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 word, Thou haſt ſaid, thou haſt promiſed, thou haſt ſpoken in thy holineſs.

2. Faith acts by pleading the accompliſhment of the promiſe, Do as thou haſt ſaid. God is not a ſpeaker only, but a doer; he is not a promiſer, but a performer; and faith looks to a promiſing God, that he may be a performing God; and ſo puts him to his word.

O. That it is the buſineſs of true faith to take God's word, and to put him to it.

In the illuſtration of this doctrinal propoſition, we would incline, through divine aid, to eſſay briefly the following things.

I. To ſhew, That it is the buſineſs of faith to take God's word.

II. That it is the buſineſs of faith to put him to his word.

III. How faith takes the word of God.

IV. How it pleads the accompliſhment of the promiſe.

V. Whence is this the buſineſs of faith to take God at his word, and to put him to his word.

VI. Make application of the whole.

I. We are firſt to ſhew, That it is the buſineſs of faith to take God's word, or to take him at his word: this is plain,