nbelief of the gospel unto your former disobedience. He is "a God of
truth," in promises and threatenings. It is strange how untoward and
froward we are,--a perverse generation. We do not believe his threatenings,
but fancy we receive his promises, or else, believing his threatenings we
question his promises. But know this for a truth, his last word is more
weighty, and the unbelief of it is most dangerous. Ye have not kept his
commands, and so the curse is come upon you? Do ye believe that? If ye do,
then the gospel speaks unto you, the God of truth hath one word more, "He
that believes shall be saved," notwithstanding of all his breaking of the
law. If ye do not set your seal to this also, then ye say he is not a God
of truth, ye say he is a liar. And as for you who have committed your
souls to him, as to a faithful keeper, and acquiesced unto his word of
promise for salvation, think how unsuitable it is for you to distrust him
in other lesser things. Ye have the promise of this life, whoever hath the
promises of the life to come. Therefore do not make him a liar in these.
He is "a God of truth," and will let you want no good thing. "Say to the
righteous, it shall be well with him, whatever be." Let heaven and earth
mix through other, yet ye may be as mount Sion unmoved in the midst of
many floods, because of the promises.

"Without iniquity." Who doubts of that, say ye? What needs this be added?
Who charges him with iniquity or sin? Nay, but stay and consider, and you
shall find great weight in this. It is true, none dare charge him openly,
or speak in express terms against his holiness, yet, if we judge of our
own and other's practices and dispositions, as the Lord useth to construct
of them, if we resolve our murmurings, impatience, self absolutions, and
excuses to hold off convictions, into plain language, if we would
translate them into a scripture style, certainly it will be found that the
most part of men, if not all, use to impute iniquity to God, and accuse
him rather than take with accusations laid against themselves. And
therefore the Lord useth to go to law with his people. He who is the judge
of the world, that cannot do unrighteousness, he who is the potter, and we
all the clay, yet he so far condescends to us for convincing us, as
sometimes to refer the controversy between him and his people to other
creatures, as Micah vi. 2. He calls the mountains and the foundations of
the earth to judge between him an