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Crosser, Go ye to such a man, not to weaken his faith
or to [??ct ar?] grace of the Spirit, but to purge him,
refine him, try him, exercise him, to breed the
quiet fruits of Righteousness, to confirm his patience
support his hope &c---Hence the Serv'nts
of God by their faith have been enabled to say, "I
will hear the indignation of the Lord, because I have
sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and
execute Judgement for me: "and if he says thus --
"I have no pleasure in thee: Behold here am I --
let him do to me what seemeth good to him." This
meditaion makes the heart willinhly freely and
constantly to reighn itself to the good pleasure of God
in all things.

5 - That - is God's will after we have gone to the
promise to me all lawful means of help which
God in his Providence affords; but in point of
dependence, that we [soberly?] rest on God's promises:
Faith [coupleth?] the means and the end,
but looketh to the promises (whose truth and
wisdom and power & mercy never fails) and
not to the [profitability?] of the thing promised
Abraham against hope believed in hope -that
what God had promised, he was able to perform.

6 That the promises are in Christ yea & Amen
and therefore set it down and concluded, that God
will do whatsoever he hath promised, and we shall
receive it in the ways of his Providence; it
may be not yet, what then? "He that believeth
will not make [hast?]" but wait patiently
Gods will & pleasure as to time.

Ambrose