Now the believer’s stay in this case, must be the Rock of Ages, Jesus the Truth.  It is he alone who can keep straight and honest in such a reeling time.  So that a sight of Christ as the Truth, in reference to the carrying on of truth in the earth, and advancing his cause and work, will be the only support of a soul shaken by such a piece of trial.

But the question is, how should believers make use of Christ, in such a time, to the end they may be kept from fainting and succumbing in such a storm?  To which I answer, that the faith and consideration of those particulars would help to establishment: 

1.  That Christ, in all this great work of redemption, and in every piece of it, is the Father’s servant.  So is he frequently called, “his servant,” Isa. xlii. 1; xlix. 3, 5, 6; lii. 13; and liii. 11.  Zech. iii. 8; and therefore this work is a work intrusted to him, and he standeth engaged as a servant, to be faithful to his trust.  Moreover add to this, that he hath a commission to perfect that work; and we need not doubt, but he who is the truth will be true to his trust.  “Him hath God the Father sealed,” John vi. 27; and he often tells us himself, that he is “sent of the Father,” John iv. 34; v. 23, 24, 30, 36, 37; vi. 38, 39, 40, 44, 57; viii. 16, 18; xii. 44, 45, 49; vii. 16; ix. 4; x. 36; and xi. 42.

2.  That while he was upon the earth, he finished that work that was committed to him to finish here, having purchased all that was to be bought by his blood, paying all the price that justice did ask, John xvii. 4; xix. 30.  By which price he hath purchased a people to himself, Rev. v. 9.  Luke i. 68.  So that his work, cause, and interest, is a purchased work bought with his blood.

3.  That his resurrection and glorification is an undoubted proof of this, that justice is satisfied, and that the price is fully paid; and also that his exaltation at the Father’s right hand is a sure evidence and ground of hope, that he shall at last triumph over all his enemies, and that his work of truth shall prosper.  The Father said to him, Psalm cx. 1, “Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.”  Being highly exalted, he hath got “a name above every name:  that at his name every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess, that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father,” Phil. ii. 9, 10, 11.

4.  That the Father standeth engaged to make good to him all that was promised, and to give him all that he purchased, Isa. liii. 10, 11, 12.  Christ, having now fulfilled his undertaking, by making his soul an offering for sin, and so satisfying justice, which is openly declared by his resurrection, and admission to glory, as the head of his elect, is to expect the accomplishment of what was conditioned unto him.  His work, therefore, on the earth must prosper; and the Father hath undertaken to see it prosper.  Surely the faith of this would much support a poor soul, staggering at the thoughts of the prosperity of the wicked, and of their evil cause.