" Who dwelleth, now, good cousin, in the help of the
high God? Surely, he who through a good faith abideth in the trust
and confidence of God's help, and neither, for lack of that faith
and trust in his help, falleth desperate of all help, nor
departeth from the hope of his help to seek himself help (as I
told you the other day) from the flesh, the world, or the devil.
Now he then who by fast faith and sure hope dwelleth in God's
help, and hangeth always upon that hope, never falling from it, he
shall, saith the prophet, ever dwell and abide in God's defence
and protection. That is to say, while he faileth not to believe
well and hope well, God will never fail in all temptation to
defend him. For unto such a faithful well-hoping man the prophet
in the same psalm saith further, "With his shoulders shall he
shadow thee, and under his feathers shalt thou trust." Lo, here
hath every faithful man a sure promise that in the fervent heat of
temptation or tribulation--for, as I have said divers times
before, each is in such wise incident to the other that the devil
useth every tribulation for temptation to bring us to impatience,
and thereby to murmur and grudge and blasphemy; and every kind of
temptation, to a good man who fighteth against it and will not
follow it, is a very painful tribulation.
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