tisfaction.

Are your hearts asking within you, how shall this peace be attained? If
you desire to know it, consider these words, "Whose heart is stayed on
thee, because he trusteth in thee." It concerneth you much to know well,
what this is that your eternal peace depends on.

Trusting in God, is the leaning of the soul's weight on God. The soul hath
a burden above it, heavy and unsupportable, and this the truster casteth
upon God; and so he is a loadened and weary man, whom Christ exhorteth to
come to him, and he shall find ease for his soul, Matt. xi. 28; Prov. iii.
5. Leaning to ourselves, and trusting in God are opposed. Psal. xxii. 10,
trusting is exponed(296) to be "a casting upon God." Psal. xxv. 1, it is
called, "a lifting up the soul to him." This one thing is included in the
bosom of trusting and believing, that a man hath many burdens too heavy
for him, which would sink him down: the believer is such a one as
Jehoshaphat, 2 Chron. xx. 12, "O Lord, we have no might against this great
company, neither know we what to do." O Lord, I have an army of iniquities
against me, a great company compasseth me about; an army of curses as
numerous as mine iniquities; both are innumerable as the sand of the sea;
I have no might against them, neither know I what to do: nay, the Lord is
against me, his wrath is like the roaring of a lion; what can I do against
him? The first beginning of trusting in God is distrusting ourselves; and
until a man see his duty and burden beyond his strength, his burden
greater than he can bear, you will never persuade him to come to Jesus
Christ, and lean on him. We will not preach any such doctrine, as to
discharge any to come to Christ, till they be wearied and loaden; for,
when a man conceiveth that he wanteth that weariedness, whither shall he
go to find it? Is there any fountain, but one, Jesus Christ, both of grace
and preparations to it, if any such be? But this we preach unto you, that
until you be wearied and loaden, you will not cast your burden on Jesus.
We need not discharge you to come till you be such, for certainly you will
not come. This is the desperate wickedness of our hearts, that we will
never forsake ourselves till we can do no better. Until men be as David,
"I looked on the right hand, and there was none would know me; refuge
failed me," certainly they will not cry to God. Men will look round about
them, before they will look up above them; they will cast the burden of