Four pillars

In looking unto God and Christ in the promise, let the eye of faith be directed especially to these four attributes & perfections of God:

1) The freeness of His grace in making them,

2) The absoluteness of His power to effect them,

3) The unchangeableness of His counsel not to revoke, disannul the least iota of them,

4) The greatness of His wisdom to perform all which He has spoken in the best season & joint of time.

These are four pillars upon which faith may safely lean and which the strength of the most violent temptations can never shake much less overturn as Samson did the pillars of the house against which he leaned (Jud 16:30).

William Spurstowe, The Wells of Salvation Opened (1655)