The faith that God gives His people is an energetic principle by which the soul learns how to act
with God-they who, by faith, receive the word of God's grace. Faith always supposes that man has been in solitude with God. Man has to learn God's plan-His projects. See what liberty a person has, like Rahab, like the Syrophenician woman; Christ had His thoughts about Israel, she had hers about Him; deep need gave her a wonderful sort of liberty in the presence of the grace which she knew would meet it. Is there not the same liberty for faith now to be before God in simple confidence? If I have to do with God, I can certainly calculate on finding in this God a blessing, whatever my circumstances may be.
Is it nothing that God wants your heart and mine to be comforted? saying, " I want you to be partakers of my prospects; I put before you that my prospect, after caring for my people awhile in the wilderness, is to rise up and show that they are not Under the power of darkness; that because I died for them the waters of death, which have risen- up and swept off' all Adam's race, have no power over them: I mean to shew out before the universe, that I have a,-people who are waiting for Me to appear without sin unto salvation."