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 doth he plead with God to do to him according to his word? "Quicken me according to thy word," ver. 25. Again and again we have this repeated, as ver. 107, 154. "Strengthen me according to thy word," ver. 28. "Save me according to thy word," ver. 28. "Save me according to thy word,” ver. 41. "Be merciful to me, according to thy word," ver. 58. "Deal well with thy ſervant, according to thy word," ver. 65. "Let thy merciful kindneſs be my comfort, according to thy word," ver. 76. "Give me underſtanding according to thy word,” ver. 169. "Deliver me, according to thy word," ver. 170.— All comes to this, Do as thou haſt ſaid.

III. We proceed now. to ſhow, or in what manner faith takes the word of God.

I. It takes it by an intelligent apprehenſion of it in the underſtanding. The man is taught of God, and gets his eyes opened to ſee the faithful ſaying, and worthy of all acceptation; he ſees it to be the word of God, and a word ſpoken in ſeaſon to his weary ſoul. They will never take the word by faith that do not underſtand it. Philip faith unto the eunuch, Underſtandeſt thou what thou