time of believing is always. There are times when
some graces may be out of use; but there is no time wherein faith
can be said to be so. Faith is the eye, the mouth, the hand, and one
of these is of use all day long. Faith is to see, to receive, to
work, or to eat; and a Christian should be seeing, or receiving, or
working, or feeding, all day long. Let it rain, let it blow, let it
thunder, let it lighten, a Christian must still believe.
"Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith you shall be able
to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked:" to quench them, though
they come from him as kindled with the very fire of hell. None
knows, save he that feels it, how burning hot the fiery darts of
Satan are; and how, when darted, they kindle upon our flesh and
unbelief; neither can any know the power and worth of faith to
quench them, but he that hath it and hath power to act it.
There are three things in faith, that directly tend to make a man
depart from iniquity.
1. It apprehendeth the truth of the being and great ness of God, and
so it aweth the spirit of a man.
2. It apprehendeth the love of this God in Christ, and so it
conquereth and overcometh the spirit of a man.
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