d such a threefold consideration yield? Would any wind or tempest blow
within these walls mounted up to heaven?

Stayedness on God is nothing else but the fixedness of believing and
trusting, Ps. cxii. 7, 8, "his heart is fixed, trusting in God; his heart
is established." It is even the mature and ripe age of faith. Faith, while
it is yet in infancy, in its tender years, neither can endure storms, nor
can it confirm us in them; but when it hath sprung up and grown in that
root of Jesse, when it is rooted and established in Jesus Christ, then it
establisheth the soul. Faith abiding in him and taking root, groweth,
confirmed as a tree that cannot easily be moved; and if you establish
faith, you shall be established.

There are two particulars which I conceive the trusting soul is stayed on.
First, in the meditation of God. Secondly, in expectation from him of all
good things. When I say the meditation of God, I take in both
contemplation and affection. The most part of men have but few thoughts of
God at all; even those who trust in him do not consider sufficiently what
a one he is in whom they believe. If faith were vigorous and lively, it
would put men to often thinking on him, seeking to know him in his
glorious names; the mind would be stayed upon this glorious object, as the
most mysterious and wonderful one. How strong are men's minds with their
vanities? When they awake, they are not still with God. The meditation of
him is a burden to them; any other thing getteth more time and thoughts.
But meditation addeth affection to contemplation; men may think long upon
the heavens and their course, but their affections are not ravished with
them. But thus is the soul stayed on God;--when the soul's desires are
towards the remembrance of his name, then affection stayeth the mind upon
what it pitcheth on; and certainly the mind giveth but passing looks,
constrained thoughts, where the heart is not. Here is David's meditation,
Ps. i. "My delight is in the law of the Lord." The soul of a believer
should be constant and fixed in the consideration of God, till he be
wholly engaged to admiration and wondering. "O Lord, how excellent is thy
name," Psal. viii. 1: "and who is like unto thee?" You all say that you
believe in God, and know his power,--you know he is good, he is merciful,
just, long-suffering, faithful, &c. But what is all this knowledge but
ignorance, and your light darkness, when it doth not press you to put your
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