The
first
General
Head
.
First
,
I
shall
undertake
the
proof
and
defence
of
this
great
truth
,
That
the
affairs
of
the
Saints
in
this
world
are
certainly
conducted
by
the
Wisdom
and
care
of
specJal
Providence
.
And
herein
I
address
my self
with
cheerfulness
,
to
perform
(
as
I
am
able
)
a
service
for
that
Providence
,
which
hath
throughout
my
life
performed
all
things
for
me
,
as
the
Text
speaks
.
There
is
a
twofold
consideration
of
Providence
according
to
its
twofold
Object
,
and
manner
of
dispensation
;
the
one
is
general
,
exercised
about
all
creatures
,
rational
and
irrational
,
animate
and
inanimate
;
the
other
specJal
and
peculiar
.
Christ
hath
an
universal
Empire
over
all
things
,
Ephes.
1.
22.
the
head
of
the
whole
World
,
by
way
of
dominJon
;
but
an
head
to
the
Church
,
by
way
of
unJon
and
specJal
influence
,
John
17.
2.
the
SavJour
of
all
men
,
but
especJally
of
them
that
belJeve
,
1
Tim.
4.
10.
The
Church
is
his
specJal
care
and
charge
;
he
rules
the
world
for
its
good
,
as
an
head
consulting
the
welfare
of
the
body
.
Heathens
generally
denied
Providence
,
and
no
wonder
,
since
they
denied
a
God
:
for
the
same
Arguments
that
prove
one
,
will
prove
the
other
.
Aristotle
the
Prince
of
Heathen
Philosophers
,
could
not
by
the
utmost
search
of
reason
,
find
out
the
Worlds
original
,
and
therefore
concludes
,
it
was
from
Eternity
.
The
Epicureans
did
in
a
sort
acknowledge
a
God
,
but
yet
denied
a
Providence
,
and
wholly
excluded
him
from
any
interest
or
concern
in
the
affairs
of
the
world
,
as
being
inconsistent
with
the
felicity
and
tranquillity
of
the
Divine
Being
to
be
diverted
and
cumbered
with
the
care
and
labour
of
government
.
This
assertion
is
so
repugnant
to
reason
,
that
it
is
a
wonder
themselves
blush●
not
at
its
absurdity
;
but
I
guess
at
the
design
,
and
one
of
them
speaks
it
out
in
broad
language
.
Itaque
imposuistis
cervicibus
nostris
sempiternum
dominum
,
quem
dJes
&
noctes
timeremus
.
Quis
enim
non
timeat
omnJa
providentem
,
&
cogitantem
,
&
animadvertentem
,
&
omnJa
ad
se
pertinere
putantem
,
curJosum
&
plenum
negotii
Deum
?
Vell.
apud
Cicer.
de
Natura
Deorum
.
They
foresaw
,
that
the
concession
of
a
Providence
,
would
impose
an
eternal
yoak
upon
their
necks
,
by
making
them
accountable
for
all
they
did
to
an
higher
Tribunal
:
and
that
they
must
necessarily
pass
the
time
of
their
sojourning
here
in
fear
,
whilst
all
their
thoughts
,
words
and
wayes
were
strictly
noted
and
recorded
,
in
order
to
an
account
by
an
All-seeing
and
righteous
God
:
and
therefore
laboured
to
perswade
themselves
that
was
not
,
which
they
had
no
mind
should
be
.
But
these
Atheistical
and
foolish
conceits
fall
flat
before
the
undeniable
evidence
of
this
so
great
and
clear
a
truth
.
Now
,
My
business
here
,
is
not
so
much
to
deal
with
professed
Atheists
,
who
deny
the
existence
of
God
;
and
consequently
deride
all
evidences
brought
from
Scripture
,
of
the
extraordinary
events
,
that
fall
out
in
favour
of
that
people
that
are
called
His
:
but
rather
to
convince
those
,
that
professedly
own
all
this
;
yet
never
having
tasted
Religion
by
experience
,
suspect
at
least
,
that
all
these
things
which
we
call
specJal
providences
to
the
Saints
,
are
but
natural
events
,
or
meer
contingencJes
:
and
thus
whilst
they
profess
to
own
a
God
,
and
a
Providence
,
(
which
profession
is
but
the
effect
of
their
education
)
they
do
in
the
mean
time
live
like
Atheists
;
and
both
think
and
act
,
as
if
there
were
no
such
things
:
and
really
I
doubt
,
this
is
the
case
of
the
far
greatest
part
of
the
men
of
this
generation
.
But
if
it
were
indeed
so
,
that
the
affairs
of
the
World
in
general
,
and
more
especially
those
of
the
Saints
,
were
not
conducted
by
divine
Providence
,
but
(
as
they
would
perswade
us
)
by
the
steady
course
of
natural
causes
:
beside
which
,
if
at
any
time
we
observe
any
event
to
fall
out
,
it
's
meerly
casual
and
contingent
,
or
that
which
proceeds
from
some
hidden
and
secret
cause
in
nature
:
If
this
indeed
were
so
,
let
them
that
are
tempted
to
believe
it
,
rationally
satisfie
the
following
demands
.
First
Demand
.
How
comes
it
to
pass
,
that
so
many
signal
mercies
and
deliverances
have
befallen
the
people
of
God
,
above
the
power
,
and
against
the
course
of
natural
causes
:
to
make
way
for
which
,
there
hath
been
a
sensible
suspension
and
stop
put
to
the
course
of
nature
?
It
is
most
evident
,
that
no
natural
effect
can
exceed
the
power
of
its
natural
cause
.
Nothing
can
give
to
another
,
more
than
it
hath
in
it self
.
And
it
is
as
clear
,
that
whatsoever
acts
naturally
,
acts
necessarily
:
Fire
burns
adultimum
sui
posse
to
the
uttermost
of
its
power
:
Waters
overflow
,
and
drown
all
that
they
can
.
Lions
and
other
rapacious
and
cruel
●easts
,
especially
when
hungry
,
tear
and
devour
their
prey
:
And
for
Arbitrary
and
rational
Agents
,
they
also
act
according
to
the
principles
and
Laws
of
their
natures
.
A
wicked
man
when
his
heart
is
fully
set
in
him
,
and
his
will
stands
in
a
full
bent
of
resolution
,
will
certainly
(
if
he
have
power
in
his
hand
,
and
opportunity
to
execute
his
conceived
mischief
)
give
it
vent
,
and
perpetrate
the
wicked
devices
of
his
heart
:
for
having
once
conceived
mischief
,
and
travailing
in
pain
with
it
(
according
to
the
course
of
nature
)
he
must
bring
it
forth
,
as
it
is
Psal.
7.
14.
But
if
any
of
these
inanimate
,
brutal
,
or
rational
agents
,
when
there
is
no
natural
obstacle
or
remora
,
have
their
power
suspended
,
and
that
when
the
effect
is
near
the
birth
,
and
the
design
at
the
very
article
of
execution
,
so
that
though
they
would
,
yet
cannot
hurt
;
to
what
think
you
is
this
to
be
assigned
and
referred
?
Yet
so
it
hath
often
been
seen
,
where
Gods
interest
hath
been
immediately
concerned
in
the
danger
and
evil
of
the
event
.
The
Sea
divided
it self
in
its
own
Channel
,
and
made
a
wall
of
water
,
Dan.
3.
22.
Yea
,
we
find
it
hath
some
time
been
sufficient
to
consume
,
but
not
to
torment
the
body
;
as
in
that
known
instance
of
blessed
Bayncha●
,
who
told
his
Enemies
,
The
flames
were
to
him
as
a
bed
of
Roses
.
The
hungry
Lions
put
off
their
natural
fierceness
,
and
became
gentle
and
harmless
,
when
DanJel
was
cast
among
them
for
a
prey
.
The
like
account
the
Church
S●ory
gives
us
of
Polycarpe
,
and
DJonysJus
Areopagi●a
,
Are
these
things
according
to
the
course
and
Law
of
Nature
?
To
what
secret
natural
cause
,
can
they
be
ascribed
?
In
like
manner
,
we
find
the
vilest
,
and
●iercest
of
wicked
men
,
have
been
withheld
by
an
invisible
hand
of
restraint
from
injuring
the
Lords
people
.
By
what
secret
cause
in
nature
,
was
Jeroboam's
hand
dried
up
,
and
made
inflexible
at
the
same
instant
it
was
stretched
out
against
the
Man
of
God
?
1.
King
.
13.
4.
No
wild
Beasts
rend
and
devour
their
prey
more
greedily
,
than
wicked
men
would
destroy
the
people
of
God
that
dwell
among
them
,
were
it
not
for
this
providential
restraint
upon
them
.
So
the
Psalmist
expresses
his
case
in
the
words
following
my
Text
,
My
soul
is
among
Lyons
,
and
I
lye
among
them
that
are
set
on
fire
.
The
Disciples
were
sent
forth
as
Sheep
into
the
midst
of
Wolves
,
Mat.
10.
16.
It
will
not
avail
in
this
case
to
object
,
Those
miraculous
events
depend
only
upon
Scripture
testimony
,
which
the
Atheist
is
not
concluded
by
:
for
beside
all
that
may
be
alledged
for
the
Authority
of
that
testimony
(
which
is
needless
to
produce
to
men
that
own
it
)
what
is
it
less
that
every
eye
sees
,
or
may
see
at
this
day
?
Do
we
not
behold
a
weak
defenceless
handful
of
men
,
wonderfully
,
and
(
except
this
way
)
unaccountably
preserved
from
ruine
in
the
midst
of
potent
,
enraged
and
truculent
enemies
,
that
fain
would
,
but
cannot
destroy
them
;
when
as
yet
,
no
natural
impediment
can
be
assigned
why
they
cannot
?
And
if
this
pose
us
,
what
shall
we
say
,
when
we
see
events
produced
in
the
world
for
the
good
of
Gods
chosen
,
by
those
very
hands
and
means
,
which
were
intentionally
imployed
for
their
ruine
?
These
things
are
as
much
beside
the
intentions
of
their
enemies
,
as
they
are
above
their
own
expectations
;
yet
such
things
are
no
rarities
in
the
world
.
Was
not
the
Envy
of
Joseph's
brethren
,
the
cursed
Plot
of
Haman
,
the
Decree
procured
by
the
●nvy
of
the
Princes
against
DanJel
,
with
many
more
of
the
like
nature
,
all
turned
by
a
secret
and
strange
hand
of
providence
,
to
their
greater
advancement
and
benefit
:
their
Enemies
lifted
them
up
to
all
that
honour
and
preferment
they
had
.
Second
Demand
.
How
is
it
(
if
the
Saints
Concerns
are
not
ordered
by
a
special
divine
Providence
)
that
natural
causes
unite
and
assocJate
themselves
for
their
relJef
and
benefit
in
so
strange
a
manner
as
they
are
found
to
do
?
It
is
undeniably
evident
,
that
there
are
marvellous
coincidencies
of
Providence
,
confederating
and
agreeing
as
it
were
,
to
meet
and
unite
themselves
to
bring
about
the
good
of
Gods
Chosen
.
There
is
a
like
face
of
things
shewing
it self
in
divers
places
at
that
time
,
when
any
work
for
the
good
of
the
Church
is
come
upon
the
stage
of
the
world
.
As
when
the
MessJah
the
capital
mercy
came
to
the
Temple
,
then
Simeo●
and
Anna
were
brought
thither
by
Providence
,
as
witnesses
to
it
.
So
in
Reformation
work
,
when
the
Images
were
pulled
down
in
Holland
,
one
and
the
same
spirit
of
zeal
possessed
them
in
every
City
and
Town
,
that
the
work
was
done
in
a
night
.
He
that
heedfully
reads
the
History
of
Joseph's
advancement
to
be
the
Lord
of
Egypt
,
may
number
in
that
story
twelve
remarkable
acts
or
steps
of
Providence
,
by
which
he
ascended
to
that
honour
and
authority
:
if
but
one
of
them
had
failed
,
in
all
likelihood
the
Event
had
done
so
too
:
but
every
one
sell
in
its
order
,
exactly
keeping
its
own
time
and
place
.
So
in
the
Churches
deliverance
●rom
the
plot
of
Haman
,
we
find
no
less
than
seven
acts
of
Providence
concurring
strangely
to
produce
it
,
as
if
they
had
all
met
by
appointment
and
consent
,
to
break
that
snare
for
them
:
one
thing
so
aptly
suiting
with
,
and
making
way
for
another
,
that
every
heedful
observer
must
needs
conclude
,
this
cannot
be
the
effect
of
casualty
,
but
wise
counsel
.
Even
as
in
viewing
the
accurate
structure
of
the
body
of
a
man
,
the
●igure
,
position
,
and
mutual
respects
of
the
several
members
and
vessels
hath
convinced
some
,
(
and
is
sufficient
to
convince
all
)
that
it
was
the
effect
of
divine
Wisdom
and
power
:
in
like
manner
,
if
the
admirable
adaptation
of
the
means
and
instruments
employed
for
mercy
to
the
people
of
God
be
heedfully
considered
,
We
find
by
manifold
instances
,
that
there
certainly
are
strong
combinations
,
and
predispositions
of
persons
and
things
,
to
bring
about
some
issue
and
design
for
the
benefit
of
the
Church
,
which
themselves
never
thought
of
:
they
hold
no
intelligence
,
communicate
not
their
counsels
to
each
other
,
yet
meet
together
,
and
work
together
as
if
they
did
:
which
is
,
as
if
ten
men
should
all
meet
together
at
one
place
,
and
in
one
hour
,
about
one
and
the
same
business
,
and
that
without
any
fore-appointment
betwixt
themselves
;
can
any
question
,
but
such
a
meeting
of
means
and
instruments
is
certainly
,
though
secretly
over-ruled
by
some
Wise
invisible
Agent
?
Third
Demand
.
If
the
Concerns
of
Gods
people
be
not
governed
by
special
Providence
,
Whence
is
it
,
that
the
most
apt
and
powerful
means
imployed
to
destroy
them
are
rendered
ineffectual
,
and
weak
contemptible
means
imployed
for
their
defence
and
comfort
,
crowned
with
success
?
This
could
never
be
,
if
things
were
wholly
swayed
by
the
course
of
nature
.
If
we
judge
by
that
rule
,
we
must
conclude
,
the
more
apt
and
powerful
the
means
are
,
the
more
successful
and
prosperous
they
must
needs
be
;
and
where
they
are
inept
,
weak
,
and
contemptible
,
nothing
can
be
expected
from
them
:
thus
reason
layes
it
according
to
the
rules
of
nature
;
but
Providence
crosses
its
hands
,
as
Jacob
did
in
blessing
the
Sons
of
Joseph
,
and
orders
quite
contrary
issues
and
events
.
Such
was
the
mighty
power
and
deep
policy
used
by
Pharaoh
to
destroy
Gods
Israel
,
that
to
the
eye
of
reason
,
it
was
as
impossible
to
survive
it
,
as
for
crackling
thorns
to
abide
unconsumed
amidst
devouring
flames
;
by
which
Emblem
,
their
miraculous
preservation
is
expressed
,
Exod.
3.
2.
the
bush
was
all
in
a
flame
,
but
no
consumption
of
it
.
The
Heathen
Roman
Emperours
,
who
made
th●
World
tremble
,
and
subdued
the
Nations
under
them
,
have
employed
all
their
power
and
policy
against
the
poor
,
naked
,
defenceless
Church
,
to
ruine
it
;
yet
could
not
accomplish
it
,
Rev.
12.
3
,
4.
O
the
Seas
of
blood
that
Heathen
Rome
shed
in
the
ten
persecutions
!
yet
the
Church
lives
,
and
when
the
Dragon
gave
his
power
to
th●
Beast
,
Rev.
13.
2.
(
i.
e.
)
the
State
of
Rome
became
Antichristian
,
O
what
slaughters
have
been
made
by
the
Beast
in
all
his
dominions
;
so
that
the
Holy
Ghost
represents
him
,
as
drunken
with
the
blood
of
the
Saints
,
Rev.
17.
6.
And
yet
all
will
not
do
:
the
gates
(
i.
e.
)
the
powers
and
policies
of
Hell
cannot
prevail
against
it
.
How
manifest
is
the
care
and
power
of
Providence
herein
?
Had
half
that
power
been
imployed
against
any
other
people
,
it
had
certainly
swallowed
them
up
immediately
,
or
in
the
hundredth
part
of
the
time
wo●●
them
out
.
How
soon
was
the
PersJan
Monarchy
swallowed
up
by
the
GrecJan
,
and
that
again
by
the
Roman
?
though
I
make
a
full
end
of
all
NatJons
,
yet
will
I
not
make
a
full
end
of
Thee
:
and
that
in
Isa.
54.
17.
no
weapon
formed
against
thee
shall
prosper
.
On
the
contrary
,
how
successful
have
weak
and
contemptible
means
been
made
for
the
good
of
the
Church
?
Thus
in
the
first
planting
of
Christianity
in
the
world
,
by
what
weak
and
improbable
instruments
was
it
done
?
Christ
did
not
chuse
the
eloquent
Orators
,
or
men
of
Authority
in
the
Courts
of
Kings
and
Emperours
,
but
twelve
poor
Mechanicks
,
and
Fisher-men
;
and
these
not
sent
together
in
a
troop
,
but
some
to
take
one
Countrey
to
conquer
it
,
and
some
another
:
the
most
ridiculous
course
(
in
appearance
)
for
such
a
design
as
could
be
imagined
;
and
yet
in
how
short
a
time
was
the
Gospel
spread
,
and
the
Churches
planted
by
them
in
the
several
Kingdoms
of
the
world
?
This
the
Psalmist
●oresaw
by
the
Spirit
of
Prophecy
,
when
he
said
,
Out
of
the
mouth
of
Babes
and
Sucklings
hast
thou
ordained
strength
,
to
still
the
Enemy
,
and
the
Avenger
,
Psal.
8.
2.
At
the
sound
of
Rams
horns
Jericho
is
delivered
into
the
hands
of
Israel
:
see
Josh.
6.
20.
By
three
hundred
men
with
their
Pitchers
and
Lamps
,
the
huge
host
of
MidJan
is
discomsited
,
Judges
6.
19.
The
Protestants
besieged
in
BezJers
in
France
are
delivered
by
a
drunken
Drummer
,
who
going
to
his
Quarters
at
midnight
,
rang
the
Alarm-Bell
of
the
Town
,
not
knowing
what
he
did
;
and
just
then
were
their
enemies
making
their
assault
.
And
as
weak
and
improbable
means
have
been
blessed
with
success
to
the
Church
in
general
,
so
to
the
preservation
of
its
particular
members
also
.
A
Spider
by
weaving
her
web
over
the
mouth
of
an
Oven
,
shall
hide
a
servant
of
Christ
,
Du
Moulin
from
his
Enemies
,
who
took
refuge
there
in
that
Bloody
ParisJan
Massacre
.
A
Hen
shall
sustain
another
many
dayes
at
the
same
time
,
by
lodging
her
egg
every
day
,
in
the
place
where
he
had
hid
himself
from
the
Cut-throats
.
Examples
might
be
easily
multiplied
in
the
case
;
but
the
truth
is
too
plain
and
obvious
to
the
observation
of
all
ages
to
need
them
.
And
can
we
but
acknowledge
a
divine
and
special
Providence
over-ruling
these
matters
,
when
we
see
the
most
apt
and
potent
means
for
the
Churches
ruine
frustrated
,
and
the
most
silly
and
contemptible
means
succeeded
and
prospered
for
its
good
?
Fourth
Demand
.
If
all
things
be
governed
by
the
course
of
nature
,
and
force
of
natural
causes
,
How
then
comes
it
to
pass
,
that
men
are
turned
(
like
a
bowle
by
a
rub
)
out
of
the
way
of
evil
,
unto
which
they
were
driving
on
with
full
speed
?
Good
men
have
been
engaged
in
the
way
to
their
own
ruine
,
and
knew
it
not
;
but
Providence
hath
met
them
in
the
way
and
preserved
them
by
strange
diversions
,
the
meaning
of
which
they
understood
not
,
till
the
Event
discovered
it
.
Paul
lay
bound
at
Caesarca
,
the
High
PrJest
and
chief
of
the
Jews
request
Festu●
,
that
he
might
be
brought
bound
to
Jerusalem
,
having
laid
wait
in
the
way
to
kill
him
;
but
Festus
(
though
ignorant
of
the
plot
)
utterly
refuses
it
,
but
chu●es
rather
to
go
with
them
to
Caesarea
,
and
judge
him
there
:
by
this
rub
,
their
bloody
design
is
frustrated
,
Acts
25.
3
,
4.
Possido●●●●
in
the
li●e
of
Augustine
,
And
as
memorable
and
wonder●ul
are
those
rubs
and
diversions
wicked
men
have
met
with
in
the
way
of
perpetrating
the
evils
conceived
and
intended
in
their
own
hearts
.
Numb.
22.
25
,
38.
Saul
the
High-Priest's
Blood-hound
,
breaths
out
threatnings
against
the
Church
,
and
goes
with
a
bloody
commission
towards
Damas●us
,
to
hale
the
poor
●lock
of
Christ
to
the
slaughter
;
but
when
he
comes
nigh
the
place
,
he
meets
an
unexpected
stop
in
the
way
,
by
which
the
mischief
is
not
only
diverted
,
but
himself
converted
to
Christ
,
Acts
9.
1
,
2
,
3
,
4.
Who
can
but
see
the
singer
of
God
in
these
things
?
Fifth
Demand
.
If
there
be
not
an
over-ruling
Providence
ordering
all
things
for
the
good
of
Gods
people
,
How
comes
it
to
pass
,
that
the
good
and
evil
which
is
done
to
them
in
this
world
,
is
accordingly
repaid
into
the
bosoms
of
them
that
are
instrumental
therein
?
1.
How
clear
is
it
to
every
mans
observation
,
that
the
kindnesses
and
benefits
any
have
done
to
the
Lords
people
,
have
been
rewarded
with
full
measure
into
their
bosoms
?
The
EgyptJan
Midwives
res●sed
to
obey
Pharaoh's
inhumane
command
,
and
saved
the
Male
Children
of
Israel
:
for
this
the
Lord
dealt
well
with
them
,
and
built
them
houses
,
Exod.
1.
21.
The
Shunamite
was
hospitable
,
and
careful
for
Elisha
,
and
God
recompenced
it
with
the
desirable
enjoyment
of
a
Son
,
2
Kings
4.
9.
17.
Rahab
hid
the
Spies
,
and
was
exempted
from
the
common
destruction
,
for
it
Heb.
11.
31.
PublJus
the
chief
man
of
the
Island
Melita
,
courteously
received
and
lodged
Paul
after
his
shipwrack
:
the
Lord
speedily
repaid
him
for
that
kindness
,
and
healed
his
Father
,
who
lay
sick
at
that
time
of
a
Bloody
Flux
and
Fever
,
Acts
28.
7
,
8.
—
In
like
manner
,
Alstedii
Nat.
Theol.
p.
196.
we
find
the
evils
done
to
Gods
people
have
been
repaid
,
by
a
just
retribution
to
their
enemies
.
Pharaoh
and
the
EgyptJans
were
cruel
enemies
to
Gods
Israel
,
and
designed
the
ruine
of
their
poor
innocent
babes
;
and
God
repaid
it
,
in
smiting
all
the
first-born
of
Egypt
in
one
night
,
Exod.
12.
29.
Haman
erected
a
Gallows
fifty
Cubits
high
for
good
Mordecai
,
and
God
so
ordered
it
,
that
himself
and
his
ten
Sons
were
hanged
on
it
.
And
indeed
it
was
but
meet
,
that
he
should
eat
the
fruit
of
that
tree
which
himself
had
planted
,
Esther
7.
10.
Ahitophel
plots
against
David
,
and
gives
counsel
like
an
Oracle
,
how
to
procure
his
fall
;
and
that
very
counsel
,
like
a
surcharged
Gun
,
recoils
upon
himself
,
and
procures
his
ruine
:
for
seeing
his
good
counsel
rejected
,
(
good
politically
,
not
morally
,
)
it
was
now
easie
for
him
to
guess
at
the
issue
,
and
so
at
his
own
fate
,
2
Sam.
17.
23.
Charles
the
Ninth
most
inhumanely
made
the
very
Canals
of
Paris
to
stream
with
Protestant
blood
,
and
soon
after
he
died
miserably
,
his
blood
streaming
from
all
parts
of
his
body
.
Stephen
Gardiner
,
that
burnt
so
many
of
Gods
dear
servants
to
ashes
,
was
himself
so
scorched
up
by
a
terrible
inflammation
,
that
his
very
tongue
was
black
and
hung
out
of
his
mouth
,
and
in
dreadful
torments
ended
his
wretched
dayes
.
Maximinus
that
cruel
Emperour
,
who
set
forth
his
ProclamatJon
engraven
in
Brass
,
for
the
utter
abolishing
of
the
Christian
Religion
,
was
speedily
smitten
like
Herod
,
with
a
dreadful
judgement
,
swarms
of
Lice
preying
upon
his
Entrails
,
and
causing
such
a
stench
,
that
his
PhysicJans
could
not
endure
to
come
nigh
him
,
and
for
refusing
it
were
slain
.
Hundreds
of
like
Instances
might
easily
be
produced
,
to
confirm
this
Observation
.
And
who
can
but
see
by
these
things
,
that
verily
there
is
a
God
that
judgeth
in
the
Earth
?
Yea
,
so
exact
have
been
the
retributJons
of
Providence
to
the
Enemies
of
the
Church
,
that
not
only
the
same
persons
,
but
the
same
members
that
have
been
the
instruments
of
mischJef
,
have
been
made
the
subjects
of
wrath
.
The
same
Arm
which
Jeroboam
stretched
out
to
smite
the
Prophet
,
God
smites
.
The
Emperour
AurelJan
when
he
was
ready
to
subscribe
the
Edict
for
the
persecution
of
the
ChristJans
,
Mr.
Greenhill
in
his
Exposition
upon
Ezek.
11.
13.
tells
his
Auditory
,
that
there
was
one
then
present
in
the
Congregation
,
who
was
an
eye-witness
of
a
Woman
scossing
at
another
for
purity
and
holy
walking
,
who
had
her
tongue
stricken
immediately
w●th
the
Palsie
,
and
died
thereof
within
two
dayes
.
Henry
the
Second
of
France
in
a
great
rage
against
a
Protestant
Counsellor
,
committed
him
to
the
hands
of
one
of
his
Nobles
to
be
imprisoned
,
and
that
with
these
words
,
that
he
would
see
him
burned
with
his
own
eyes
:
but
mark
the
righteous
providence
of
God
,
within
a
●ew
dayes
after
,
the
same
Noble
man
,
with
a
Lance
put
into
his
hands
by
the
King
,
did
at
a
Tilting
match
run
the
said
King
into
one
of
his
eyes
,
whereof
he
dyed
.
Yea
,
Providence
hath
made
the
very
place
of
sinning
,
the
place
of
punishment
,
1
King
.
21.
19.
In
the
place
where
Dogs
licked
the
blood
of
Naboth
,
shall
Dogs
lick
,
thy
blood
:
and
it
was
exactly
fulfilled
,
2
Kings
9.
26.
Thus
Tophet
is
made
a
burying
place
for
the
Jews
,
till
there
was
no
room
to
bury
;
and
that
was
the
place
where
they
had
offered
up
their
Sons
to
Molech
,
Jer.
7.
31
,
32.
The
Story
of
Nightingale
is
generally
known
which
Mr.
Fox
relates
,
how
he
f●ll
out
of
the
Pulpit
and
brake
his
neck
,
whilst
he
was
abusing
that
Scripture
,
1
John
1.
10.
And
thus
the
Scriptures
are
made
good
by
Providence
,
whoso
diggeth
a
pit
shall
fall
therein
,
and
he
that
rolleth
a
stone
,
it
shall
return
upon
him
,
Prov.
26.
27.
and
Matth.
7.
2.
with
what
measure
you
mete
,
it
shall
be
measured
to
you
again
.
If
any
shall
yet
say
,
We
answer
with
Augustine
,
Sixth
Demand
.
If
these
things
be
meerly
casual
,
How
is
it
that
they
square
and
agree
so
exactly
with
the
Scriptures
in
all
particulars
?
We
read
,
Amos
3.
3
:
Can
two
walk
together
except
they
be
agreed
?
If
two
men
travel
in
one
road
,
it
's
like
they
are
agreed
to
go
to
the
same
place
.
Providences
and
Scriptures
go
all
one
way
:
and
if
they
seem
at
any
time
to
go
diverse
or
contrary
waies
;
be
sure
,
they
will
meet
at
the
journeys
●nd
.
There
is
an
agreement
betwixt
them
so
to
do
.
Doth
God
miraculously
suspend
the
power
of
natural
Causes
,
as
in
the
first
Demand
was
opened
?
Why
,
this
is
no
accidental
thing
,
but
what
harmonizeth
with
the
word
,
Isa.
4.
3.
2.
When
thou
passest
through
the
waters
,
I
will
be
with
thee
,
and
through
the
rivers
,
they
shall
not
overflow
thee
.
When
thou
walkest
through
the
fire
,
thou
shalt
not
be
burnt
,
neither
shall
the
shame
kindle
upon
thee
.
Do
natural
Causes
unite
and
associate
themselves
for
the
good
of
Gods
people
?
Why
,
this
is
no
more
than
what
is
contained
in
the
Promises
,
and
is
but
the
●ul●illing
of
that
Scripture
,
1
Cor.
3.
22.
All
is
yours
,
for
ye
are
Christs
;
(
i.
e.
)
the
use
,
benefit
and
service
of
all
the
Creatures
is
for
you
,
as
your
need
shall
require
.
Are
the
most
apt
and
powerful
means
employed
for
their
ruine
frustrated
?
Who
can
but
see
the
Scriptures
fulfilled
in
,
and
expounded
by
such
Providences
?
See
Isa.
54.
15
,
16
,
17.
and
8.
8
,
9
,
10.
expounded
by
2
Kings
18.
17.
&
seq.
See
you
at
any
time
a
rub
of
Providence
diverting
the
course
of
good
men
from
falling
into
evil
,
or
wicked
men
from
committing
evil
;
how
loudly
do
such
Providences
proclaim
the
truth
and
certainty
of
the
Scriptures
,
which
tell
us
,
That
the
way
of
man
is
not
in
himself
,
neither
is
it
in
him
that
walks
to
direct
his
steps
,
Jer.
10.
23.
and
that
in
Prov.
16.
9.
A
mans
heart
deviseth
his
way
,
but
the
Lord
directeth
his
steps
.
Do
you
see
adequate
retributions
made
to
those
that
injure
or
befriend
the
people
of
God
?
Why
,
when
you
see
all
the
kindness
and
love
they
have
shown
the
Saints
returned
with
an
Overplus
into
their
bosoms
;
how
is
it
possible
,
but
you
must
see
the
accomplishment
of
these
Scriptures
in
such
Providences
?
Isa.
32.
8.
2
Cor.
9.
6.
The
liberal
soul
deviseth
liberal
things
,
and
by
liberal
things
he
shall
stand
.
And
when
you
see
the
evils
men
have
done
,
or
intended
to
do
to
the
Lords
people
,
recoiling
upon
themselves
;
he
is
perfectly
blind
,
that
sees
not
the
harmony
such
Providences
bear
with
these
Scriptures
,
Psal.
140.
11
,
12.
Psal.
7.
14
,
15
,
16.
Psal.
9.
16.
O
what
exact
proportions
do
Providences
and
Scriptures
hold
!
little
do
men
take
notice
of
it
.
Why
did
Cyru●
contrary
to
all
rules
of
State
policy
freely
dismiss
the
Captives
,
but
to
fulfil
that
Scripture
,
Isa.
45.
13.
So
that
it
was
well
observed
by
One
,
That
as
God
hath
stretcht
out
the
Expansum
or
Firmament
over
the
natural
;
so
he
hath
stretcht
out
his
Word
over
the
rational
World
.
And
as
the
Creatures
on
earth
are
influenced
by
those
heavenly
bodies
,
so
are
all
Creatures
in
the
World
influenced
by
the
Word
,
and
do
in●allibly
fulfil
it
,
when
they
design
to
cross
it
.
Seventh
Demand
.
If
these
things
be
contingent
,
How
is
it
that
they
fall
out
in
such
remarkable
nicks
and
junctures
of
time
,
which
makes
them
so
greatly
observable
to
all
that
consider
them
?
We
find
a
multitude
of
Providences
so
timed
to
a
minute
,
that
had
they
fallen
out
never
so
little
sooner
or
later
,
they
had
signified
but
little
what
now
they
do
.
Certainly
,
it
cannot
be
casualty
,
but
counsel
,
that
so
exactly
nicks
the
opportunity
.
Wendelin
.
Theol.
p.
183.
Contingen●●●
▪
keep
to
no
Rules
.
How
remarkable
to
this
purpose
,
was
the
tidings
brought
to
Saul
,
that
the
Philistines
had
invaded
the
Land
?
1
Sam.
23.
27.
just
as
he
was
ready
to
grasp
the
prey
.
The
Angel
calls
to
Abraham
,
and
shews
him
another
Sacrifice
,
just
when
his
hand
was
giving
the
●atal
stroke
to
Isaac
,
Gen.
22.
10
,
11.
A
Well
of
water
is
discovered
to
Hagar
,
just
when
she
had
le●t
the
Child
,
as
not
able
to
see
its
death
,
Gen.
21.
16
,
19.
Rabshak●h
meets
with
a
blasting
Providence
,
hears
a
rumour
that
frustrated
his
design
,
just
when
ready
to
give
the
shock
against
Jerusalem
,
Isa.
27.
7
,
8.
So
when
Haman's
plot
against
the
Jews
was
ripe
,
and
all
things
ready
for
execution
;
On
that
night
could
not
the
King
sleep
,
Esth.
6.
1.
When
the
horns
are
ready
to
gore
Judah
,
immediately
Carpenters
are
prepared
to
●ray
them
away
,
Zech.
1.
18
,
19
,
20
,
21.
How
remarkable
was
the
relief
of
Rochell
by
a
Shoal
of
Fish
that
came
into
the
Harbour
,
when
they
were
ready
to
perish
with
famine
,
such
as
they
never
observed
before
,
nor
after
that
time
.
Mr.
Dod
could
not
go
to
bed
one
night
,
but
hath
a
strong
impulse
to
visit
,
(
though
unseasonably
)
a
neighbour
Gentleman
,
and
just
as
he
came
,
he
meets
him
at
his
door
,
with
an
halter
in
his
pocket
,
just
going
to
hang
himself
.
Dr.
Tate
and
his
Wife
in
the
Irish
RebellJon
,
flying
through
the
Woods
with
a
Sucking-Child
,
which
was
just
ready
to
expire
;
the
Mother
going
to
rest
it
upon
a
Rock
,
puts
her
hand
upon
a
bottle
of
warm
Milk
,
by
which
it
was
preserved
.
A
good
Woman
(
from
whose
mouth
I
received
it
)
being
driven
to
a
great
extremity
,
all
supplies
failing
,
was
exceedingly
plunged
into
unbelieving
doubts
and
fears
,
not
seeing
whence
supplies
should
come
;
when
lo
!
in
the
nick
of
time
,
turning
some
things
in
a
Chest
,
unexpectedly
lights
upon
a
piece
of
Gold
,
which
supplied
her
present
wants
,
till
God
opened
another
door
of
supply
.
If
these
things
fall
out
casually
,
how
is
it
,
they
observe
the
very
nick
of
time
so
exactly
?
as
that
it
is
become
proverbial
in
Scripture
,
Gen.
22.
14.
In
the
Mount
of
the
Lord
it
shall
be
seen
.
Eighth
Demand
.
Lastly
,
Were
these
things
casual
and
contingent
,
how
can
it
be
,
that
they
should
fall
out
so
immediately
upon
,
and
consonantly
to
the
prayers
of
the
Saints
?
So
that
in
many
Providences
,
they
are
able
to
discern
a
very
clear
answer
to
their
prayers
,
and
are
sure
they
have
the
petitions
they
asked
of
him
,
1
John
5.
15.
Thus
when
the
Sea
divided
it self
,
just
upon
Israels
cry
to
Heaven
,
Exod.
14.
10.
When
so
signal
a
victory
is
given
to
Asa
,
immediately
upon
that
pathetical
cry
to
Heaven
,
Help
us
O
Lord
our
God
,
2
Chron.
14.
11
,
12.
When
Ahitophel
shall
go
and
hang
himself
,
just
upon
that
prayer
of
distressed
David
,
2
Sam.
15.
31.
When
Haman
shall
fall
and
his
plot
be
broken
,
just
upon
the
Fast
kept
by
Mordecai
and
Hester
,
Esth.
4.
16.
Our
own
Speed
,
in
his
History
of
Britain
,
tells
us
,
that
Richard
the
First
besieged
a
Castle
with
his
Army
,
they
offered
to
surrender
,
if
he
would
save
their
lives
;
he
refuses
,
and
threatens
to
hang
them
all
:
upon
this
an
Arbalaster
charged
his
Bow
with
a
square
Arrow
,
making
first
his
prayer
to
God
,
that
he
would
direct
the
shot
,
and
deliver
the
Innocent
from
oppression
;
it
struck
the
King
himself
,
whereof
he
dyed
,
and
they
were
delivered
.
Abraham's
servant
prayed
for
success
;
and
see
how
it
was
answered
,
Gen.
24.
45.
Peter
was
cast
into
prison
,
and
prayer
was
made
for
him
by
the
Church
,
and
see
the
event
,
Acts
12.
5
,
6
,
7
,
12.
I
could
easily
add
to
these
,
the
wonderful
examples
of
the
return
of
prayers
which
was
observed
in
Luther
,
and
Dr.
Winter
in
Ireland
,
and
many
more
;
but
I
judge
it
needless
,
because
most
Christians
have
a
stock
of
experience
of
their
own
,
and
are
well
assured
,
that
many
of
the
Providences
that
befal
them
are
,
and
can
be
no
other
than
the
return
of
their
prayers
.
And
now
who
can
be
dissatisfied
in
this
point
,
that
wisely
considers
these
things
?
Must
we
not
conclude
as
it
is
,
Job
36.
7.
He
withdraweth
not
his
eye
from
the
Righteous
:
and
as
2
Chron.
16.
9.
The
eyes
of
the
Lord
run
to
and
fro
through
the
whole
earth
,
to
shew
himself
strong
in
tho
behalf
of
them
whose
heart
is
perfect
towards
him
.
His
providences
proclaim
him
to
be
a
God
hearing
prayers
.
The
Second
General
Head
.
HAving
proved
,
That
the
Concernments
of
the
Saints
in
this
World
,
are
certainly
conducted
by
the
wisdom
and
care
of
special
Providence
;
my
next
work
is
to
shew
you
,
In
what
Affairs
and
Concerns
of
theirs
,
the
Providence
of
God
doth
more
especJally
appear
;
or
what
are
the
most
remarkable
performances
of
Providence
for
them
in
this
world
.
And
here
I
am
not
led
directly
by
my
Text
,
to
speak
of
the
most
internal
and
spiritual
performances
of
Providence
,
immediately
relating
to
the
souls
of
his
people
;
though
they
all
relate
to
their
souls
mediately
and
eventually
;
but
of
the
more
visible
and
external
performances
of
Providence
for
them
:
and
it
is
not
to
be
supposed
,
I
should
touch
all
these
neither
;
they
are
more
than
the
sands
;
but
that
which
I
aim
at
,
is
to
discourse
to
you
some
more
special
and
more
observable
performances
of
Providence
for
you
.
And
we
shall
begin
at
the
beginning
.
The
first
Performance
of
Providence
.
I.
ANd
First
,
My
substance
was
not
hid
from
thee
,
when
I
was
made
in
secret
,
and
curJously
wrought
in
the
lower
parts
of
the
earth
.
The
Womb
is
so
called
upon
this
account
,
because
as
curious
Artists
,
when
they
have
some
choice
piece
in
hand
,
perfect
it
in
private
,
and
then
bring
it
into
the
light
for
all
to
gaze
at
;
so
it
was
here
.
And
there
are
two
things
admirable
in
this
performance
of
Providence
for
us
.
The
rare
structure
and
excellent
composition
of
the
body
;
I
am
wonderfully
made
;
that
word
Ru●hampti
—
is
very
full
.
The
Vulgar
renders
it
,
painted
as
with
a
needle
,
(
i.
e.
)
richly
embroidered
with
nerves
and
veins
.
Oh
the
curious
workmanship
that
is
in
that
one
part
the
eye
!
How
hath
it
forced
some
to
acknowledge
a
God
upon
the
examination
of
it
!
Providence
,
when
it
went
about
this
work
,
had
its
model
or
pattern
before
it
,
according
to
which
it
molded
every
part
,
as
it
is
,
Ver.
16.
In
thy
Book
were
all
my
members
written
.
Hast
thou
an
integral
perfection
and
sulness
of
members
?
It
is
because
he
wrote
them
all
in
his
Book
,
or
limned
out
thy
body
,
according
to
that
exact
model
which
he
drew
of
thee
in
his
own
gracious
purpose
,
before
thou
hadst
a
being
:
Had
an
eye
,
an
ear
,
a
hand
,
a
foot
been
wanting
in
the
platform
,
thou
hadst
now
been
sadly
sensible
of
the
defect
:
this
world
had
been
but
a
dungeon
to
thee
,
without
those
windows
:
thou
hadst
lived
,
as
many
do
,
an
object
of
pity
to
others
:
if
thou
have
low
thoughts
of
this
mercy
,
ask
the
blind
,
the
deaf
,
the
lame
and
the
dumb
,
the
value
and
worth
of
those
mercies
,
and
they
will
tell
thee
.
There
is
a
world
of
cost
bestowed
upon
thy
very
body
.
Thou
mightest
have
been
cast
into
another
mould
,
●●ther
in
●rtJum
●●●cept
.
●here
are
●me
●embers
●●at
are
●●tical
,
as
〈◊〉
liver
,
●●are
and
●rain
,
in
●●ese
are
●laced
the
●atural
,
●●tal
and
●●nimal
●●irits
;
●●ese
spi●●ts
are
●●rried
by
〈◊〉
Veins
,
●rteries
〈◊〉
Nerves
.
●he
Veins
carry
the
natural
Spirits
from
the
Liver
,
the
Arteries
the
vi●l
Spirits
from
the
Heart
,
the
Nerves
the
animal
Spirits
from
the
●rain
:
other
members
are
officJal
,
as
the
hands
and
feet
:
the
superi●●r
doth
rule
the
inferiour
,
and
the
inferiour
support
the
superiour
▪
〈◊〉
wisdom
hast
thou
made
them
all
.
and
created
a
Worm
or
a
Toad
.
I
remember
Luther
tells
us
of
two
Cardinals
,
riding
in
great
pomp
to
the
Council
of
Constance
,
and
by
the
way
they
heard
a
man
in
the
fields
bitterly
weeping
and
wailing
:
when
they
came
to
him
,
they
found
him
intently
viewing
an
ugly
Toad
;
and
asking
him
,
why
he
wept
so
bitterly
,
he
told
them
,
his
heart
was
melted
with
this
consideration
,
that
God
had
not
made
him
such
a
loathsome
and
deformed
Creature
;
hoc
est
quod
amarè
fleo
,
said
he
:
whereupon
one
of
them
cryes
out
,
Well
said
the
Father
,
Surgunt
indocti
,
&
rapJent
Coelum
,
The
unlearned
will
rise
and
take
Heaven
,
and
we
with
all
our
learning
shall
be
cast
into
Hell
.
No
part
of
the
Common
lump
was
so
figured
and
polisht
as
man
is
.
Galen
gave
Epicurus
an
hundred
years
time
to
imagine
a
more
commodious
scituation
,
configuration
,
or
composition
of
any
one
member
of
a
humane
body
.
And
if
all
the
Angels
had
studied
to
this
day
,
they
could
not
have
cast
the
body
of
man
into
a
more
curious
mould
.
And
yet
all
this
is
but
the
enamelling
of
the
Case
,
or
polishing
the
Casket
wherein
the
rare
Jewel
lies
.
Providence
hath
not
only
built
the
house
,
but
brought
the
Inhabitant
(
I
mean
the
soul
)
into
the
possession
of
it
.
A
glorious
piece
it
is
,
that
bears
the
very
Image
of
God
upon
it
,
being
all
in
all
,
and
all
in
every
part
.
How
noble
are
its
Faculties
and
Affections
?
How
nimble
,
various
and
indesatigable
are
its
Motions
?
How
comprehensive
is
its
Capacity
?
It
's
a
Companion
for
Angels
,
nay
,
capable
o●
Espousals
to
Christ
,
and
eternal
Communion
with
God
.
It
's
the
Wonder
of
Earth
,
and
the
Envy
of
Hell
.
Suppose
now
(
and
why
should
you
not
suppose
,
what
you
so
frequently
b●hold
in
the
world
?
)
that
Providence
had
so
permitted
and
ordered
it
,
that
thy
soul
had
entered
into
thy
body
with
one
or
two
of
its
faculties
wounded
and
defective
:
Suppose
its
Vnderstanding
had
been
crackt
;
what
a
miserable
life
hadst
thou
lived
in
this
world
?
neither
capable
of
service
nor
comfort
.
And
truly
,
when
I
have
considered
those
works
of
Providence
,
in
bringing
into
the
world
in
all
Countreys
and
Ages
some
such
spectacles
of
pity
;
some
deprived
of
the
use
of
reason
,
and
differing
from
Beasts
,
in
little
more
than
shape
and
●igure
;
and
others
,
though
sound
in
their
understandings
,
yet
deformed
or
defective
in
their
bodies
,
monstrous
,
mishapen
and
loathsome
Creatures
;
I
can
resolve
the
design
of
this
Providence
,
into
nothing
beside
a
demonstration
of
his
Soveraign
power
;
except
they
be
designed
as
soils
,
to
set
off
the
beauty
of
other
rare
and
exquisite
pieces
,
and
intended
to
stand
before
your
eyes
,
as
Monitors
of
Gods
mercy
to
you
,
that
your
hearts
(
as
oft
as
you
beheld
them
)
might
be
m●lted
into
thankfulness
for
distinguishing
favour
to
you
.
Look
then
(
but
not
proudly
)
upon
thy
outside
and
inside
,
see
and
admire
what
Providence
hath
done
for
thee
,
and
how
well
it
hath
performed
the
first
service
that
ever
it
did
for
thee
in
this
world
.
And
yet
,
this
was
not
all
it
did
for
thee
,
before
thou
sawest
this
world
.
It
preserved
thee
,
as
well
as
formed
thee
in
the
womb
:
else
thou
hadst
been
as
those
Embryo's
Job
speaks
of
,
Job
3.
11
,
12.
that
never
saw
the
light
.
Abortives
go
for
nothing
in
the
world
,
and
there
are
multitudes
of
them
,
some
that
never
had
a
reasonable
soul
breathed
into
them
;
but
only
the
rudiments
,
and
rough
draught
of
a
body
:
these
come
not
into
the
account
of
men
,
but
perish
as
the
Beast
doth
.
Others
that
dye
in
,
or
shortly
after
they
come
out
of
the
Womb
:
and
though
their
life
was
but
for
a
moment
;
yet
that
moment
entails
an
Eternity
upon
them
:
and
had
this
been
your
case
,
as
it
is
the
case
of
Millions
,
then
(
supposing
your
salvation
)
yet
had
you
been
utterly
unserviceable
to
God
in
the
world
:
None
had
been
the
better
for
you
,
nor
you
the
better
for
any
in
the
world
.
You
had
been
utterly
uncapable
of
all
that
good
which
throughout
your
life
you
have
either
done
to
others
,
or
received
from
others
.
And
if
we
consider
the
nature
of
that
obscure
life
we
lived
in
tho
womb
;
how
small
an
accident
(
had
it
been
permitted
by
Providence
)
had
extinguished
our
life
,
like
a
Bird
in
the
shell
?
We
cannot
therefore
but
admire
the
tender
care
of
Providence
over
us
,
and
say
with
the
Psalmist
,
Psal.
139.
13.
Thou
hast
covered
me
in
my
Mothers
womb
:
and
not
only
so
,
but
as
it
is
,
Psal.
22.
9.
Thou
art
he
that
took
me
out
of
my
Mothers
womb
.
He
preserved
thee
there
to
the
fulness
of
time
,
and
when
that
time
was
come
,
brought
thee
safely
through
manifold
hazards
,
into
that
place
in
the
world
which
he
from
Eternity
espied
for
thee
.
Which
leads
us
to
the
second
performance
.
The
Second
Performance
of
Providence
.
II.
THe
second
great
performance
of
Providence
,
for
the
people
of
God
,
respects
the
place
,
and
time
in
which
it
ordered
their
Nativity
to
fall
.
And
truly
,
this
is
no
small
concernment
to
every
one
of
us
,
but
of
vast
consequence
,
either
to
our
good
or
evil
,
though
it
be
little
minded
by
most
men
.
I
am
perswaded
,
the
thoughts
of
●ew
Christians
penetrate
deep
enough
into
this
Providence
,
but
slide
too
slightly
and
supersicially
over
an
Abysse
of
much
mercy
,
rich
and
mani●old
mercy
wrapt
up
in
this
gracious
performance
of
Providence
for
them
.
Ah
friends
!
can
you
think
it
an
indifferent
thing
,
into
what
part
of
the
World
the
womb
of
Nature
had
cast
you
out
?
Is
there
no
odds
,
upon
what
Spot
of
the
Creation
,
or
in
what
Age
of
the
World
your
lot
had
fallen
?
It
may
be
you
have
not
seriously
bethought
your selves
about
this
matter
.
And
because
this
Point
is
so
seldom
toucht
,
I
will
therefore
dive
a
little
more
particularly
and
distinctly
into
it
,
and
endeavour
to
warm
your
affections
with
a
representation
of
the
many
and
rich
benefits
you
owe
to
this
one
performance
of
Providence
for
you
.
And
we
will
consider
it
under
a
double
respect
or
relation
,
as
it
respects
your
present
comfort
in
this
world
,
and
as
it
relates
to
your
eternal
happiness
in
the
world
to
come
.
This
performance
of
Providence
for
you
,
doth
very
much
concern
your
present
comfort
in
this
world
.
All
the
rooms
in
this
great
house
are
not
alike
pleasant
and
commodious
for
the
Inhabitants
of
it
.
You
read
Psal.
74.
20.
of
the
dark
places
of
the
Earth
,
which
are
full
of
the
habitatJonr
of
cruelty
:
and
many
such
dismal
places
are
found
in
the
habitable
Earth
.
What
a
vast
tract
of
the
world
lies
as
a
waste
Wilderness
?
Suppose
your
Mothers
had
brought
you
forth
in
America
,
among
the
Salvage
IndJans
,
who
herd
together
as
brute
beasts
;
are
scorched
with
heat
,
and
starved
with
cold
;
being
naked
,
destitute
and
defenceless
.
How
poor
,
miserable
and
unprovided
of
Earthly
comforts
and
accommodations
,
are
many
Millions
of
the
Inhabitants
of
this
world
?
What
mercies
do
you
enjoy
in
respect
of
the
amaenity
,
fertility
,
temperature
and
civility
of
the
place
of
your
habitation
?
What
is
it
but
a
Garden
inclosed
out
of
a
Wilderness
?
I
may
without
partiality
or
vanity
say
,
God
hath
(
even
upon
temporal
accounts
)
provided
you
with
one
of
the
healthfullest
,
pleasantest
,
and
in
all
respects
,
the
best
furnished
room
in
all
the
great
house
of
this
world
.
Hear
what
our
own
Chronicler
saith
of
it
,
It
is
the
fortunate
Island
,
the
Paradise
of
pleasure
,
the
Garden
of
God
;
whose
Valleys
are
like
Eden
,
whose
Hills
are
as
Lebanon
,
whose
Springs
are
as
Pisgah
,
whose
Rivers
are
as
Jordan
,
whose
Wall
is
the
Ocean
,
and
whose
Defence
is
the
Lord
Jehovah
.
You
are
here
provided
of
necessary
and
comfortable
accommodations
for
your
bodies
,
that
a
great
part
of
the
world
are
unacquainted
with
.
It
is
not
with
the
poorest
among
us
,
as
it
is
said
to
be
with
the
poor
RussJans
,
whose
poverty
pinches
and
bites
with
such
sharp
teeth
,
that
their
poo●
cry
at
the
doors
,
Give
me
and
cut
me
,
give
me
and
kill
me
.
Say
not
,
The
barbarous
Nations
in
this
excel
you
;
that
they
possess
the
Mines
of
Silver
and
Gold
,
which
it
may
be
you
think
enough
to
salve
all
other
inconveniences
of
life
.
Alas
poor
Creatures
!
better
had
it
been
for
them
,
if
their
Countrey
had
brought
forth
Bryers
and
Thorns
instead
of
Gold
,
Silver
,
and
precJous
stones
;
for
this
hath
been
the
occasion
of
ruining
all
their
other
comforts
in
this
world
:
this
hath
invited
their
cruel
avaritious
enemies
among
them
,
under
whose
servitude
they
groan
,
and
dye
without
mercy
:
and
thousands
of
them
have
chosen
death
rather
than
life
,
on
the
terms
they
enjoyed
it
.
And
why
might
not
your
lot
have
fallen
there
as
well
as
where
it
is
?
Are
not
they
made
of
the
same
clay
,
and
endowed
with
as
good
a
nature
as
your selves
?
O
what
a
distinction
hath
Divine
Mercy
made
,
where
Nature
made
none
!
Consider
ungrateful
man
,
thou
mightest
have
fallen
into
some
of
those
Regions
,
where
a
tainted
air
frequently
cloyes
the
jaws
of
death
,
where
the
Inhabitants
differ
very
little
from
the
Beasts
in
the
manner
of
their
living
:
but
God
hath
provided
for
thee
,
and
given
the
poorest
among
us
far
better
accommodations
of
life
,
than
the
greatest
among
them
are
ordinarily
provided
with
.
O
what
hath
Providence
done
for
you
?
But
all
that
I
have
said
is
very
inconsiderable
,
in
compa●ison
with
the
spiritual
mercJes
,
and
advantages
you
here
enjoy
for
your
souls
.
Oh
,
this
is
such
an
advantageous
cast
of
Providence
for
you
,
as
obliges
you
to
a
thankful
acknowledgement
of
it
,
to
all
Eternity
.
For
let
us
here
make
but
a
few
suppositions
in
the
case
before
us
,
and
the
glory
of
Providence
will
shine
like
a
Sun-beam
full
in
your
faces
.
(
1.
)
Suppose
it
had
been
your
Lot
to
have
fallen
in
any
of
those
vast
Continents
possessed
by
Pagans
and
Heathens
at
this
day
,
who
bow
down
to
the
Stock
of
a
Tree
,
and
worship
the
Host
of
Heaven
.
This
is
the
case
of
Millions
,
and
Millions
of
Millions
:
●●Jerwoods
EnquirJes
,
●hap.
13.
p.
118
,
119
for
Pagan
Idola●●rs
(
as
that
searching
Scholar
Mr.
Bri●●wood
informs
us
)
do
not
only
fill
the
circumference
of
nine
hundred
miles
in
Europe
,
but
almost
the
one
half
of
Africa
,
more
than
the
half
of
AsJa
,
and
almost
the
whole
of
America
.
Oh
how
deplorable
had
thy
case
been
,
if
a
Pagan
Idolatress
had
brought
thee
forth
,
and
Idolatry
had
been
suckt
in
with
thy
Mothers
milk
!
then
in
all
probability
,
thou
hadst
been
at
this
day
worshipping
Devils
,
and
posting
with
full
speed
in
the
direct
road
to
Damnation
:
for
these
are
the
people
of
Gods
wrath
,
Jer.
10.
25.
Pour
out
thy
fury
upon
the
Heathen
that
know
the●
not
,
and
upon
the
familJes
that
call
not
upon
thy
name
.
How
dreadful
is
that
imprecation
against
them
?
●sal.
97.
7.
which
takes
hold
of
them
and
all
that
's
theirs
,
Confounded
be
all
they
that
serve
graven
Images
,
that
boast
themselves
of
Idols
.
(
2.
)
Or
suppose
your
Lot
had
fallen
among
Mahometans
,
who
next
to
Pagans
spread
over
the
greatest
tract
of
the
Earth
:
for
though
ArabJa
bred
that
unclean
Bird
,
yet
it
was
not
that
Cage
,
that
could
long
contain
him
;
for
,
not
only
the
ArabJans
,
but
the
PersJans
,
Turks
and
Tartars
,
do
all
bow
down
their
backs
under
that
grand
Impostor
.
This
poison
hath
dispersed
it self
through
the
veins
of
AsJa
,
over
a
great
part
of
Africk
,
even
the
Circumference
of
seven
thousand
miles
,
and
stops
not
there
,
but
hath
tainted
a
considerable
part
of
Europe
also
.
Had
your
Lot
fallen
here
,
O
what
unhappy
men
and
women
had
you
been
,
notwithstanding
the
natural
amenity
and
pleasantness
of
your
native
soil
?
You
had
then
adored
a
grand
Impostor
,
and
dyed
in
a
fools
Paradise
.
Instead
of
Gods
lively
Oracles
,
you
had
been
(
as
they
now
are
)
deceived
to
your
eternal
ruine
with
such
fond
,
mad
and
wild
dreams
,
as
whoso
considers
would
think
,
the
Authors
had
more
need
of
manacles
and
fetters
,
than
arguments
or
sober
answers
.
(
3.
)
Or
if
neither
of
these
had
been
your
Lot
,
but
you
had
been
emptied
by
the
womb
of
Nature
into
this
little
spot
of
the
Earth
which
is
ChristJanized
by
profession
,
but
nevertheless
for
the
most
part
over-run
by
Popish
Idolatry
,
and
AntichristJan
delusions
;
what
unhappy
men
and
women
had
you
been
,
had
you
suckt
a
Popish
breast
?
For
this
people
are
to
be
the
subjects
of
the
VJals
of
Gods
wrath
to
be
poured
out
successively
upon
them
,
as
you
may
read
Rev.
16.
and
the
Scriptures
in
round
and
plain
language
tell
us
,
what
their
fate
must
be
,
2
Thess.
2.
11
,
12.
And
for
this
cause
God
shall
send
them
strong
delusJon
,
that
they
should
belJeve
a
lye
,
that
they
all
migh●
be
damned
who
belJeved
not
the
truth
,
but
had
pleasure
in
unrighteousness
.
Nay
,
you
might
have
fallen
into
the
same
Land
in
which
your
habitation
now
is
,
and
yet
have
had
no
advantage
by
it
as
to
salvation
,
if
he
that
chose
the
bounds
of
your
habitations
,
had
not
also
graciously
determined
the
times
for
you
,
Acts
17.
26.
For
▪
(
4.
)
Suppose
your
Lot
had
fallen
where
it
is
during
the
Pagan
State
of
England
,
who
for
many
hundred
years
were
gross
and
vile
idolaters
.
Thick
darkness
over-spread
the
people
of
this
Island
,
and
as
in
other
Countreys
,
the
Devil
was
worshipped
,
and
his
lying
Oracles
zealously
attended
upon
.
The
shaking
of
the
top
of
Jupiter's
Oak
in
Dodona
,
the
Caldron
smitten
with
the
rod
in
the
hand
of
Jupiter's
Image
,
the
Lawrell
and
Fountain
in
Daphne
:
these
were
the
Ordinances
on
which
the
poor
deluded
Wretches
waited
.
So
in
this
Nation
they
worshipped
Idols
also
:
the
Sun
and
Moon
were
adored
for
Gods
,
(
5.
)
Or
suppose
our
Lot
had
fallen
in
those
later
miserable
dayes
,
in
which
Queen
Mary
sent
so
many
hundreds
to
Heaven
in
a
fiery
Chariot
▪
and
the
poor
Protestants
sk●lked
up
and
down
in
holes
and
woods
,
to
preserve
them
from
Popish
Inquisitors
,
who
like
Blood-hounds
,
hunted
up
and
down
through
all
the
Cities
,
Towns
and
Villages
of
the
Nat●on
,
to
seek
out
the
poor
sheep
of
Christ
for
a
prey
.
But
such
hath
the
special
care
of
Providence
towards
us
been
,
that
our
turn
to
be
brought
upon
the
stage
of
this
World
was
graciously
reserved
for
better
dayes
:
so
that
if
we
had
had
our
own
option
,
we
could
not
have
chosen
for
our selves
,
as
Providence
hath
.
We
are
not
only
furnished
with
the
best
room
in
this
great
ho●se
;
but
before
we
were
put
into
it
,
it
was
swept
with
the
beesom
of
National
Reformation
,
from
Idolatry
,
yea
,
and
washed
by
the
blood
of
Martyrs
from
Popish
filthiness
;
and
adorned
with
Gospel
lights
,
shining
in
as
great
lustre
in
our
dayes
,
as
ever
they
did
since
the
Apostles
dayes
.
You
might
have
been
born
in
England
for
many
Ages
,
and
not
have
found
a
ChristJan
in
it
:
yea
,
and
since
ChristJanity
was
here
owned
,
and
not
have
met
a
Protestant
in
it
.
Oh
what
an
Obligation
hath
Providence
laid
you
under
,
by
such
a
merciful
performance
as
this
for
you
?
If
you
say
,
True
,
(
1.
)
Here
we
enjoy
the
ordinary
means
of
salvation
,
which
elsewhere
men
are
denyed
and
cut
off
from
.
So
that
if
any
among
the
Heathens
be
saved
and
brought
to
Christ
,
it
must
be
in
some
miraculous
or
extraordinary
way
:
for
,
How
shall
th●y
belJeve
in
him
of
whom
they
have
not
heard
▪
and
how
shall
they
hear
without
a
Preacher
?
Rom.
10.
14.
Alas
!
were
there
a
desire
awakened
in
any
of
their
hearts
after
a
Gospel
discovery
of
salvation
,
(
which
ordinarily
is
not
,
nor
can
be
rationally
supposed
)
yet
,
poor
Creatures
,
they
might
travel
from
Sea
to
Sea
,
to
hear
th●
Word
,
and
n●t
find
it
:
whereas
you
can
hardly
miss
the
opportunities
of
hearing
the
Gospel
:
Sermons
meet
you
frequently
,
so
that
you
can
scarcely
shun
or
avoid
the
Ordinances
and
Instruments
of
your
salvation
.
And
is
this
nothing
?
Christ
even
forces
himself
upon
us
.
(
2.
)
Here
,
in
this
Age
of
the
World
,
the
common
prejudices
against
Christianity
are
removed
,
by
the
advantage
it
hath
of
a
publick
profession
among
the
people
▪
and
protection
by
the
Laws
of
the
Countrey
.
Whereas
,
were
your
habitation
among
Jews
▪
Mahometans
,
or
Heathen
Idolaters
▪
you
would
find
Christ
and
ChristJanity
the
common
odJum
of
the
Countrey
▪
every
one
defying
and
deriding
both
name
and
thing
;
and
such
your selves
likely
had
been
,
if
your
birth
and
education
had
been
among
them
.
For
you
may
observe
,
that
whatever
is
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
traditionally
delivered
down
from
Father
to
Son
,
every
one
is
fond
of
,
and
zealous
in
its
defence
.
The
Jews
,
Heathens
and
Mah●metans
are
at
this
day
so
tenacious
of
their
errors
,
that
with
spitting
,
hissing
,
and
clapping
of
hands
,
and
all
other
signs
of
indignation
and
abhorrence
they
chase
away
all
others
from
among
them
.
Is
it
not
then
a
special
mercy
to
you
to
be
cast
into
such
a
Countrey
and
Age
,
where
(
as
a
learned
Divine
observes
)
the
true
Religion
hath
the
same
advantages
over
every
false
one
,
(
3.
)
Here
,
in
this
Age
of
the
World
,
Christianity
bespeaks
you
assoon
as
you
are
capable
of
any
sense
,
or
impressions
o●
Religion
upon
you
;
and
so
by
an
happy
anticipatJon
,
blocks
up
the
passages
,
by
which
a
false
Religion
would
〈◊〉
certainly
enter
.
Here
you
●uck
in
the
first
notions
and
principles
of
Christianity
,
even
with
the
Mothers
milk
:
and
certainly
,
such
a
prepossession
is
a
choice
advantage
.
Quo
semel
est
imbuta
recens
servabit
odorem
Testa
di●
.
Train
up
a
Child
in
the
way
he
should
go
,
and
when
he
is
old
●e
will
not
depart
from
it
▪
Prov.
22.
6.
(
4.
)
Here
you
have
,
or
may
have
the
help
and
assistance
of
Christians
to
direct
your
way
,
resolve
your
doubts
,
support
your
burthens
,
and
help
you
through
those
difficulties
that
attend
the
new
birth
.
Alas
!
if
a
poor
soul
had
any
beginnings
or
saint
workings
and
stirrings
after
Christ
and
true
Religion
in
many
other
Countreys
,
the
hand
of
every
man
would
presently
be
against
him
,
and
none
would
be
found
to
relieve
,
assist
or
encourage
,
as
you
may
see
in
that
Example
of
Gal●acJus
;
the
nearest
relations
would
,
in
that
case
,
prove
the
greatest
Enemies
,
the
Countrey
would
quickly
hoot
at
him
as
a
Monster
,
and
cry
Away
with
the
Heretick
to
the
Prison
or
Stake
.
Whether
these
eventually
prove
blessings
to
your
souls
or
no
,
certain
I
am
,
that
in
themselves
they
are
singular
mercies
,
and
helps
to
salvation
,
that
are
denyed
to
Millions
besides
you
.
So
that
if
Plato
when
he
was
near
his
death
,
could
bless
God
for
three
things
,
viz.
That
he
was
a
Man
,
and
not
a
Beast
:
that
he
was
born
in
Greece
;
and
brought
up
in
the
time
of
Socrates
:
much
more
cause
have
you
to
admire
Providence
,
that
you
are
Men
,
and
not
Beasts
;
that
you
were
born
in
England
,
and
brought
up
in
Gospel
dayes
here
.
This
is
a
Land
the
Lord
hath
EspJed
for
you
,
as
the
expression
is
,
Ezek.
20.
6.
and
concerning
it
,
you
have
abundant
cause
to
say
,
as
in
another
case
the
Psalmist
doth
,
Psal.
16.
6.
The
lines
are
fallen
to
me
in
pleasant
places
,
and
I
have
a
goodly
heritage
.
The
Third
Performance
of
Providence
.
III.
THe
next
observable
Performance
of
Providence
,
which
must
be
heedfully
adverted
and
weighed
,
is
the
designatJon
of
the
stock
and
family
out
of
which
we
should
spring
and
rise
.
And
truly
,
this
is
of
special
consideration
,
both
as
to
our
temporal
and
eternal
good
;
for
whether
the
families
in
which
we
grew
up
,
were
great
or
small
in
Israel
;
whether
our
parents
were
of
the
higher
or
lower
Class
,
and
rank
among
men
:
yet
if
they
were
such
as
feared
God
and
wrought
righteousness
,
if
they
took
any
care
to
educate
you
religiously
,
and
trained
you
up
in
the
nurture
and
admonitJon
of
the
Lord
,
you
are
bound
to
reckon
it
among
your
chief
mercies
,
that
you
sprung
from
the
loins
of
such
parents
:
for
from
this
Spring
a
double
stream
of
mercy
rises
to
you
.
(
1.
)
Temporal
and
external
mercies
to
your
outward
man
.
You
cannot
but
know
,
that
as
Godliness
entails
a
blessing
,
so
wickedness
and
unrighteousness
a
curse
upon
posterity
.
An
instance
of
the
former
you
have
in
Gen.
17.
18
,
20.
On
the
contrary
,
you
have
the
threatning
,
Zech.
5.
4.
and
both
together
,
Prov.
3.
33.
The
Curse
of
the
Lord
is
in
the
house
of
the
wicked
,
but
he
Blesseth
the
habitatJon
of
the
just
.
True
it
is
,
that
both
these
imply
the
Childrens
treading
in
the
steps
of
their
Parents
,
according
to
Ezek.
18.
but
how
frequently
is
it
seen
,
that
wicked
men
breed
their
children
vainly
and
wickedly
;
so
that
as
it
's
said
of
Abijam
,
1
Kings
15.
3.
He
walked
in
all
the
sins
of
his
father
,
which
he
had
done
before
him
;
and
so
the
curse
is
entail'd
from
generation
to
generation
.
To
escape
this
Curse
,
is
a
choice
Providence
.
(
2.
)
But
especially
take
notice
,
what
a
stream
of
spiritual
blessings
and
mercies
,
●lows
from
this
Providence
to
the
Inner
man
.
O
it
's
no
common
mercy
,
to
descend
from
pious
Parents
▪
Some
of
us
do
not
only
owe
our
natural
life
to
them
,
as
Instruments
of
our
Beings
,
but
our
Spiritual
and
Eternal
life
also
.
It
was
no
small
mercy
to
Timothy
,
to
be
descended
from
such
Progenitors
,
2
T●m.
1.
5.
nor
to
.
Augustine
,
that
he
had
such
a
Mother
as
Monica
,
who
planted
in
his
mind
the
precepts
of
life
with
her
Words
,
watered
them
with
her
Tears
,
and
nourished
them
with
her
Example
.
We
will
a
little
more
particularly
inspect
this
mercy
,
and
in
so
doing
,
we
shall
find
manifold
mercies
contained
in
it
.
(
1.
)
What
a
Mercy
was
it
to
us
,
to
have
Parents
that
prayed
for
us
before
they
had
us
,
as
well
as
in
our
Infancy
,
when
we
could
not
pray
for
our selves
?
Thus
did
Abraham
,
Gen.
15.
2.
and
Hannah
,
1
Sam.
1.
10
,
11.
and
some
here
likely
are
the
fruits
and
returns
of
their
Parents
Prayers
.
This
was
that
holy
course
they
continued
all
their
dayes
for
you
,
carrying
all
your
concerns
,
especially
your
Eternal
ones
before
the
Lord
with
their
own
;
and
pouring
out
their
souls
to
God
so
affectionately
for
you
,
when
their
eye-strings
and
heart-strings
were
breaking
.
Oh
put
a
value
upon
such
Mercies
;
for
they
are
precious
.
It
's
a
greater
Mercy
,
to
descend
from
praying
Parents
,
than
from
the
loyns
of
Nobles
.
See
Job's
pious
practice
,
Job
1.
5.
(
2.
)
What
a
special
Mercy
was
it
to
us
,
to
have
the
excrescencies
of
corruption
nipt
in
the
bud
by
their
pious
and
careful
discipline
?
We
now
understand
,
what
a
critical
and
dangerous
season
Youth
is
,
the
wonderful
proclivity
of
that
Age
to
every
thing
that
is
evil
.
Why
else
are
they
called
Youthful
lusts
?
2
Tim.
2.
22.
When
David
asketh
,
Wherewith
shall
a
young
man
cleanse
his
way
?
it's
plainly
enough
implyed
in
the
very
Question
,
that
the
way
he
takes
lieth
through
the
pollutions
of
the
world
in
his
youth
,
Psal.
119.
9.
When
you
find
a
David
praying
,
that
God
would
not
remember
the
sins
of
his
youth
,
Psal.
25.
7.
and
a
Job
bitterly
complaining
,
that
God
made
him
to
possess
the
sins
of
his
youth
,
Job
13.
26.
Sure
,
you
cannot
but
reflect
,
with
a
very
thankful
heart
,
upon
those
happy
means
,
by
which
the
corruption
of
your
nature
was
happily
prevented
,
or
restrained
in
your
Youth
.
(
3.
)
And
how
great
a
Mercy
was
it
,
that
we
had
Parents
,
who
carefully
instilled
the
good
knowledge
of
God
into
our
souls
in
our
tender
years
?
How
careful
was
Abraham
of
this
duty
?
Gen.
18.
19.
and
David
?
1
Chron.
28.
9.
We
have
some
of
us
had
Parents
,
who
might
say
to
us
,
as
the
Apostle
,
Gal.
4.
19.
My
little
Children
,
of
whom
I
travail
again
in
birth
till
Christ
be
formed
in
you
.
As
they
longed
for
us
before
they
had
us
,
and
rejoyced
in
us
when
they
had
us
;
so
they
could
not
endure
to
think
,
that
when
they
could
have
us
no
more
,
the
Devil
should
.
As
they
thought
no
pains
,
care
or
cost
too
much
for
our
bodies
to
feed
them
,
cloath
and
heal
them
;
so
did
they
think
no
prayers
,
counsels
or
tears
,
too
much
for
our
souls
,
that
they
might
be
saved
.
They
knew
a
parting
time
would
come
betwixt
them
and
us
,
and
did
strive
to
make
it
as
easie
and
comfortable
to
them
as
they
could
,
by
leaving
us
in
Christ
,
and
within
the
blessed
bond
of
his
Covenant
.
They
were
not
glad
,
that
we
had
Health
,
and
indifferent
whether
we
had
Grace
.
They
as
sensibly
felt
the
miseries
of
our
souls
as
of
our
bodies
;
and
nothing
was
more
desirable
to
them
,
than
that
they
might
say
in
the
great
day
,
Lord
,
here
am
I
,
and
the
Children
which
thou
hast
given
me
.
(
4.
)
And
was
it
not
a
special
Favour
to
us
,
to
have
Parents
that
went
before
us
as
Patterns
of
Holiness
,
and
beat
the
path
to
Heaven
for
us
by
their
Examples
?
Who
could
say
to
us
,
as
Phil.
4.
9.
What
things
ye
have
heard
and
seen
in
me
,
that
do
;
and
as
1
Cor.
11.
1.
Be
ye
followers
of
us
,
as
we
are
of
Christ
.
The
Parents
life
is
the
Childs
copy
.
O
't
is
no
common
mercy
,
to
have
a
fair
copy
set
before
us
,
especially
in
the
moulding
age
:
we
saw
what
they
did
,
as
well
as
heard
what
they
said
.
It
was
Abraham's
commendation
,
that
he
commanded
his
Children
,
and
his
houshold
after
him
,
to
keep
the
way
of
the
Lord
.
And
such
mercies
some
of
us
have
had
also
.
Ah
my
friends
,
let
me
beg
you
,
that
you
will
set
special
remarques
upon
this
Providence
,
which
so
graciously
wrought
for
you
:
and
that
your
hearts
may
be
more
throughly
warmed
in
the
sense
of
it
,
compare
your
condition
with
others
,
and
seriously
bethink
your selves
,
(
1.
)
How
many
Children
there
be
among
us
,
that
are
drawn
headlong
to
Hell
by
their
cruel
and
ungodly
Parents
,
who
teach
them
to
curse
and
swear
assoon
as
they
can
speak
?
Many
families
there
are
,
wherein
little
other
language
is
heard
,
but
what
is
the
Dialect
of
Hell
.
These
,
like
the
old
logs
and
small
spray
,
are
preparing
for
the
fire
of
Hell
,
where
they
must
burn
together
.
Of
such
Children
,
that
Scripture
,
Psal.
49.
19.
will
one
day
be
verified
,
except
they
repent
,
They
shall
go
to
the
generatJon
of
their
fathers
,
where
they
shall
not
see
light
.
(
2.
)
And
how
many
families
are
there
,
though
not
so
prophane
,
who
yet
breed
up
their
Children
vainly
and
sensually
,
as
Job
21.
11
,
&c.
take
no
care
what
becomes
of
their
souls
,
so
they
can
but
provide
for
their
bodies
?
If
they
can
but
teach
them
to
carry
their
bodies
,
no
matter
if
the
Devil
act
their
souls
:
If
they
can
but
leave
them
Lands
or
Moneys
,
they
think
they
have
very
fully
discharged
their
duties
.
O
what
will
the
language
be
,
wherewith
such
Parents
and
Children
shall
great
each
other
at
the
Judgement
Seat
,
and
in
Hell
for
ever
?
(
3.
)
And
how
many
be
there
,
who
are
more
sober
,
and
yet
hate
the
least
appearances
of
Godliness
in
their
Children
?
who
instead
of
cherishing
,
do
all
that
they
can
to
break
bruised
reeds
,
and
quench
smoaking
●lax
,
to
stifle
and
strangle
the
first
appearances
,
and
offers
they
make
towards
Christ
?
Who
had
rather
accompany
them
to
their
graves
,
than
to
Christ
,
doing
all
that
in
them
lyes
,
Herod
like
,
to
kill
Christ
in
the
Cradle
?
Ah
Sirs
,
ye
little
know
,
what
a
mercy
ye
do
or
have
enjoyed
in
Godly
Parents
,
and
what
a
good
Lot
Providence
cast
for
you
in
this
Concernment
of
your
bodies
and
souls
.
If
any
shall
say
,
This
was
not
their
case
,
they
had
little
help
Heaven-ward
from
their
Parents
:
To
such
I
shall
only
reply
three
things
.
(
1.
)
If
you
had
little
furtherance
,
(
2.
)
Admire
the
Grace
of
God
,
in
plucking
you
out
by
a
wonderful
distinguishing
hand
of
mercy
from
among
them
,
and
keeping
alive
the
languishing
sparks
of
Grace
amidst
the
floods
of
opposition
.
(
3.
)
And
learn
from
hence
,
if
God
give
you
a
posterity
of
your
own
,
to
be
so
much
the
more
strict
and
careful
of
relational
duties
,
by
how
much
you
have
sensibly
felt
the
want
of
it
in
your selves
▪
But
seeing
such
a
train
of
blessings
,
both
as
to
this
life
,
and
that
to
come
,
follow
upon
an
holy
education
of
Children
;
I
will
not
dismiss
the
Point
,
till
I
have
discharged
my
duty
,
in
exhorting
Parents
and
Children
to
their
duties
.
And
first
for
you
that
are
Parents
,
or
to
whom
the
Education
of
Children
is
committed
,
I
beseech
you
mind
,
how
concerning
a
duty
lies
on
you
:
and
that
I
may
effectually
press
it
,
consider
,
(
1.
)
How
near
the
Relation
is
betwixt
you
and
your
Children
,
and
therefore
how
much
you
are
concerned
in
their
happiness
or
misery
.
Consider
but
the
Scripture
account
of
the
dearness
of
such
Relations
,
expressed
(
1.
)
By
longings
for
them
,
as
Gen.
15.
2.
Gen.
30.
1.
and
(
2.
)
By
our
joy
when
we
have
them
,
as
Christ
expresses
it
,
John
.
16.
21.
(
3.
)
The
high
value
set
on
them
,
Gen.
42.
38.
(
4.
)
The
sympathie
with
them
in
all
their
troubles
,
Mark
9.
22.
and
(
5.
)
By
our
sorrow
at
parting
,
Gen.
37.
35.
Now
shall
all
this
be
to
no
purpose
?
For
to
what
purpose
do
we
desire
them
before
we
have
them
,
rejoice
in
them
when
we
have
them
,
value
them
so
highly
,
sympathize
with
them
so
tenderly
,
grieve
for
their
death
so
excessively
;
if
in
the
mean
time
no
care
be
taken
what
shall
become
of
them
to
Eternity
?
(
2.
)
How
God
hath
charged
you
with
their
souls
,
as
well
as
bodies
:
and
this
appears
by
two
sorts
of
Precepts
.
(
1.
)
Precepts
directly
laid
upon
you
,
Deut.
6.
6
,
7.
and
Eph.
6.
4.
(
2.
)
By
Precepts
laid
on
them
to
obey
you
,
Eph.
6.
1.
which
plainly
implies
your
duty
,
as
well
as
expresses
theirs
.
(
3.
)
What
shall
comfort
you
at
the
parting
time
,
if
they
dye
through
your
neglect
in
a
Christless
condition
?
Oh
this
is
the
cutting
consideration
,
My
Child
is
in
Hell
,
and
I
did
nothing
to
prevent
it
;
I
helped
him
thither
.
Duty
discharged
,
is
the
only
root
of
comfort
in
that
day
.
(
4.
)
If
you
neglect
to
instruct
them
in
the
way
of
Holiness
,
will
the
Devil
neglect
to
instruct
them
in
the
way
of
Wickedness
?
No
,
no
,
if
you
will
not
teach
them
to
pray
,
he
will
to
curse
,
swear
and
lye
.
If
ground
be
uncultivated
,
weeds
will
spring
.
(
5.
)
If
the
season
of
their
youth
be
neglected
,
how
little
probability
is
there
of
any
good
fruit
afterwards
?
that
is
the
Moulding
age
,
Prov.
22.
6.
How
few
are
converted
in
old
age
?
A
twig
is
brought
to
any
form
,
but
grown
limbs
will
not
bow
.
(
6.
)
You
are
instrumental
causes
of
all
their
spiritual
misery
;
and
that
(
1.
)
By
generatJon
,
(
2.
)
ImitatJon
,
they
lye
spiritually
dead
of
the
Plague
which
you
brought
home
among
them
,
Psal.
51.
5.
Behold
,
I
was
shapen
in
iniquity
,
and
in
sin
did
my
Mother
conceive
(
or
warm
)
me
.
(
7.
)
There
's
none
in
the
World
so
likely
as
you
▪
to
be
Instruments
of
their
Eternal
good
.
You
have
peculiar
advantages
that
none
other
hath
;
as
(
1.
)
The
interest
you
have
in
their
affections
.
(
2.
)
Your
opportunities
to
instil
the
knowledge
of
Christ
into
them
,
being
daily
with
them
,
Deut.
6.
7.
(
3.
)
Your
knowledge
of
their
tempers
:
if
therefore
you
neglect
,
who
shall
help
them
?
(
8.
)
The
consideration
of
the
great
day
,
sho●●d
move
your
bowels
of
pity
for
them
.
O
remember
that
Text
,
Rev.
20.
12
,
&c.
I
saw
the
dead
small
and
great
stand
before
God
.
What
a
sad
thing
will
it
be
,
to
see
your
dear
Children
at
Christs
left
hand
?
O
friends
,
do
your
utmost
to
prevent
this
misery
.
Knowing
the
terrors
of
the
Lord
,
we
perswade
men
.
And
you
Children
,
especially
you
that
sprang
from
religious
Parents
,
I
beseech
you
,
obey
their
Counsels
;
and
tread
in
the
steps
of
their
pious
Examples
.
To
press
this
,
I
offer
these
Consideration
.
(
1.
)
Your
disobedience
to
them
,
is
a
resisting
of
Gods
Authority
,
Ephes.
6.
1.
Children
,
obey
your
Parents
in
the
Lord
:
there
's
the
Command
:
your
rebellion
therefore
runs
higher
than
you
think
.
It
is
not
Man
,
but
God
that
you
disobey
;
and
for
your
disobedience
God
will
punish
you
.
It
may
be
,
their
tenderness
will
not
suffer
them
,
or
you
are
grown
beyond
their
correction
:
all
they
can
do
,
is
to
complain
to
God
;
and
if
so
,
he
will
handle
you
more
severely
than
they
could
do
.
(
2.
)
Your
Sin
is
greater
than
the
Sin
of
young
Heathens
and
Infidels
;
and
so
will
your
Account
be
also
.
O
better
(
if
a
wicked
Child
)
that
thou
hadst
been
the
off-spring
of
Salvage
IndJans
,
nay
,
of
Beasts
,
than
of
such
Parents
.
So
many
Counsels
disobeyed
,
Hopes
and
Prayers
frustrated
,
will
turn
to
sad
aggravations
.
(
3.
)
It
's
usual
with
God
,
to
retaliate
mens
disobedience
to
their
Parents
in
kind
:
Commonly
our
own
Children
shall
pay
us
home
for
it
.
I
have
read
in
a
grave
Author
,
of
a
wicked
Wretch
that
drag'd
his
Father
along
the
house
:
the
Father
begg'd
him
,
not
to
draw
him
beyond
such
a
place
:
for
,
said
he
,
I
drag'd
my
Father
no
farther
.
O
the
sad
,
but
just
retributions
of
God!
And
for
you
,
in
whose
hearts
Grace
hath
been
planted
by
the
blessing
of
Education
,
I
beseech
you
to
admire
Gods
goodness
to
you
in
this
Providence
.
Oh
what
an
happy
Lot
hath
God
cast
for
you
!
How
few
Children
are
partakers
of
your
mercies
?
See
that
you
honour
such
Parents
;
the
tie
is
double
upon
you
so
to
do
.
Be
you
the
joy
of
their
hearts
,
and
comfort
of
their
lives
,
if
living
:
if
not
,
yet
still
remember
the
mercy
while
you
live
,
and
tread
in
their
pious
path
;
that
you
and
they
may
both
rejoice
together
in
the
great
day
,
and
bless
God
for
each
other
to
all
Eternity
.
The
Fourth
Performance
of
Providence
.
IV.
THe
next
remarkable
performance
of
Providence
for
the
People
of
God
in
which
I
will
instance
,
In
nothing
doth
Providence
shine
forth
more
gloriously
in
this
world
,
than
it
doth
in
this
performance
for
the
people
of
God
.
How
curiously
soever
its
hand
had
moulded
your
bodies
,
how
tenderly
soever
it
had
preserved
them
,
and
how
bountifully
soever
it
had
provided
for
them
;
if
it
had
hot
also
ordered
some
means
or
other
for
your
Conversion
,
all
the
former
favours
and
benefits
it
had
done
for
you
,
had
signified
little
.
This
,
O
this
is
the
most
excellent
benefit
you
ever
received
from
its
hand
.
You
are
more
beholden
to
it
for
this
,
than
for
all
your
other
mercies
.
And
in
opening
this
performance
of
Providence
,
I
cannot
but
think
your
hearts
must
be
deeply
affected
.
This
is
a
subject
which
every
gracious
heart
loves
to
steep
its
thoughts
in
.
It
's
certainly
the
sweetest
History
that
ever
they
repeated
:
they
love
to
think
and
talk
of
it
.
The
Places
where
,
and
Instruments
by
whom
this
work
was
wrought
,
are
exceedingly
endeared
to
them
for
the
works
sake
:
yea
,
endeared
to
that
degree
,
that
for
many
years
after
their
hearts
have
melted
,
when
they
have
but
passed
occasionally
by
those
places
,
or
but
seen
the
faces
of
those
persons
,
that
were
used
as
Instruments
in
the
hand
of
Providence
for
their
good
.
As
no
doubt
,
but
*
Jacob's
Beth-el
was
ever
after
that
night
sweet
to
his
thoughts
:
But
lest
any
poor
soul
should
be
discouraged
under
the
display
of
this
Providence
,
because
he
cannot
remember
the
Time
,
Place
,
Instruments
and
Manner
wherein
,
and
by
which
Conversion-work
was
wrought
;
I
will
therefore
premise
this
necessary
distinction
,
to
prevent
injury
to
some
,
whilst
I
design
benefit
to
others
.
Conversion
,
as
to
the
subjects
of
it
,
may
be
considered
two
wayes
;
either
as
it
is
more
sensibly
wrought
in
persons
of
riper
years
,
who
in
their
youthful
daies
were
more
prophane
and
vile
;
or
upon
persons
in
their
tender
years
,
into
whose
hearts
Grace
was
more
insensibly
,
and
undiscernably
instilled
by
Gods
blessing
upon
pious
Education
.
In
the
former
sort
,
the
distinct
acts
of
the
Spirit
,
as
illuminating
,
convincing
,
humbling
,
drawing
them
to
Christ
,
and
sealing
them
are
more
evident
and
discernable
:
in
the
latter
,
more
obscure
and
confused
;
they
can
remember
,
that
God
gave
them
an
Esteem
and
liking
of
godly
persons
,
Care
of
duty
,
and
Conscience
of
sin
;
but
as
to
the
Time
,
Place
,
Instruments
and
Manner
of
the
work
,
they
can
give
but
a
slender
account
of
them
:
however
,
if
the
work
be
savingly
wrought
in
them
,
there
is
no
reason
they
should
be
troubled
,
because
the
Circumstances
of
it
are
not
so
evident
to
them
,
as
they
are
to
others
.
Let
the
substance
and
reality
of
the
work
appear
,
and
there
is
no
reason
to
afflict
your selves
,
because
of
the
inevidence
of
such
Circumstances
.
But
yet
where
the
Circumstances
as
well
as
Substance
are
clear
to
a
man
:
when
we
can
call
to
remembrance
,
the
Time
when
,
the
Place
where
,
the
Instrument
by
whom
that
work
was
wrought
,
it
must
needs
be
exceeding
sweet
:
and
they
cannot
but
yield
a
fresh
delight
to
the
soul
every
time
they
are
reflected
upon
.
There
are
many
of
the
following
occasions
,
which
it
may
be
,
we
took
for
straglers
when
they
first
befell
us
:
but
they
proved
scouts
sent
out
from
the
main
body
of
Providence
,
which
they
make
way
for
.
Now
there
be
divers
things
in
those
Providences
,
that
are
versant
about
this
work
,
which
are
exceeding
sweet
,
and
taking
;
as
namely
,
The
wonderful
strangeness
and
unaccountableness
of
this
work
of
Providence
,
in
casting
us
into
the
way
,
and
ordering
the
occasions
,
yea
,
the
minu●est
Circumstances
about
this
work
.
Thus
you
find
in
Acts
8.
26
,
27
,
28
,
29
,
30
,
&c.
the
Eunuch
at
that
very
instant
when
he
was
reading
the
Prophet
Esay
,
hath
an
Interpreter
,
one
among
a
thousand
,
that
joins
his
CharJot
,
just
as
his
mind
was
by
a
fit
occasion
prepared
to
receive
the
first
light
of
the
knowledge
of
Christ
.
And
how
strange
was
that
Change
(
how
far
soever
it
went
)
upon
Naaman
the
SyrJan
?
recorded
2
Kings
5.
1
,
2
,
3
,
4.
That
the
SyrJans
in
their
incursion
should
bring
away
this
girl
,
(
likely
her
beauty
was
the
inducement
,
)
and
shel
must
be
presented
to
Naaman's
Wife
,
and
relate
to
her
the
power
of
God
that
accompanied
the
Prophet
;
though
you
find
in
that
particular
case
there
had
never
been
an
instance
given
before
,
Luke
4.
27.
Doubtless
,
the
whole
of
this
affair
was
guided
by
the
signal
direction
of
Providence
.
So
for
the
Conversion
of
the
Samaritans
,
it's
observed
John
4.
4.
Christ
must
needs
go
that
way
,
(
i.
e.
)
it
lay
just
in
the
road
betwixt
Judea
and
Galilee
,
and
at
the
sixth
hour
(
i.
e.
)
high
noon
,
he
rests
himself
upon
Jacob's
Well
,
still
seeming
to
have
no
other
design
,
but
his
own
refreshment
,
by
sitting
and
drinking
there
:
but
O
what
a
train
of
blessed
Providences
follow
this
,
which
seemed
but
an
accidental
thing
!
first
the
Woman
of
SamarJa
,
and
then
many
more
in
that
City
are
brought
to
believe
in
Christ
,
as
you
find
Verse
29.
and
41.
It
is
noted
by
MelchJor
Adams
in
the
Life
of
JunJus
,
Jesus
Christ
.
Thus
,
as
the
Woman
of
Tekoa
told
David
,
doth
God
devise
means
to
bring
back
his
banished
.
Lavater
tells
us
,
that
many
Spanish
Souldiers
,
going
into
the
Wars
of
Germany
,
were
there
converted
to
Christ
,
by
falling
into
the
CitJes
and
Towns
,
where
godly
Ministers
and
Christians
were
.
Mr.
Robert
Bolton
,
though
an
excellent
Scholar
,
yet
in
his
younger
years
he
was
a
very
irreligious
person
,
and
a
jeerer
of
holy
men
;
but
being
cast
into
the
company
of
godly
Mr.
Peacock
,
was
by
him
brought
to
repentance
,
and
proved
a
famous
Instrument
in
the
Church
of
Christ
.
A
scrap
of
paper
accidentally
coming
to
view
,
hath
been
used
as
an
occasion
of
Conversion
.
This
was
the
case
of
a
Minister
of
Wales
,
The
Marriage
of
a
Godly
Man
into
a
Carnal
Family
,
hath
been
ordered
by
Providence
,
for
the
Conversion
and
Salvation
of
many
therein
.
Thus
we
read
,
in
the
Life
of
that
renowned
English
Worthy
Mr.
John
Bruen
,
that
in
his
second
Match
it
was
agreed
,
that
he
should
have
one
years
diet
in
his
Mother-in-laws
house
:
During
his
abode
there
that
year
(
saith
Mr.
Clark
)
the
Lord
was
pleased
by
his
means
,
graciously
to
work
upon
her
Soul
,
as
also
upon
his
Wises
Sister
,
and
half
Sister
,
their
Brothers
Mr.
WillJam
and
Thomas
Fox
,
with
one
or
two
of
the
servants
in
that
Family
.
The
reading
of
a
good
Book
,
hath
been
the
means
of
bringing
others
to
Christ
.
And
thus
we
find
many
of
the
German
Divines
converted
,
by
reading
Luther's
Books
:
yea
,
and
what
is
more
strange
,
German
Apostates
:
but
whilst
he
read
the
Protestant
Books
,
out
of
no
other
design
,
but
to
con●ute
them
;
whilst
he
is
weighing
the
Arguments
,
is
himself
convinced
and
brought
to
Christ
.
He
finding
himself
thus
overcome
by
the
truth
,
imparts
his
conviction
to
his
Brother
,
a
zealous
Papist
also
:
this
Brother
deplores
the
misery
of
his
case
,
and
seeks
to
reclaim
him
;
but
VergerJus
entreating
him
to
weigh
well
the
Protestant
Arguments
,
he
also
yields
;
and
so
both
immediately
betook
themselves
to
preach
Justification
by
the
free
grace
of
God
through
the
blood
of
Christ
.
Yea
,
not
only
the
reading
of
a
Book
,
or
hearing
a
Minister
,
but
(
which
is
most
remarkable
)
the
very
mistake
or
forgetfulness
of
a
Minister
,
The
Lord
is
not
slack
concerning
his
Promise
,
&c.
And
though
he
had
nothing
prepar'd
;
yet
the
Lord
helpt
him
to
speak
both
methodically
and
pertinently
from
it
:
by
which
discourse
,
a
gracious
change
was
wrought
upon
one
in
the
Congregation
,
who
hath
since
given
good
Evidence
of
a
sound
Conversion
,
and
acknowledged
this
Sermon
to
be
the
first
and
only
Means
thereof
.
The
accompanying
of
others
in
a
Neighbourly
civil
Visit
,
hath
been
over-rul'd
to
the
same
end
.
Thus
many
of
the
Jews
accompanied
Mary
unto
Bethany
,
(
designing
only
to
manifest
their
civil
respect
)
but
there
they
met
Christ
,
saw
the
things
which
he
did
,
and
believed
on
him
,
John
11.
45.
Mr.
Firmin
in
his
Real
ChristJan
,
pag.
97
,
98.
tells
us
of
one
,
who
had
liv'd
many
years
in
a
Town
where
Christ
had
been
as
clearly
,
and
as
long
preached
,
as
in
any
Town
in
England
.
This
man
when
he
was
about
seventy
six
years
of
age
,
went
to
visit
a
sick
Neighbour
.
A
Christian
friend
of
mine
(
saith
mine
Author
)
came
to
see
him
also
,
and
finding
this
old
man
there
;
whom
he
judged
,
to
be
one
that
lived
upon
his
own
stock
:
Civility
,
good
Works
,
&c.
he
purposely
fell
into
that
discourse
,
to
shew
how
many
persons
lived
upon
their
duties
,
but
never
came
to
Christ
.
The
old
man
sitting
by
the
bed
side
,
heard
him
;
and
God
was
pleased
to
convince
him
,
that
he
was
such
a
person
,
who
had
lived
upon
himself
without
Christ
to
that
day
;
and
would
say
afterwards
,
had
I
dyed
before
threescore
and
sixteen
,
I
had
perisht
,
for
I
knew
not
Christ
.
The
committing
of
a
godly
man
to
Prison
,
hath
been
the
method
of
Providence
,
to
save
the
soul
of
a
poor
Keeper
.
So
Paul
,
Acts
16.
27.
was
made
a
Prisoner
,
to
make
his
Keeper
a
spiritual
Free-man
.
The
like
success
had
Dr.
Barnes
in
Queen
Mary's
dayes
,
who
afterwards
celebrated
the
Lords
Supper
in
Prison
with
his
converted
Keeper
.
The
scattering
of
Ministers
and
ChristJans
by
Persecution
from
CitJes
and
Towns
,
into
the
ignorant
and
barbarous
parts
of
the
Countrey
,
hath
been
the
way
of
Providence
,
to
find
out
,
and
bring
home
some
lost
sheep
that
were
found
there
,
to
Jesus
Christ
,
Acts
8.
1.
4.
The
like
signal
Event
hath
since
followed
upon
the
like
scattering
of
godly
Ministers
,
whereof
are
many
〈…〉
A.
Servant
running
away
from
his
Master
,
(
likely
upon
no
other
design
but
to
live
an
idle
life
)
yet
falling
into
such
places
and
companies
,
as
Providence
ordered
(
in
a
design
to
him
unknown
)
hath
thereby
been
brought
to
be
the
servant
of
Christ
.
This
was
the
very
case
of
Onesimus
,
who
run
away
from
his
Master
Philemon
,
to
Rome
;
where
by
a
strange
Providence
(
possibly
a
meer
curiosity
to
see
the
Prisoners
)
he
there
falls
into
Paul's
hands
,
who
begat
him
to
Christ
in
his
bonds
,
Philemon
,
Ver.
10
,
11
,
12
,
13
,
14
,
15
,
16.
Going
to
hear
a
Sermon
in
jest
,
hath
proved
some
mens
Conversion
in
earnest
.
The
above
named
Mr.
Firmin
in
the
fore-cited
Book
,
tells
us
of
anotorious
drunkard
,
whom
the
drunkards
called
Father
,
that
one
day
would
needs
go
to
hear
what
Wilson
said
,
out
of
no
other
design
it
seems
,
but
to
scoff
at
that
holy
man
:
but
in
the
prayer
before
Sermon
,
his
heart
began
to
thaw
;
and
when
he
read
his
Text
,
which
was
John
5.
14.
Sin
no
more
,
lest
a
worse
thing
come
unto
thee
:
he
could
not
contain
;
and
in
that
Sermon
the
Lord
changed
his
heart
,
though
so
bitter
an
Enemy
,
that
the
Minister
on
Lecture-dayes
was
afraid
to
go
to
Church
before
his
shopdoor
.
Lo
,
these
are
parts
of
his
wayes
,
but
how
small
a
portJon
is
known
of
him
?
The
dropping
of
some
grave
and
weighty
word
accidentally
in
the
presence
of
vain
carnal
persons
,
the
death
of
an
Husband
,
Wife
or
Child
,
a
fit
of
sickness
,
with
a
thousand
other
such
like
occasions
,
have
been
thus
improved
by
Providence
to
the
Conversion
of
souls
.
And
no
less
remarkable
and
wonderful
are
the
designs
of
Providence
in
ordering
the
removes
,
and
governing
the
motJons
of
Ministers
,
from
place
to
place
in
order
unto
the
Conversion
of
souls
.
Thus
oftentimes
it
carries
them
to
places
where
they
intended
not
to
go
;
God
having
(
unknown
to
them
)
some
Elect
Vessels
there
,
who
must
be
Called
by
the
Gospel
.
Thus
Paul
and
Timothy
(
a
sweet
and
lovely
pair
)
when
they
were
travelling
through
PhrygJa
and
GalatJa
,
were
forbid
to
preach
the
Word
in
AsJa
,
to
which
probably
their
minds
inclined
,
Acts
16.
6.
and
when
they
essayed
to
go
into
BythinJa
,
the
Spirit
suffered
them
not
,
Ver.
7.
But
a
man
of
MacedonJa
(
i.
e.
an
Angel
in
the
shape
or
habit
of
a
man
of
that
Countrey
)
appeared
to
Paul
in
a
Vision
,
and
prayed
him
,
saying
,
Come
over
into
Macedonia
,
and
help
us
,
Ver.
9.
and
there
did
God
open
the
heart
of
LydJa
.
I
knew
a
pious
Minister
now
with
God
,
who
falling
in
his
Study
upon
a
very
rouzing
subject
,
intended
for
his
own
Congregation
,
was
strongly
moved
,
when
he
had
finished
it
,
to
go
to
a
rude
,
vile
,
prophane
people
,
about
five
miles
off
,
and
first
preach
it
to
them
;
after
many
wrestlings
with
himself
,
not
being
willing
to
quench
any
motion
that
might
be
supposed
to
come
from
the
Spirit
of
God
,
he
obeyed
,
and
went
to
this
people
,
who
had
then
no
Minister
of
their
own
,
and
few
durst
come
among
them
.
And
there
did
the
Lord
,
beyond
all
expectation
,
open
a
door
,
and
several
prophane
ones
received
Christ
in
that
place
,
and
engaged
this
Minister
to
a
Weekly
Lecture
among
them
,
in
which
many
souls
were
won
to
〈◊〉
.
〈◊〉
●ame
holy
Man
,
at
another
time
,
being
〈◊〉
a
Journey
,
passed
by
a
company
of
vain
persons
,
who
were
wrestling
upon
a
Green
near
the
road
:
and
just
as
he
came
against
the
place
,
one
of
them
had
thrown
his
Antagonist
,
and
stood
triumphing
in
his
strength
and
activity
.
This
good
man
rode
up
to
them
,
and
turning
his
speech
to
this
person
;
told
him
,
Friend
,
I
see
you
are
a
strong
man
;
but
yet
let
not
the
strong
man
glory
in
his
strength
:
You
must
know
,
that
you
are
not
to
wrestle
with
flesh
and
blood
,
but
with
principalities
and
powers
,
and
spiritual
wickednes●es
:
how
sad
will
it
be
,
that
Satan
should
at
last
trip
up
the
heels
of
your
hope
,
and
give
you
an
eternal
overthrow
?
And
after
about
a
quarter
of
an
hours
serious
discourse
upon
this
subject
,
he
left
them
,
and
went
on
his
Journey
;
but
this
discourse
made
such
an
imperssion
,
that
the
person
had
no
rest
,
till
he
opened
his
trouble
to
a
godly
Minister
,
who
wisely
following
the
work
upon
his
soul
,
saw
at
last
the
blessed
issue
thereof
in
the
gracious
change
of
the
person
,
whereof
he
afterwards
gave
the
Minister
a
joyful
account
.
O
how
unsearchable
are
the
Methods
of
Providence
in
this
matter
?
Nay
,
what
is
yet
more
wonderful
,
the
Providence
of
God
hath
sometimes
ordered
the
very
malice
of
Satan
,
and
wickedness
of
men
,
as
an
occasion
of
Eternal
good
to
their
souls
.
A
very
memorable
Example
whereof
▪
I
shall
here
give
the
Reader
,
faithfully
re●●●ing
what
not
many
years
past
●ell
out
in
my
own
observation
in
this
place
,
to
the
astonishment
of
many
spectators
.
In
the
year
1673.
there
came
into
this
Port
a
Ship
of
Poole
,
in
her
return
from
Virgini●
;
in
which
Ship
was
one
of
that
place
,
a
lusty
young
man
of
twenty
three
years
of
age
,
who
was
Chirurgeon
in
the
Ship
.
This
person
in
the
voyage
fell
into
a
deep
melancholy
,
which
the
Devil
greatly
improved
to
serve
his
own
design
for
the
ruine
of
this
poor
man
;
however
,
it
pleased
the
Lord
to
restrain
him
from
any
attempts
upon
his
own
life
,
until
he
arrived
here
.
But
shortly
after
his
arrival
,
upon
the
Lords
Day
early
in
the
morning
(
being
in
bed
with
his
Brother
)
he
took
a
knife
prepared
for
that
purpose
,
and
cut
his
own
throat
,
and
withal
leapt
out
of
the
bed
,
and
though
the
wound
was
deep
and
large
,
yet
thinking
it
might
not
soon
enough
dispatch
his
wretched
life
,
desperately
thrust
it
into
his
st
.
mach
,
and
so
lay
wallowing
in
his
own
blood
,
till
his
Brother
awaking
,
made
a
cry
for
help
:
hereupon
a
PhysicJan
and
a
Chirurgeon
coming
in
,
found
the
wound
in
his
Throat
mortal
;
and
all
they
could
do
at
present
,
was
only
to
stitch
it
and
apply
a
plaister
,
with
design
,
rather
to
enable
him
to
speak
for
a
little
while
,
than
with
any
expectation
of
cure
;
for
before
that
,
he
breathed
through
the
wound
,
and
his
voice
was
inarticulate
.
In
this
condition
I
found
him
that
morning
,
and
apprehending
him
to
be
within
a
few
minutes
of
Eterity
,
I
laboured
to
work
upon
his
heart
the
sense
of
his
condition
,
telling
him
,
I
had
but
little
him
to
do
any
thing
for
him
,
and
therefore
desired
him
to
let
me
know
,
what
his
own
apprehensions
of
his
present
Condition
were
:
He
told
me
,
he
hoped
in
God
for
Eternal
Life
;
I
replyed
,
that
I
feared
his
hopes
were
ungrounded
,
for
that
the
Scripture
tells
us
,
No
Murderer
hath
eternal
life
abiding
in
him
,
but
this
was
self-murther
,
the
grossest
of
all
Murthers
:
and
insisting
upon
the
aggravation
and
heinousness
of
the
fact
,
I
perceived
his
vain
confidence
began
to
fall
,
and
some
meltings
of
heart
appeared
in
him
.
He
then
began
to
lament
with
many
tears
his
sin
and
misery
,
and
asked
me
,
if
there
might
yet
be
hope
for
one
that
had
destroyed
himself
,
and
shed
his
own
blood
.
I
replyed
,
the
sin
indeed
is
great
,
but
not
unpardonable
;
and
if
the
Lord
gave
him
repentancae
unto
life
,
and
●aith
to
apply
Jesus
Christ
,
it
should
be
certainly
pardoned
to
him
:
and
finding
him
unacquainted
with
these
things
,
I
opened
to
him
the
nature
and
necessity
of
faith
and
repentance
,
which
he
greedily
suckt
in
,
and
with
great
vehemency
cryed
to
God
,
that
he
would
work
them
upon
his
soul
,
and
intreated
me
also
to
pray
with
him
and
for
him
,
that
it
might
be
so
.
I
prayed
with
him
,
and
the
Lord
thawed
his
heart
exceedingly
in
that
duty
:
loth
he
was
to
part
with
me
;
but
the
duties
of
the
day
necessitating
me
to
leave
him
,
I
briefly
summed
up
what
was
most
necessary
in
my
parting
counsel
to
him
,
and
took
my
leave
,
never
expecting
to
see
him
more
in
this
world
.
But
beyond
my
own
and
all
mens
expectation
,
he
continued
all
that
day
,
and
panted
most
ardently
after
Jesus
Christ
:
no
discourses
pleased
him
,
but
Christ
and
faith
;
and
in
this
frame
I
found
him
in
the
evening
.
He
rejoiced
greatly
to
see
me
again
,
and
entreated
me
to
continue
my
discourses
upon
these
subjects
;
and
after
all
told
me
,
Sir
,
the
Lord
hath
given
me
repentance
for
this
sin
▪
yea
,
and
for
every
other
sin
.
I
see
the
Evil
of
sin
now
,
so
as
I
never
saw
it
before
.
O
I
loath
my self
:
I
am
a
vile
creature
in
my
own
eyes
.
I
do
also
believe
;
Lord
help
my
unbelJef
.
I
am
heartily
willing
to
take
Christ
upon
his
own
terms
.
One
thing
only
troubles
me
,
I
doubt
this
bloody
sin
will
not
be
pardoned
.
Will
Jesus
Christ
(
said
he
)
apply
his
blood
to
me
,
that
have
shed
my
own
blood
?
I
told
him
,
Christ
shed
his
blood
even
for
them
that
with
wicked
hands
had
shed
the
blood
of
Christ
;
and
that
was
a
sin
of
deeper
guilt
than
his
.
Well
,
(
said
he
)
I
will
cast
my self
upon
Christ
;
let
him
do
by
me
what
he
will
.
And
so
I
parted
with
him
that
night
.
Next
morning
the
wounds
were
to
be
opened
;
and
then
,
the
opinion
of
the
Chirurgeons
was
,
he
would
immediately
expire
.
Accordingly
,
at
his
desire
,
I
came
that
morning
and
found
him
in
a
most
serious
frame
.
I
prayed
with
him
,
and
then
the
wound
in
his
stomach
was
opened
,
but
by
this
time
the
Ventricle
it self
was
swoln
out
of
the
orifice
of
the
wound
,
and
lay
like
a
livid
discoloured
Tripe
upon
his
body
,
and
was
also
cut
through
;
so
that
all
concluded
,
it
was
impossible
for
him
to
live
;
however
they
stitcht
the
wound
in
the
stomach
,
enlarged
th●
Orifice
,
and
fomented
it
,
and
wrought
it
again
into
his
body
,
and
so
stitching
up
the
skin
,
left
him
to
the
dispose
of
Providence
.
But
so
it
was
,
that
both
the
deep
wound
in
his
throat
,
and
this
in
his
stomach
healed
:
and
the
more
dangerous
wound
sin
had
made
upon
his
soul
,
was
,
I
trust
,
effectually
healed
also
.
I
spent
many
hours
with
him
in
that
sickness
;
and
after
his
return
home
,
received
this
account
from
Mr.
Samuel
Hardy
,
a
Minister
in
that
Town
.
Part
whereof
I
shall
transcribe
.
Dear
Sir
,
I
Was
much
troubled
at
the
sad
Providence
in
your
Town
;
but
did
much
rejoice
,
that
he
fell
into
such
hands
for
his
body
and
soul.
You
have
taken
much
pains
with
him
,
and
I
hope
to
good
purpose
.
I
think
,
if
ever
a
great
and
through
work
were
done
such
a
way
,
it
is
now
;
and
if
never
the
like
,
I
am
perswaded
now
it
is
.
Never
grow
weary
of
such
good
works
.
One
such
Instance
is
(
methinks
)
enough
to
make
you
to
abound
in
the
work
of
the
Lord
all
your
dayes
,
&c.
O
how
unsearchable
are
the
wayes
of
Providence
,
in
leading
men
to
Christ
!
Let
none
be
encouraged
by
this
to
sin
,
that
grace
may
abound
.
These
are
rare
and
singular
Instances
of
the
mercy
of
God
,
and
such
as
no
presumptuous
sinner
can
expect
to
find
.
It
's
only
recited
here
,
to
the
honour
of
Providence
,
which
works
for
the
recovery
of
sinners
in
wayes
that
we
understand
not
.
O
what
a
fetch
hath
Providence
beyond
our
Understandings
!
And
as
it
orders
very
strange
occasions
to
awaken
and
rouse
souls
at
first
,
so
it
works
no
less
wonderfully
in
carrying
on
the
work
to
perfection
;
and
this
it
doth
two
wayes
.
(
1.
)
By
quickning
and
reviving
dying
convictions
and
troubles
for
sin
.
Souls
after
their
first
awakening
,
are
apt
to
lose
the
sense
and
impression
of
their
first
troubles
for
sin
;
but
Providence
is
vigilant
to
prevent
it
;
and
doth
effectually
prevent
it
sometimes
,
by
directing
the
Minister
to
some
discourse
or
passage
,
that
shall
fall
as
pat
,
as
if
the
case
of
such
a
person
had
been
studied
by
him
,
and
designedly
spoken
to
.
How
often
have
I
found
this
in
the
cases
of
many
souls
,
who
have
professed
they
have
stood
amazed
,
to
hear
the
very
thoughts
of
their
hearts
discovered
by
the
Preacher
,
who
knew
nothing
of
them
!
Sometimes
by
directing
them
to
some
proper
rousing
Scripture
,
that
suites
their
present
case
.
And
sometimes
by
suffering
them
to
fall
into
some
new
sin
,
which
shall
awaken
all
their
former
troubles
again
,
and
put
a
new
efficacy
and
activity
into
the
Conscience
.
The
world
is
full
of
Instances
in
all
these
cases
,
and
because
most
Christians
have
experience
of
these
things
in
themselves
,
it
will
be
needless
to
recite
them
here
.
Search
but
a
few
years
back
,
and
you
may
remember
,
that
according
to
this
Account
(
at
least
,
in
some
particulars
)
Providence
ordered
the
matter
with
you
.
Have
you
not
found
some
rod
or
other
prepared
by
Providence
,
to
rouze
you
out
of
your
security
?
Why
,
this
is
so
common
a
thing
with
Christians
,
that
they
many
times
presage
an
affliction
coming
from
the
frames
they
find
their
own
hearts
in
.
(
2.
)
It
gives
also
great
assistance
to
the
work
of
the
Spirit
upon
the
soul
,
by
ordering
,
supporting
,
relieving
and
cheering
means
,
to
prop
up
and
comfort
the
soul
,
when
it
is
over-burthened
,
and
ready
to
sink
in
the
deeps
of
troubles
.
I
remember
Mr.
Bolton
gives
us
one
Instance
,
which
fits
both
these
cases
,
the
reviving
of
convictJons
,
and
seasonable
supports
in
the
deeps
of
troubles
.
And
it
is
of
a
person
that
by
convictions
had
been
fetcht
off
from
his
wicked
companions
,
and
entered
into
a
reformed
course
of
life
;
but
after
this
,
through
the
inticement
of
his
old
companions
,
the
subtilty
of
Satan
,
and
corruption
of
his
own
heart
,
did
again
relapse
into
the
wayes
of
sin
.
Then
was
Providentially
brought
to
his
view
that
Scripture
,
Prov.
1.
24
,
25
,
26
,
&c.
this
renewed
his
trouble
;
yea
,
aggravated
it
to
a
greater
height
than
ever
;
insomuch
that
he
could
scarcely
think
(
as
it
seems
by
the
relation
)
his
sin
could
be
pardoned
.
But
in
this
plunge
,
that
Text
Luke
17.
4.
was
presented
to
him
,
which
sweetly
setled
him
in
a
sure
and
glorious
peace
.
Nor
can
we
here
forget
that
miraculous
work
of
Providence
,
in
a
time
of
great
extremity
,
which
was
wrought
for
that
good
Gentlewoman
Mrs.
Honeywood
,
(
and
is
somewhere
mentioned
by
the
same
Author
)
who
under
a
deep
and
sad
desertion
,
refused
and
put
off
all
comfort
,
seeming
to
despair
utterly
of
the
grace
and
mercy
of
God
.
A
worthy
Minister
being
one
day
with
her
,
and
reasoning
against
her
desperate
conclusions
,
she
took
a
Venice-glass
from
the
Table
,
and
said
,
Sir
,
I
am
as
sure
to
be
damned
,
as
this
glass
is
to
be
broken
;
and
therewith
threw
it
forcibly
to
the
ground
;
but
to
the
astonishment
of
both
▪
the
glass
remained
whole
and
sound
,
which
the
Minister
taking
up
with
admiration
,
rebuked
her
presumption
,
and
shewed
her
what
a
wonder
Providence
had
wrought
for
her
satisfaction
,
and
it
greatly
altered
the
temper
of
her
mind
.
O
how
unsearchable
are
his
wayes
!
and
his
paths
past
finding
out
!
Lo
,
these
are
part
of
his
wayes
;
but
how
small
a
portion
do
we
know
of
him
?
ANd
now
suffer
me
to
expostulate
a
little
with
thy
soul
Reader
,
hast
thou
been
duly
sensible
of
thy
obligation
to
Providence
,
for
this
inestimable
favour
?
O
what
hath
it
done
for
thee
!
there
are
divers
kinds
of
mercies
conveyed
to
men
by
the
hand
of
Providence
,
but
none
like
this
:
in
all
the
Treasury
of
its
benefits
,
none
is
found
like
this
.
Did
it
cast
thee
into
the
way
of
Conversion
,
and
order
the
means
and
occasions
of
it
for
thee
,
when
thou
little
thoughtest
of
any
such
thing
?
How
dear
and
sweet
,
should
the
remembrance
of
it
be
to
thy
soul
!
Methinks
it
should
astonish
and
melt
you
every
time
you
reflect
upon
it
.
Such
Mercies
should
never
grow
stale
,
or
look
like
common
things
to
you
:
for
do
but
seriously
consider
the
following
particulars
.
How
surprizing
the
mercy
was
,
which
it
performed
for
you
in
that
day
.
Providence
had
a
design
upon
you
,
for
your
eternal
good
,
which
you
understood
not
.
The
time
of
mercy
was
now
fully
come
;
the
Decree
was
now
ready
to
bring
forth
that
mercy
,
with
which
it
had
gone
big
from
Eternity
,
and
its
gracious
design
must
be
executed
by
the
hand
of
Providence
,
so
far
as
concerned
the
external
means
and
instruments
:
and
how
aptly
did
it
cause
all
things
to
fall
in
with
that
design
,
though
you
knew
not
the
meaning
of
it
?
Look
over
all
the
before
mentioned
Examples
,
and
you
shall
see
the
blessed
work
of
Conversion
begun
upon
those
souls
,
when
they
minded
it
no
more
,
than
Saul
did
a
Kingdom
,
that
morning
he
went
out
to
seek
his
Fathers
Asses
,
1
Sam
9.
3
,
20.
Providence
might
truly
have
said
to
you
in
that
day
,
as
Christ
said
to
Peter
,
John
13.
7.
What
I
do
thou
knowest
not
now
,
but
hereafter
thou
shalt
know
it
.
Gods
thoughts
are
not
as
our
thoughts
;
but
as
the
Heavens
are
higher
than
the
Earth
,
so
are
his
thoughts
higher
than
ours
,
and
his
wayes
than
our
wayes
.
Little
did
Zacheus
think
,
when
he
climbed
up
into
the
Sycamore-tree
,
to
see
Christ
as
he
passed
that
way
,
what
a
design
of
mercy
Christ
had
upon
him
,
who
took
thence
the
occasion
of
becoming
both
his
Guest
and
SavJour
,
Luke
19.
5
,
6
,
7
,
8.
And
as
little
did
some
of
you
think
,
what
the
aim
of
Providence
was
,
when
you
went
(
some
out
of
custom
,
others
out
of
curiosity
,
if
not
worse
ends
)
to
hear
such
a
Sermon
.
O
how
stupendious
are
the
wayes
of
God!
What
a
distinguishing
and
seasonable
mercy
was
usher'd
in
by
Providence
in
that
day
.
It
brought
you
to
the
means
of
salvation
in
a
good
hour
.
At
that
very
nick
of
time
,
when
the
Angel
troubled
the
Waters
,
you
were
brought
to
the
Pool
;
to
allude
to
that
,
John
5.
4.
Now
the
accepted
day
was
come
,
the
Spirit
was
in
the
Ordinance
,
or
Providence
that
converted
you
,
and
you
were
set
in
the
way
of
it
.
It
may
be
,
you
had
heard
many
hundred
Sermons
before
,
but
nothing
would
stick
till
now
,
because
the
hour
was
not
come
.
The
Lord
did
,
as
it
were
,
call
in
the
Word
for
such
a
man
,
such
a
woman
;
and
Providence
said
,
Lord
,
here
he
is
,
I
have
brought
him
before
thee
.
There
were
many
others
under
that
Sermon
,
that
received
no
such
mercy
.
You
your selves
had
heard
many
before
,
but
not
to
that
advantage
,
as
it
is
said
,
Luke
4.
27.
There
were
many
Lepers
in
Israel
in
the
days
of
Elizeus
,
but
to
none
of
them
was
the
Prophet
sent
,
save
unto
Naaman
the
SyrJan
.
So
there
were
many
poor
unconverted
souls
beside
you
under
the
Word
that
day
,
and
it
may
be
,
to
none
of
them
was
salvation
sent
that
day
,
but
to
you
.
O
blessed
Providence
,
that
set
you
in
the
way
of
mercy
at
that
time
!
What
a
weighty
and
important
mercy
was
Providentially
directed
to
your
souls
that
day
.
There
are
mercies
of
all
sizes
and
kinds
in
the
hands
of
Providence
to
dispense
to
the
sons
of
men
:
its
left
hand
is
full
of
blessings
,
as
well
as
its
right
.
It
hath
health
and
riches
,
honours
and
pleasures
,
as
well
as
Christ
and
Salvation
to
dispense
.
The
world
is
full
of
its
left
hand
favours
;
but
the
blessings
of
its
right
hand
are
invaluably
precious
,
and
few
there
be
that
receive
them
.
It
doth
thousands
of
kind
offices
for
men
;
but
among
them
all
,
this
is
the
chiefest
,
to
lead
and
direct
them
to
Christ
.
For
consider
,
(
1.
)
Of
all
mercies
,
this
comes
through
most
and
greatest
difficulties
,
Eph.
1.
19
,
20.
(
2.
)
This
is
a
spiritual
mercy
,
excelling
in
dignity
of
nature
all
others
,
more
than
gold
excels
the
dirt
under
your
feet
,
Rev.
3.
18.
One
such
gift
,
is
worth
thousands
of
other
mercies
.
(
3.
)
This
is
a
mercy
immediately
slowing
out
of
the
fountain
of
Gods
electing
love
,
a
mercy
never
dropt
into
any
,
but
an
Elect
Vessel
,
1
Thess.
1.
4
,
5.
(
4.
)
This
is
a
mercy
,
that
infallibly
secures
Calvation
;
for
as
we
may
argue
from
Conversion
to
Election
,
looking
back
,
so
from
Conversion
to
Salvation
,
looking
forward
,
Heb.
6.
9.
(
5.
)
Lastly
,
This
is
an
Eternal
mercy
,
that
which
will
stick
by
you
,
when
Father
,
Mother
,
Wife
,
Children
,
Estate
,
Honours
,
Health
and
Life
shall
fail
thee
,
John
4.
14.
O
therefore
set
a
special
Mark
upon
that
Providence
,
that
set
you
in
the
way
of
this
mercy
.
It
hath
performed
that
for
thee
,
which
all
the
Ministers
on
Earth
,
and
Angels
in
Heaven
could
never
have
performed
.
This
is
a
Mercy
,
that
puts
weight
and
value
into
the
smallest
Circumstance
that
relates
to
it
.
The
Fifth
Performance
of
Providence
.
V.
THus
you
hear
,
how
instrumental
Providence
hath
been
,
in
ordering
the
Means
and
Occasions
of
the
greatest
Mercies
for
your
souls
.
Let
us
now
take
into
consideration
,
in
respect
of
that
Imployment
and
Calling
it
hath
ordered
for
you
in
this
world
;
for
it
hath
not
only
an
Eye
upon
your
well
being
in
the
world
to
come
,
but
upon
your
well
being
in
this
world
also
;
and
that
very
much
depends
upon
the
Station
and
Vocation
to
which
it
calls
you
.
Now
the
Providence
of
God
with
respect
to
our
civil
Callings
,
may
be
displayed
very
takingly
in
the
following
particulars
.
In
directing
you
to
a
Calling
in
your
Youth
,
and
not
suffering
you
to
live
an
idle
,
useless
and
sinful
life
,
as
many
do
,
who
are
but
burthens
to
the
Earth
,
fruges
consumere
nati
,
the
Wens
of
the
body
politick
,
serving
only
to
disfigure
and
drein
it
,
to
eat
what
others
earn
.
Sin
brought
in
sweat
,
Gen.
3.
19.
but
now
,
not
to
sweat
increaseth
sin
,
2
Thess.
3.
12.
He
that
lives
idly
,
cannot
live
honestly
;
as
is
plainly
enough
intimated
,
1
Thess.
4.
11
,
12.
But
when
God
puts
men
into
a
lawful
Calling
,
wherein
the
labours
of
their
hands
or
heads
is
sufficient
for
them
,
it
is
a
very
valuable
mercy
:
for
thereby
they
eat
their
own
bread
,
2
Thess.
3.
12.
Many
a
sad
Temptation
is
happily
prevented
;
and
they
are
ordinarily
furnished
by
it
,
for
works
of
mercy
to
others
,
and
surely
it
is
more
blessed
to
give
,
than
to
receive
.
In
ordering
you
to
such
Callings
and
Imployments
in
the
world
,
as
are
,
not
only
lawful
in
themselves
,
but
most
suitable
to
you
.
There
be
many
persons
imployed
in
sinful
Trades
and
Arts
,
meerly
to
furnish
other
mens
lusts
:
they
do
not
only
sin
in
their
Imployments
;
but
their
very
Imployments
are
sinful
:
they
trade
for
Hell
,
and
are
Factors
for
the
Devil
.
DemetrJus
and
the
Crafts-men
at
Ephesus
,
got
their
Estates
by
makeing
Shrines
for
DJana
,
Acts
19.
24
,
25.
(
i.
e.
)
little
cases
,
or
boxes
with
folding
leaves
,
within
which
the
Image
of
that
Idol
sate
enshrined
.
These
were
carried
about
by
the
People
in
Procession
,
in
honour
of
their
Idol
.
And
at
this
day
,
how
many
wicked
Arts
and
Imployments
are
there
invented
,
(
and
multitudes
of
persons
maintained
by
them
)
meerly
to
gratifie
the
pride
and
wantonness
of
a
debauched
age
?
Now
to
have
an
honest
lawful
imployment
,
wherein
you
do
not
dishonour
God
in
benefiting
your selves
,
is
no
small
mercy
.
But
if
it
be
not
only
lawful
in
it self
,
but
suited
to
your
genJus
and
strength
,
there
is
a
double
mercy
in
it
.
Some
poor
Creatures
are
engaged
in
Callings
,
that
eat
up
their
time
and
strength
,
and
make
their
lives
very
uncomfortable
to
them
:
they
have
not
only
spending
and
wasting
Imployments
in
the
world
;
but
such
as
allow
them
little
or
no
time
for
their
general
Calling
:
and
yet
all
this
doth
but
keep
them
and
theirs
alive
.
Oh
therefore
,
if
God
have
●itted
you
with
an
honest
Imployment
,
wherein
you
have
Iess
toil
than
others
,
and
more
time
for
Heavenly
Exercises
,
ascribe
this
benefit
to
the
special
care
of
Providence
for
you
.
In
setling
you
in
such
an
Imployment
and
Calling
in
the
world
,
as
possibly
neither
your selves
nor
Parents
could
ever
expect
you
should
arrive
to
.
There
are
among
us
such
persons
,
as
on
this
account
are
signally
obliged
to
Divine
Providence
.
God
hath
put
them
into
such
a
way
,
as
neither
they
nor
their
Parents
ever
projected
.
For
,
look
as
the
Flower-de-luce
in
the
Campass
,
turns
now
this
way
,
then
that
way
,
and
never
ceases
moving
,
till
it
settle
to
the
North
point
;
just
so
it
is
in
our
setlement
in
the
world
.
A
Child
is
now
designed
for
this
,
then
for
that
,
but
at
last
setles
in
that
way
of
Imployment
which
Providence
designed
him
to
.
How
strangely
are
things
wheeled
about
by
Providence
!
not
what
we
,
or
our
Parents
,
but
what
God
designed
shall
take
place
.
Amos
was
very
meanly
employed
at
first
,
but
God
designed
him
for
a
more
honourable
and
comfortable
Calling
,
Amos
7.
14
,
15.
David
followed
the
Ewes
,
and
likely
never
raised
his
thoughts
to
higher
things
in
the
dayes
of
his
youth
;
but
God
made
him
the
Royal
Shepherd
of
a
better
flock
,
Psalm
78.
70
,
71.
Peter
and
Andrew
were
imployed
as
Fisher-men
,
but
Christ
calls
them
from
that
to
an
higher
Calling
,
Matth.
4.
18
,
19.
to
be
fishers
of
men
.
Pareus
when
h●
was
fourteen
years
old
,
was
by
the
instigation
of
his
Step-mother
,
placed
with
an
Apothecary
;
but
Providence
so
wrought
,
that
he
was
taken
off
from
that
,
and
sitted
for
the
Ministry
;
wherein
he
became
a
fruitful
and
eminent
Instrument
to
the
Church
.
James
Andreas
was
by
reason
of
his
Fathers
inability
to
keep
him
at
School
,
designed
for
a
Carpenter
;
but
was
afterwards
by
the
perswasion
of
friends
,
and
assistance
of
the
Church-stock
sent
to
Stutgard
,
and
thence
to
the
University
,
and
so
arrived
to
a
very
eminent
station
of
service
to
the
Chruch
.
A
master
builder
OecolampadJus
was
by
his
Father
designed
for
a
Merchant
;
but
his
Mother
by
earnest
entreaties
,
prevailed
to
keep
him
at
School
:
and
this
Man
was
a
blessed
Instrument
in
the
reformation
of
Religion
,
I
might
easily
cite
multitudes
of
such
Instances
;
but
a
taste
may
suffice
.
In
securing
your
Estates
from
ruine
,
Job
1.
10.
Hast
thou
not
made
an
hedge
about
him
,
and
all
that
he
hath
?
This
is
the
Enclosure
of
Providence
,
which
secures
to
us
,
what
by
its
favour
we
acquire
in
the
way
of
honest
industry
.
In
making
your
Calling
sufficient
for
you
.
It
was
the
prayer
of
Moses
f●r
the
Tribe
of
Judah
,
Exod.
33.
7.
Let
his
hands
be
sufficJent
for
him
:
and
it
is
no
small
mercy
,
if
yours
be
so
to
you
.
Some
there
be
that
have
work
,
but
not
strength
to
go
through
with
it
;
others
have
strength
,
but
no
imployment
for
it
.
Some
have
hands
,
and
work
for
them
;
but
it
's
not
sufficient
for
them
and
theirs
.
If
God
bless
your
labours
,
so
as
to
give
you
and
yours
necessary
supports
,
and
comfort
in
the
world
by
it
,
it
's
a
choice
Providence
,
and
with
all
thankfulness
to
be
acknowledged
.
Object
.
1.
IF
any
that
fear
God
shall
complain
,
That
although
they
have
a
Calling
,
yet
it
is
an
hard
and
laborious
one
,
which
takes
up
too
much
of
their
time
,
which
they
would
gladly
imploy
in
other
,
and
better
work
.
I
answer
,
(
1.
)
It
's
like
,
(
2.
)
Hereby
it
may
be
,
your
health
is
the
better
preserved
,
and
natural
refreshments
made
the
sweeter
to
you
,
Eccle●
.
5.
12.
The
sleep
of
a
labouring
man
is
sweet
to
him
,
whether
he
eat
little
or
much
:
but
the
abundance
of
the
rich
,
will
not
suffer
him
to
sleep
.
(
3.
)
And
as
to
the
service
of
God
,
if
your
hearts
be
spiritual
,
you
may
enjoy
much
Communion
with
God
in
your
very
Imployments
,
and
you
have
some
intervals
and
respits
for
that
purpose
.
Have
you
not
more
spare
hours
,
than
you
imploy
to
that
end
?
Object
2.
Though
the
Wisdom
of
Providence
hath
ordered
you
a
lower
,
having
food
and
rayment
(
though
none
of
the
finest
)
to
be
therewith
content
.
A
little
that
a
righteous
man
hath
,
is
better
than
the
riches
of
many
wicked
,
Psal.
37.
16.
better
in
the
AcquisitJon
,
sweeter
in
the
FruitJon
,
and
more
comfortable
in
the
Account
.
Well
then
,
if
Providence
hath
so
disposed
of
you
all
,
that
you
can
eat
your
own
bread
,
and
so
advantagiously
directed
some
of
you
to
imployments
,
that
afford
not
only
necessaries
for
your selves
and
families
,
but
an
overplus
for
works
of
mercy
to
others
,
and
all
this
brought
about
for
you
in
a
way
you
did
not
project
;
let
God
be
owned
,
and
honoured
in
this
Providence
.
Will
you
not
henceforth
call
him
,
My
Father
,
the
Guide
of
my
youth
?
as
it
is
Jer.
3.
4.
Surely
,
it
was
the
Lord
that
guided
you
to
setle
as
you
did
in
those
dayes
of
your
youth
:
You
reap
at
this
day
,
and
may
to
your
last
day
,
the
fruits
of
those
early
Providences
in
your
youth
.
NOw
see
that
you
walk
answerably
to
the
obligations
of
Providence
in
this
particular
;
and
see
to
it
in
the
fear
of
God
,
that
you
abuse
not
any
of
those
things
to
his
dishonour
,
which
he
hath
wrought
for
your
comfort
.
To
prevent
which
,
I
will
here
drop
a
few
needful
Cautions
,
and
shut
up
this
particular
.
Be
not
slothful
and
idle
in
your
VocatJons
.
Adam
,
Gen.
3.
19.
no
doubts
reaches
all
his
posterity
:
and
Gospel-Commands
back
and
second
it
upon
Christians
,
Rom.
12.
11.
and
1
Thess.
4.
11.
If
you
be
negligent
,
you
cannot
be
innocent
.
And
yet
,
Be
not
so
intent
upon
your
particular
Callings
,
But
they
that
will
be
rich
fall
into
TemptatJon
,
and
a
snare
,
and
into
many
foolish
and
hurtful
lusts
,
which
drown
men
in
destructJon
and
perditJon
.
The
inhabitants
of
O
Enoc
,
a
dry
Island
near
Athens
,
bestowed
much
labour
to
draw
in
a
River
to
water
it
,
and
make
it
fruitful
;
but
when
the
Sluces
were
opened
,
the
waters
slowed
so
abundantly
,
that
it
overflowed
the
Island
,
and
drowned
the
Inhabitants
.
The
application
is
obvious
.
It
was
an
excellent
saying
of
Seneca
,
rebus
non
me
trado
,
sed
commodo
.
I
don't
give
,
but
lend
my self
to
business
.
Remember
alwayes
,
Thou
shalt
remember
the
Lord
they
God
;
for
it
is
he
that
giveth
thee
power
to
get
wealth
.
The
Devil
himself
was
so
far
Orthodox
,
as
to
acknowledge
it
,
Job
1.
10
,
Hast
not
Thou
made
an
hedge
about
him
,
and
about
his
house
,
and
about
all
that
he
hath
on
every
side
?
Thou
hast
blessed
the
work
of
his
hand
,
&c.
Recommend
therefore
your
affairs
to
God
by
prayer
,
according
to
Psal.
37.
4
,
5.
Delight
thy self
also
in
the
Lord
,
and
he
shall
give
thee
the
desires
of
thine
heart
.
Commit
thy
way
unto
the
Lord
;
trust
also
in
him
,
and
he
shall
bring
it
to
pass
.
And
touch
not
with
that
which
you
cannot
recommend
to
God
by
Prayer
for
a
blessing
.
Be
well
satisfied
in
that
Station
and
Imployment
in
which
Providence
hath
placed
you
,
Let
every
man
abide
in
the
same
Calling
,
wherein
he
was
called
.
Providence
is
wiser
than
you
,
and
you
may
be
confident
hath
suited
all
things
better
to
your
Eternal
good
,
than
you
could
do
,
had
you
been
left
to
your
own
option
,
The
Sixth
Performance
of
Providence
.
VI.
THus
you
see
,
the
care
Providence
hath
had
over
you
in
your
youth
,
in
respect
of
that
Civil
Imployment
to
which
it
guided
us
in
those
dayes
.
We
will
in
the
next
place
consider
it
as
our
Guide
,
and
the
Orderer
of
our
RelatJons
for
us
.
That
Providence
hath
a
special
hand
in
this
matter
,
is
evident
both
from
Scripture
assertions
,
and
the
acknowledgements
of
holy
men
,
who
in
that
great
concernment
of
their
lives
,
have
still
owned
,
and
acknowledged
the
directing
hand
of
Providence
.
Take
an
instance
of
both
.
The
Scripture
plainly
asserts
the
dominion
of
Providence
over
this
affair
in
Prov.
19.
14.
A
prudent
Wife
is
from
the
Lord
:
and
Prov.
18.
22.
Whos
.
findeth
a
Wife
,
findeth
a
good
thing
,
and
obtaineth
favour
of
the
Lord
.
So
for
Children
,
see
Psal.
127.
3.
Lo
,
Children
are
an
heritage
of
the
Lord
;
and
the
fruit
of
the
Womb
is
his
reward
.
And
it
hath
ever
been
the
practice
of
holy
men
,
to
seek
the
Lord
for
direction
and
counsel
,
when
they
have
been
upon
the
change
of
their
condition
.
No
doubt
but
Abraham's
encouragement
in
that
case
was
the
fruit
of
prayer
,
Gen.
24.
7.
His
pious
servant
also
,
who
was
imployed
in
that
affair
,
did
both
earnestly
seek
counsel
of
God
,
Gen
,
24.
12.
and
thankfully
acknowledge
his
gracious
Providence
in
guiding
it
,
Ver.
26
,
27.
The
same
we
may
observe
in
Children
,
the
fruit
of
marriage
,
1
Sam.
1.
20.
Luke
1.
13
,
14.
Now
the
Providence
of
God
may
be
divers
wayes
displayed
for
the
engaging
of
our
hearts
in
love
to
the
God
of
our
mercies
.
(
1.
)
There
is
very
much
of
Providence
seen
in
appointing
the
Parties
each
for
other
.
In
this
,
the
Lord
goes
oftentimes
beyond
our
thoughts
and
projections
;
yea
,
and
oftentimes
crosses
mens
desires
and
designs
to
their
great
advantage
.
Not
what
they
fancy
;
but
what
his
infinite
wisdom
judges
best
,
and
most
beneficial
for
them
takes
place
.
Hence
it
is
,
that
probabilities
are
so
often
dashed
;
and
things
remote
and
utterly
improbable
are
brought
about
,
in
very
strange
and
unaccountable
methods
of
Providence
.
(
2.
)
There
is
much
of
Providence
seen
in
the
harmony
and
agreeableness
of
tempers
and
dispositions
;
from
whence
a
very
great
part
of
the
tranquillity
and
comforts
of
our
lives
results
:
or
at
least
,
though
natural
tempers
and
educations
did
not
so
much
harmonize
before
,
yet
they
do
so
after
they
come
under
the
Ordinance
of
God
,
Gen.
2.
24.
They
two
shall
be
one
flesh
,
not
one
only
in
respect
of
Gods
institutJon
,
but
one
in
respect
of
love
and
affectJon
,
that
those
who
so
lately
were
meer
strangers
to
each
other
,
are
now
endeared
to
a
degree
beyond
the
nearest
relations
in
blood
.
Vbi
supra
,
For
this
cause
shall
a
man
leave
Father
and
Mother
,
and
shall
cleave
to
his
Wife
,
and
they
two
shall
be
one
flesh
.
(
3.
)
But
especially
,
Providence
is
remarkable
,
in
making
one
instrumental
to
the
eternal
good
of
the
other
,
I
Cor.
7.
16.
How
knowest
thou
,
O
Wife
,
but
thou
maist
save
thy
Husband
?
or
how
knowest
thou
,
O
Man
,
whether
thou
shalt
save
thy
Wife
?
Hence
is
that
grave
Exhortation
to
the
Wives
of
unbelieving
Husbands
,
1
Pet.
3.
1.
to
win
them
by
their
conversation
,
which
should
be
to
them
in
stead
of
an
ordinance
.
Or
if
both
be
gracious
,
then
what
singular
assistance
and
mutual
help
is
hereby
gained
to
the
furtherance
of
their
Eternal
good
?
Whilst
they
live
together
as
Heirs
of
the
grace
of
life
,
I
Pet.
3.
7.
O
blessed
Providence
!
that
directed
such
into
so
intimate
relation
on
Earth
,
who
shall
inherit
together
the
common
SalvatJon
in
Heaven
!
(
4.
)
How
much
of
Providence
is
seen
in
Children
the
fruit
of
MarrJage
?
To
have
any
Posterity
in
the
Earth
,
and
not
be
left
altogether
as
a
dry
tree
:
To
have
comfort
and
joy
in
them
,
is
a
special
Providence
,
importing
a
special
mercy
to
us
.
To
have
the
breaches
made
upon
our
Families
repaired
,
is
a
Providence
to
be
owned
with
a
thankful
heart
.
When
God
shall
say
to
a
man
,
as
he
speaks
in
another
case
to
the
Church
,
Isa.
49.
20.
The
Children
which
thou
shalt
have
after
thou
hast
lost
the
other
,
shall
say
again
in
thine
ears
,
the
place
is
too
strait
for
me
,
&c
And
these
Providences
will
appear
more
affectingly
sweet
and
lovely
to
you
,
if
you
but
compare
its
allotments
to
you
,
with
what
it
hath
allotted
to
many
others
in
the
world
.
For
do
but
look
abroad
,
and
you
shall
find
,
(
1.
)
Multitudes
unequally
yoked
,
to
the
imbittering
of
their
lives
,
whose
Relations
are
clogs
and
hinderances
both
in
Temporals
and
Spirituals
.
Yea
,
we
find
an
account
in
Scripture
of
gracious
persons
,
a
great
part
of
whose
comfort
in
this
world
hath
been
split
upon
this
Rock
.
Abigail
was
a
discreet
and
vertuous
W●man
,
but
very
unsuitably
matched
to
a
churlish
Nabal
;
see
1
Sam.
25.
25.
What
a
temptation
to
the
neglect
of
a
known
duty
,
prevail'd
upon
the
renowned
Moses
,
by
the
means
of
Zipporah
his
Wife
?
Exod.
4.
24
,
25.
David
had
his
scoffing
Michal
,
2
Sam.
6.
20.
And
patient
Job
no
small
addition
to
all
his
other
afflictions
,
from
the
Wife
of
his
bosom
,
who
should
have
been
a
support
to
him
in
the
day
of
his
trouble
,
Job
19.
17.
No
doubt
,
but
God
sanctifies
such
rods
to
his
Peoples
good
.
If
Socrates
knew
how
to
improve
his
affliction
in
his
Zantippe
,
to
the
increase
of
his
patience
;
much
more
will
they
who
converse
with
God
under
all
Providences
,
whether
sweet
or
bitter
.
Nevertheless
this
must
be
acknowledged
to
be
a
sad
stroke
upon
any
person
,
and
such
as
maims
them
upon
the
working
hand
,
by
unfitting
them
for
duty
,
1
Pet.
3.
7.
and
cuts
off
much
of
the
comfort
of
life
also
.
(
2.
)
How
many
are
there
,
who
never
enjoy
the
comfortable
fruits
of
Marriage
?
but
are
denyed
the
sight
,
at
least
,
the
enjoyment
of
Children
,
Jer.
22.
30.
Thus
saith
the
Lord
,
write
this
man
Childless
,
&c.
or
if
they
have
Children
,
yet
cannot
enjoy
them
,
Hosea
9.
12.
Though
they
bring
up
Children
,
yet
will
I
bereave
them
,
that
there
shall
not
be
a
man
left
;
who
only
bear
for
the
grave
,
and
have
their
expectations
raised
for
a
greater
affliction
to
themselves
.
(
3.
)
And
it
is
no
rare
or
unusual
thing
to
see
Children
and
near
Relations
the
greatest
Instruments
of
affliction
to
their
Parents
and
Friends
:
so
that
after
all
their
other
sorrows
and
troubles
in
the
World
,
nearest
Relations
bring
up
the
rear
of
sorrows
(
as
One
speaks
)
and
prove
greater
griefs
than
any
other
.
T.
C.
in
his
Isa●gog●
O
how
many
Parents
have
complained
with
the
Tree
in
the
Fable
,
that
their
very
hearts
have
been
rived
asunder
with
those
Wedges
that
were
cut
out
of
their
own
bodies
?
What
a
grief
was
Esau
to
Isaac
and
Rabecka
?
Gen.
26.
34
,
35.
What
a
scourge
were
Absalom
and
Amnon
to
David
?
Well
then
,
if
God
have
set
the
solitary
in
FamilJes
,
as
it
is
Psal.
68.
6.
built
an
house
for
the
desolate
,
given
you
comfortable
relations
,
which
are
springs
of
daily
comfort
and
refreshment
to
you
,
you
are
upon
many
accounts
engaged
to
walk
answerably
to
these
gracious
Providences
.
And
that
you
may
understand
wherein
that
decorum
and
agreeable
comportment
with
these
Providences
consists
,
take
up
the
sense
of
your
duty
in
these
brief
hints
.
(
1.
)
Ascribe
to
God
the
glory
of
all
those
Providential
works
which
yield
you
comfort
.
You
see
a
wise
,
directing
,
governing
Providence
,
which
hath
disposed
and
ordered
all
things
beyond
your
own
projections
and
designs
.
The
way
of
man
is
not
in
himself
,
nor
is
it
in
him
that
walketh
to
direct
his
own
steps
,
Jer.
10.
23.
Not
what
you
projected
,
but
what
an
higher
counsel
than
yours
determined
,
is
come
to
pass
.
Good
Jacob
when
God
had
made
him
the
Father
of
a
Family
,
admired
God
in
the
mercy
,
Gen.
32.
10.
With
my
staff
(
said
he
)
I
passed
over
this
Jordan
,
and
now
I
am
become
two
bands
.
And
how
doth
this
mercy
humble
and
melt
him
?
I
am
not
worthy
of
the
least
of
all
the
mercJes
,
and
of
all
the
〈◊〉
,
which
thou
hast
shewed
unto
thy
servant
.
Be
exact
in
discharging
the
duties
of
those
Relations
which
so
gracious
a
Providence
hath
led
you
into
.
Abuse
not
the
effects
of
so
much
mercy
and
love
to
you
.
The
Lord
expects
praise
,
where
ever
you
have
comfort
.
This
aggravated
David's
sin
,
that
he
should
dare
to
abuse
so
great
love
and
mercy
,
as
God
had
shewn
him
in
his
Family
Relations
,
2.
Sam.
12.
7
,
8
,
9.
Improve
Relations
to
the
end
Providence
designed
them
.
Walk
together
as
Co-heirs
of
the
grace
of
life
:
study
to
be
mutual
blessings
to
each
other
:
so
walk
in
your
Relations
,
that
the
parting
day
may
be
sweet
.
Death
will
shortly
break
up
the
Family
;
and
then
nothing
but
the
sense
of
duty
discharged
,
or
the
neglects
pardoned
,
will
give
comfort
.
The
Seventh
Performance
of
Providence
.
VII
.
YOu
have
heard
how
well
Providence
hath
performed
its
part
of
you
,
in
making
provisJon
from
time
to
time
for
us
and
our
FamilJes
.
I
the
rather
put
these
Providences
together
in
this
place
,
because
I
find
the
Scripture
doth
so
,
Psalm
107.
41.
He
setteth
the
poor
on
high
from
afflictJon
,
and
maketh
him
familJes
like
a
flock
.
You
know
the
Promises
God
hath
made
to
his
People
,
Psal.
34.
10.
The
young
LJons
shall
lack
,
and
suffer
hunger
;
but
they
that
seek
the
Lord
,
shall
not
want
any
good
thing
.
And
have
you
not
also
seen
the
constant
performance
of
it
?
Cannot
you
give
the
same
answer
,
if
the
same
question
were
propounded
to
you
that
the
Disciples
did
,
Luke
22.
35.
Since
I
sent
you
forth
,
lacked
ye
any
thing
?
and
they
said
,
nothing
.
Can
ye
not
with
Jacob
,
call
him
,
the
God
that
fed
you
all
your
life
long
?
Gen.
48.
15.
Surely
he
hath
given
bread
to
them
that
fear
him
,
and
been
ever
mindful
of
his
Covenant
,
Psal.
111.
5.
To
display
this
Providence
,
we
will
consider
it
in
the
following
particulars
.
(
1.
)
The
assiduity
and
constancy
of
the
care
of
Providence
for
the
Saints
,
Lam.
3.
23.
His
mercJes
are
new
every
morning
.
It
is
not
the
supply
of
one
or
two
pressing
needs
,
but
all
your
wants
,
as
they
grow
from
day
to
day
through
all
your
dayes
,
Gen.
48.
15.
The
God
that
fed
me
all
my
life
long
.
The
care
of
Providence
runs
parallel
with
the
line
of
life
.
See
Isa.
46.
3
,
4.
Hearken
unto
me
,
O
house
of
Jacob
,
and
all
the
remnant
of
the
house
of
Israel
,
which
are
born
by
me
from
the
belly
,
which
are
carryed
from
the
Womb
:
and
even
to
your
old
age
I
am
he
,
and
even
to
hoar
hairs
will
I
carry
.
you
:
I
have
made
,
and
I
will
bear
,
even
I
will
carry
,
and
will
deliver
you
.
So
that
as
God
bid
Israel
,
Micah
6.
5.
to
remember
from
Shittim●
unto
Gilgal
,
that
they
might
know
the
faithfulness
of
the
Lord
;
so
would
I
perswade
thee
,
Reader
,
to
record
the
wayes
of
Providence
,
from
first
to
last
,
throughout
thy
whole
course
of
this
day
,
that
thou
maist
see
what
a
God
he
hath
been
to
thee
.
(
2.
)
The
seasonableness
,
and
opportuneness
of
its
provisions
for
them
:
for
so
runs
the
promise
,
Isa.
41.
17.
When
the
poor
and
needy
seek
water
,
and
there
is
none
,
and
their
tongue
faileth
for
thirst
,
I
the
Lord
will
hear
them
,
I
the
God
of
Israel
will
not
forsake
them
;
and
so
hath
the
performance
of
it
been
.
And
this
hath
been
made
good
to
distressed
Saints
sometimes
in
a
more
ordinary
way
,
God
secretly
blessing
a
little
,
and
making
it
sufficient
for
us
and
ours
:
Job
tells
us
of
the
secret
of
God
upon
his
Tabernacle
,
Job
29.
4.
(
i.
e.
)
his
secret
blessing
is
in
their
Tabernacles
;
by
reason
whereof
it
is
that
they
subsist
;
but
it
is
in
an
unaccountable
way
that
they
do
so
.
And
sometimes
in
an
extraordinary
way
it
breaks
forth
for
their
supply
.
So
you
find
in
2
Kings
17.
9
,
10
,
11
,
12
,
13
,
14.
the
Cruse
and
Barrel
sail
not
.
Mr.
Samuel
Clarke
,
John
Fox
,
records
a
memorable
Instance
of
Providence
,
and
it
is
this
,
That
towards
the
end
of
King
Henry
the
Eighth
his
Reign
he
went
to
London
,
where
he
quickly
spent
that
little
his
friends
had
given
him
,
or
he
had
acquired
by
his
own
diligence
,
and
began
to
be
in
great
want
.
As
one
day
he
sate
in
Paul's
Church
,
spent
with
long
fasting
▪
his
countenance
thin
,
and
his
eyes
hollow
,
aft●●
the
ghastful
manner
of
dying
men
,
every
one
shunning
a
Spectacle
of
so
much
horror
:
There
came
one
to
him
,
whom
he
had
never
seen
before
,
and
thrust
an
untold
summ
of
money
into
his
hand
,
bidding
him
,
be
of
good
cheer
,
and
accept
that
small
gift
in
good
part
from
his
Countrey-man
;
and
that
he
should
make
much
of
himself
,
for
that
within
a
few
dayes
new
hopes
were
at
hand
,
and
a
more
certain
condition
of
livelihood
.
Three
dayes
after
the
Dutchess
of
Richmond
sent
for
him
to
live
in
her
house
,
and
be
Tutor
to
the
Earl
of
Surrey's
Children
,
then
under
her
care
.
Mr.
Isaac
Ambrose
a
worthy
Divine
,
whose
labours
have
made
him
acceptable
to
his
generatJon
,
in
his
Epistle
to
the
Earl
of
Bedford
prefixed
to
his
Last
things
,
gives
a
pregnant
Instance
in
his
own
case
;
his
words
are
these
;
For
mine
own
part
,
(
saith
he
)
however
the
Lord
hath
seen
cause
to
give
me
but
a
poor
pittance
of
outward
things
,
for
which
I
bless
his
name
;
yet
in
the
income
thereof
,
I
have
many
times
observed
so
much
of
his
peculiar
Providence
,
that
thereby
they
have
been
very
much
sweetned
,
and
my
heart
hath
been
raised
to
admire
his
grace
.
When
of
late
under
an
hard
dispensation
(
which
I
judge
not
meet
to
mention
)
wherein
I
suffered
conscientiously
)
all
streams
of
wonted
supplyes
being
stopt
,
the
waters
of
relief
for
my self
and
family
did
run
low
▪
I
went
to
bed
with
some
staggerings
and
doubtings
of
the
Fountains
letting
out
it self
for
our
refreshing
;
but
e're
I
did
awake
in
the
morning
,
a
Letter
was
brought
to
my
bed
side
,
which
was
signed
by
a
choice
friend
Mr.
Anthony
Ash
,
which
reported
some
unexpected
breakings
out
of
Gods
goodness
for
my
comfort
.
These
are
some
of
his
lines
—
Your
God
who
hath
given
you
an
heart
thankfully
to
record
your
experiences
of
his
goodness
,
doth
renew
experiences
for
your
encouragement
.
Now
I
shall
report
one
,
which
will
raise
your
spirit
toward
the
God
of
your
mercies
.
Whereupon
he
sweetly
concludes
,
One
morsel
of
Gods
provision
,
especially
when
it
comes
in
unexpected
and
upon
prayer
,
when
wants
are
most
,
will
be
more
sweet
to
a
spirituall
relish
,
than
all
former
enjoyments
were
.
(
3.
)
The
Wisdom
of
Providence
in
our
provisions
.
And
this
is
discovered
in
two
things
:
(
1.
)
In
proportioning
the
quantity
,
not
satisfying
our
extravagent
wishes
,
but
answering
our
real
needs
;
consulting
our
wants
,
not
our
wantonness
,
Phil.
4.
19.
My
God
shall
supply
all
your
wants
;
and
this
hath
exactly
suited
the
wishes
of
the
best
and
wisest
men
,
who
desired
no
more
at
its
hand
.
So.
Jacob
,
Gen.
28.
20.
and
Agur
,
Prov.
30.
8
,
9.
Wise
Providence
considers
our
condition
as
Pilgrims
and
Strangers
,
and
so
allots
the
VJaticum
provision
,
that
is
needful
for
our
passage
home
.
It
knows
the
mischievous
influence
of
fulness
and
redundancy
upon
most
men
,
though
sanctified
;
and
how
apt
it
is
to
make
them
remiss
,
and
forgetful
of
God
,
Deut.
6.
12.
that
their
hearts
,
like
the
Moon
,
suffers
an
Eclipse
when
it
is
at
the
full
;
and
so
●a●ts
and
orders
all
to
their
best
advantage
(
2.
)
It
s
Wisdom
is
much
discovered
in
the
manner
of
dispensing
our
portion
to
us
.
It
many
times
suffers
our
wants
to
pinch
hard
,
and
many
scars
to
arise
,
out
of
design
to
magnifie
the
care
and
love
of
God
in
the
supply
,
Deut.
8.
3.
Providence
so
orders
the
case
,
that
faith
and
prayer
coming
betwixt
our
wants
and
supplies
,
the
goodness
of
God
may
be
the
more
magnified
in
our
eyes
thereby
.
And
now
let
me
beg
you
to
consider
the
good
hand
of
Providence
,
that
hath
provided
for
,
and
suitably
supplyed
you
and
yours
all
your
dayes
,
and
never
failed
you
hitherto
:
and
labour
to
walk
suitably
to
your
experiences
of
such
mercies
.
In
order
whereunto
,
let
me
press
a
few
suitable
Cautions
upon
you
.
Beware
,
that
you
forget
not
the
care
and
kindness
of
Providence
which
your
eyes
have
seen
in
so
many
fruits
and
experiences
thereof
.
It
was
Gods
charge
against
Israel
,
Psal.
106.
3.
that
they
soon
forgat
his
wondrous
works
.
A
bad
heart
and
a
slippery
memory
,
deprive
men
of
the
comfort
of
many
mercies
,
and
defraud
God
of
the
glory
due
for
them
.
Do
not
distrust
Providence
in
future
exigencies
.
Thus
they
did
,
Psal.
78.
20.
Behold
,
he
smote
the
rock
,
that
the
waters
gushed
out
,
and
the
streams
overflowed
:
can
he
give
bread
also
?
can
he
provide
flesh
for
his
people
?
How
unreasonable
and
absurd
are
these
queries
of
unbelief
,
especially
after
their
eyes
had
seen
the
power
of
God
in
such
extraordinary
effects
?
Do
not
murmur
and
regret
under
new
straits
.
This
is
a
vile
temper
;
and
yet
how
incident
to
us
,
when
wants
press
hard
upon
us
!
Ah!
did
we
but
rightly
understand
what
the
demerit
of
sin
is
,
we
would
rather
admire
the
bounty
of
God
,
than
complain
of
the
strait-handedness
of
Providence
.
And
if
we
did
but
consider
,
that
there
lyes
upon
God
no
obligation
of
Justice
or
Gratitude
to
reward
any
of
our
duties
,
it
would
cure
our
murmurs
,
Gen.
32.
10.
Do
not
shew
the
least
discontent
at
the
lot
and
portion
Providence
carves
out
to
you
.
O
that
you
would
be
well
pleased
and
satisfied
with
all
its
appointments
.
Say
as
Psal.
16.
6.
The
lines
are
fallen
unto
me
in
pleasant
places
;
yea
,
I
have
a
goodly
heritage
.
Surely
that
is
best
for
you
,
which
Providence
hath
appointed
,
and
one
day
you
your selves
will
judge
it
so
to
be
.
Do
not
neglect
Prayer
when
straits
befall
you
.
You
see
it's
Providence
dispenses
all
,
you
live
upon
it
;
therefore
apply
your selves
to
God
in
the
times
of
need
.
This
is
evidently
included
in
the
Promise
,
Isa.
41.
17.
as
well
as
expressed
in
the
Command
,
Phil.
4.
6.
Remember
God
,
and
he
will
not
forget
you
.
Do
not
distract
your
hearts
with
sinful
cares
,
Matth.
6.
25
,
26.
Consider
the
fowls
of
the
Air
,
(
saith
Christ
)
not
the
fowls
at
the
Door
,
that
are
daily
fed
by
hand
;
but
those
of
the
Air
,
that
know
not
where
to
have
the
next
meal
;
and
yet
God
provides
for
them
.
Remember
your
relation
to
Christ
,
and
his
engagements
by
promise
to
you
,
and
by
these
things
work
your
hearts
to
satisfaction
and
content
with
all
the
allotments
of
Providence
.
The
Eighth
Performance
of
Providence
.
VIII
.
THe
next
great
advantage
and
mercy
the
Saints
receive
from
the
hand
of
Providence
,
in
their
preservatJon
from
the
snares
,
and
temptatJons
of
sin
,
by
its
preventing
care
over
them
.
That
Providence
wards
off
many
a
deadly
stroke
of
Temptation
,
and
puts
by
many
a
mortal
thrust
which
Satan
makes
at
our
souls
,
is
a
truth
as
manifest
as
the
light
that
shineth
.
This
is
included
in
that
promise
,
1
Cor.
10.
13.
God
will
with
the
temptatJon
make
a
way
to
escape
,
that
ye
may
be
able
to
bear
it
.
Providence
gives
an
out-let
for
the
souls
escape
,
when
it
is
shut
up
into
the
dangerous
straits
of
Temptation
.
There
are
two
eminent
wayes
whereby
the
force
and
efficacacy
of
temptation
is
broken
in
believers
.
One
is
by
the
operation
of
internal
grace
,
Gal.
5.
17.
The
Spirit
lusteth
against
the
flesh
;
so
that
ye
cannot
do
the
things
that
ye
would
(
i.
e.
)
Sanctification
gives
sin
a
miscarrying
womb
after
it
hath
conceived
in
the
soul.
The
other
way
,
is
by
the
external
working
of
Providence
;
and
of
this
I
am
here
engaged
to
speak
.
The
Providence
of
God
is
the
great
Obex
and
hinderance
to
a
world
of
sin
,
which
else
would
break
forth
like
an
overflowing
flood
from
our
corrupt
natures
.
It
prevents
abundance
of
sin
,
which
else
wicked
men
would
commit
,
Gen.
19.
11.
The
Sodomites
were
greedily
pursuing
their
lusts
:
God
providentially
hinders
it
,
by
smiting
them
blind
.
Jeroboam
intends
to
smite
the
Prophet
;
Providence
interpos'd
,
and
wither'd
his
arm
,
1
Kings
13.
4.
Thus
you
see
,
when
wicked
men
have
contrived
,
and
are
ready
to
execute
their
wickedness
,
Providence
claps
on
its
manacles
,
that
their
hands
cannot
perform
their
enterprises
,
as
it
is
Job
5.
12.
And
so
much
corruption
there
remains
in
good
men
,
that
they
would
certainly
plunge
themselves
under
much
more
guilt
than
they
do
,
if
Providence
did
not
take
greater
care
of
them
than
they
do
of
themselves
:
for
though
they
make
conscience
of
keeping
themselves
,
and
daily
watch
their
hearts
and
wayes
,
yet
such
is
the
deceitfulness
of
sin
,
that
if
Providence
did
not
lay
blocks
in
their
way
,
it
would
(
more
frequently
than
it
doth
)
entangle
and
defile
them
.
And
this
it
doth
divers
wayes
.
(
1.
)
Sometimes
by
stirring
up
others
to
interpose
with
seasonable
counsels
,
which
effectually
disswade
them
from
prosecuting
an
evil
design
.
Thus
Abigail
meets
David
in
the
nick
of
time
,
and
disswades
him
from
his
evil
purpose
,
1
Sam.
25.
34.
And
I
find
it
recorded
(
as
on
another
account
was
noted
before
)
of
that
holy
man
Mr.
Dod
,
that
being
late
at
night
in
his
Study
,
he
was
strongly
moved
(
though
at
an
unseasonable
hour
)
to
visit
a
Gentleman
of
his
acquaintance
;
and
not
knowing
what
might
be
the
design
of
Providence
therein
,
he
obeyed
,
and
went
;
when
he
came
to
the
house
,
after
a
●ew
knocks
at
the
door
,
the
Gentleman
himself
came
to
him
,
and
askt
him
,
whether
he
had
any
business
to
him
:
Mr.
Dod
answered
,
no
:
but
that
he
could
not
be
quiet
till
he
had
seen
him
.
O
Sir
,
(
reply'd
the
Gentleman
,
)
you
are
sent
of
God
at
this
hour
,
for
just
now
(
and
with
that
,
takes
the
Halter
out
of
his
pokcet
,
)
I
was
going
to
destroy
my self
.
And
thus
was
the
mischief
prevented
.
(
2.
)
Sometimes
by
hindering
the
Means
and
Instruments
,
whereby
the
Evil
it self
is
prevented
.
Thus
,
when
good
Jehosaphat
had
joyned
himself
with
that
wicked
King
AhazJah
,
to
build
Ships
at
EzJon-Gaber
to
go
to
Tarshish
,
God
prevents
the
design
,
by
breaking
the
Ships
with
a
storm
,
as
you
read
,
2
Chron.
20.
35
,
36
,
37.
We
find
also
in
the
Life
of
Mr.
Bolton
,
written
by
Mr.
Bagshaw
,
That
whilst
he
was
in
Oxford
,
he
had
familiar
acquaintance
with
Mr.
Anderton
,
a
good
Scholar
,
but
a
strong
Papist
,
who
knowing
Mr.
Bolton's
good
parts
,
and
perceiving
that
he
was
in
some
outward
wants
,
took
this
advantage
,
and
used
many
arguments
to
perswade
him
to
be
reconciled
to
the
Church
of
Rome
,
and
to
go
over
with
him
to
the
English
Seminary
,
assuring
him
he
should
be
furnished
with
all
necessaries
,
and
have
gold
enough
.
Mr.
Bolton
being
at
that
time
,
poor
in
mind
and
purse
,
accepted
the
motion
,
and
a
day
and
place
was
appointed
in
Lancashire
,
where
they
should
meet
and
take
shipping
and
be
gone
:
but
Mr.
Anderton
came
not
,
and
so
he
escaped
the
share
.
(
3.
)
Sometimes
by
laying
some
strong
affliction
upon
the
body
,
Hosea
2.
6.
I
will
hedge
up
her
way
with
thorns
.
Thus
Basil
was
a
long
time
exercised
with
a
violent
head-ach
,
which
(
as
he
observed
)
was
used
by
Providence
to
prevent
Lust.
Paul
had
a
thorn
in
the
flesh
,
a
messenger
of
Satan
sent
to
busset
him
:
and
this
affliction
,
whatever
it
was
,
was
ordained
to
prevent
pride
in
him
,
2
Cor.
12.
7.
(
4.
)
Sometimes
sin
is
prevented
in
the
Saints
,
by
the
better
information
of
their
minds
at
the
Sacred
Oracles
of
God
.
Thus
,
when
sinful
motions
began
to
rise
in
David's
mind
,
from
the
prosperity
of
the
wicked
,
and
his
own
afflicted
state
,
and
grew
to
that
height
,
that
he
began
to
think
,
all
he
had
done
in
the
way
of
religion
,
was
little
better
than
lost
labour
;
he
is
set
right
again
,
and
the
temptation
dissolved
,
by
going
into
the
Sanctuary
,
where
God
shewed
him
how
to
take
new
measures
of
persons
and
things
;
to
judge
them
by
their
ends
and
issues
,
not
their
present
appearances
,
Psal.
73.
12
,
13
,
17.
(
5.
)
And
sometimes
the
Providence
of
God
prevents
the
sins
of
his
people
,
by
removing
them
out
of
the
way
of
Temptations
by
death
.
In
which
sense
we
may
understand
that
Text
,
Isa.
57.
1.
The
Righteous
is
taken
away
from
the
Evil
to
come
;
the
evil
of
Sin
as
well
as
Sufferings
.
When
the
Lord
sees
his
people
low
spirited
,
and
not
able
to
grapple
with
strong
tryals
and
temptations
which
are
drawing
on
,
it
is
with
respect
to
them
a
merciful
Providence
,
to
be
disbanded
by
death
,
and
set
out
of
harms
way
.
Now
consider
,
and
admire
the
Providence
of
God
,
O
ye
Saints
,
who
hath
had
more
care
of
your
souls
,
than
ever
ye
had
of
them
.
Had
not
the
Providence
of
God
thus
wrought
for
you
in
a
way
of
prevention
,
it
may
be
you
had
this
day
been
so
many
Magor
Missabibs
.
How
was
the
heart
of
David
melted
under
that
preventing
Providence
fore-mentioned
in
1
Sam.
25.
34.
He
blesses
the
Lord
,
the
Instrument
,
and
the
Counsel
by
which
his
soul
was
preserved
from
sin
.
Do
but
seriously
bethink
your selves
of
a
few
particulars
about
this
case
.
As
,
(
1.
)
How
your
corrupt
natures
have
often
impetuously
hurried
you
on
towards
sin
,
so
that
all
the
inherent
grace
you
had
,
could
not
withstand
its
force
,
if
Providence
had
not
prevented
it
in
some
such
method
as
you
have
heard
,
Jam.
1.
14.
Every
man
is
tempted
when
he
is
drawn
away
of
his
own
lusts
,
and
enticed
.
You
found
your selves
but
feathers
in
the
wind
of
temptation
.
(
2.
)
How
near
you
have
been
brought
to
the
brink
of
sin
,
and
yet
saved
by
a
merciful
hand
of
Providence
.
May
you
not
say
with
him
in
Prov.
5.
14.
I
was
almost
in
the
midst
of
all
evil
:
or
as
Psal.
73.
2.
My
feet
were
almost
gone
,
my
steps
had
well
nigh
slidden
.
O
merciful
Providence
!
that
stept
in
so
opportunely
to
your
relief
.
(
3.
)
How
many
have
been
suffered
to
fall
by
the
hand
of
Temptations
to
the
reproach
of
Religion
,
and
wounding
of
their
own
Consciences
,
to
that
degree
,
that
they
have
never
recovered
former
peace
again
;
but
lived
in
the
world
devoid
of
comfort
to
their
dying
day
?
(
4.
)
How
woful
your
case
had
been
,
if
the
Lord
had
not
mercifully
saved
you
from
many
thousand
temptations
,
that
have
assaulted
you
?
I
tell
you
,
you
cannot
estimate
the
mercies
you
possess
by
means
of
such
Providences
.
Are
your
names
sweet
,
and
your
Consciences
peaceful
,
two
mercies
as
dear
to
you
as
your
two
eyes
?
Why
surely
,
you
owe
them
,
if
not
wholly
,
yet
in
great
measure
,
to
the
aids
and
assistances
Providence
hath
given
you
all
along
the
way
you
have
passed
through
the
dangerous
tempting
World
to
this
day
.
Walk
therefore
suitably
to
this
Obligation
of
Providence
also
:
and
see
,
(
1.
)
That
you
thankfully
own
it
.
Don't
impute
your
escapes
from
sin
to
accidents
,
or
to
your
own
watchfulness
or
wisdom
.
(
2.
)
See
that
you
tempt
not
Providence
on
the
other
hand
,
by
an
irregular
relyance
upon
its
care
over
you
,
without
taking
all
due
care
of
your selves
.
Keep
your selves
in
the
love
of
God
,
Jude
21.
Keep
your
hearts
with
all
diligence
,
Prov.
4.
23.
Though
Providence
keep
you
,
yet
it
is
in
the
way
of
your
duty
.
The
Ninth
Performance
of
Providence
.
IX
.
THus
you
see
what
care
Providence
hath
had
over
your
souls
,
preventing
the
spiritual
dangers
and
miserJes
that
else
would
have
befallen
you
in
the
way
of
temptatJons
:
in
the
next
place
I
will
shew
you
,
that
it
hath
been
no
less
careful
for
your
bodJes
,
Thou
keep●st
me
as
●he
apple
●f
thine
eye
.
The
eye
●ath
five
Tunicks
〈◊〉
guard
it
●gainst
danger
.
(
1.
)
Ara●i●a
tunica
,
●ike
a
Spiders
web
.
(
2.
)
Retiformis
,
like
a
net
.
(
3.
)
Uvea
,
like
a
ber●●y
.
(
4.
)
Cornea
,
like
an
horn
.
(
5.
)
Adnata
tunica
,
the
cover
or
lid
of
the
eye
;
here
is
guard
upon
guard
,
resembling
the
various
wayes
Providence
hath
to
secure
us
from
ruine
.
and
with
how
great
tenderness
it
hath
carrJed
them
in
its
arms
through
innumerable
hazards
▪
and
dangers
also
.
He
is
called
the
keeper
of
Israel
that
never
slumbereth
nor
sleepeth
,
Psal.
121.
4.
the
preserve
of
men
,
Job
.
7.
20.
To
display
the
glory
of
this
Providence
before
you
,
let
us
take
into
consideration
,
The
perils
into
which
the
best
of
men
sometimes
fall
,
and
the
way
and
means
by
which
Providence
preserves
them
in
those
dangers
.
There
are
manifold
hazards
into
which
we
are
often
cast
in
this
World
.
The
Apostle
Paul
gives
us
a
general
account
of
his
dangers
,
in
2
Cor.
11.
26.
And
how
great
a
wonder
is
it
,
that
our
life
hath
not
been
extinguished
in
some
of
those
dangers
we
have
been
in
?
For
,
(
1.
)
Have
not
some
of
us
fallen
,
and
that
often
into
very
dangerous
sicknesses
and
diseases
,
in
which
we
have
approached
to
the
very
brink
of
the
grave
?
and
have
or
might
have
said
with
HezekJah
,
Job
33.
18
,
19
,
20
,
21.
&
28.
Isa.
38.
10.
I
said
in
the
cutting
off
of
my
dayes
,
I
shall
go
to
the
gates
of
the
grave
:
I
am
deprived
of
the
residue
of
my
years
.
Have
we
not
often
had
the
sentence
of
death
in
our selves
?
and
our
bodies
at
that
time
been
like
a
leaky
Ship
in
a
storm
(
as
One
aptly
resembles
it
)
that
hath
taken
in
water
on
every
side
,
T.
Goo●win
in
his
Aggravation
of
sin
against
mercy
,
p.
30.
till
it
was
ready
to
sink
?
Yet
hath
God
preserved
,
careened
,
and
lanched
us
out
again
as
well
as
ever
.
Oh
what
a
wonder
is
it
,
that
such
a
crazy
body
should
be
preserved
for
so
many
years
,
and
survive
so
many
dangers
!
Surely
,
it
is
not
more
admirable
to
see
a
Venice-glass
pass
from
hand
to
hand
in
continual
use
for
forty
or
fifty
years
,
Nascuntur
in
●o
leucoma
,
glaucoma
,
lippitudo
,
xerophthalmJa
,
sicus
,
lithJasis
,
epiphora
&
trignita
id
genus
vitJa
.
and
still
to
remain
whole
,
notwithstanding
many
knocks
and
falls
it
hath
had
.
If
you
enjoy
health
or
recover
out
of
sicknesses
,
it
is
because
he
puts
none
of
these
diseases
upon
thee
,
or
because
he
is
the
Lord
thy
PhysicJan
,
Exod.
125.
26.
(
2.
)
And
how
many
deadly
dangers
hath
his
hand
rescued
some
of
you
from
,
in
those
years
of
confusion
and
publick
calamity
,
when
the
Sword
was
bathed
in
blood
,
and
made
horrid
slaughter
,
when
it
may
be
,
your
lives
were
often
given
you
for
a
prey
?
This
David
put
a
special
remarque
upon
,
Psal.
140.
7.
O
God
the
Lord
,
the
strength
of
my
salvatJon
;
thou
hast
covered
my
head
in
the
day
of
Battel
.
Beza
being
in
France
in
the
first
Civil
War
,
and
there
tossed
up
and
down
for
two
and
twenty
months
,
recorded
six
hundred
deliverances
from
dangers
in
that
space
,
for
which
he
solemnly
gave
God
thanks
in
his
last
Testament
.
If
the
Sword
destroyed
you
not
,
it
was
because
God
did
not
give
it
a
Commission
so
to
do
.
(
3.
)
Many
of
you
have
seen
wonders
of
salvation
upon
the
deeps
,
where
the
hand
of
God
hath
been
signally
stretched
forth
for
your
rescue
and
deliverance
.
This
is
elegantly
expressed
in
Psal●
107.
23
,
24
▪
25
,
26
,
27.
(
which
I
have
[
*
](A39659-e17750-b)
*
See
my
Seaman's
Companion
,
p.
41.
elsewhere
opened
at
large
)
concerning
which
,
you
may
say
in
a
proper
sense
,
what
the
Psalmist
doth
metaphorically
,
Psal.
124.
1.
&
4.
If
it
had
not
been
the
Lord
who
was
on
our
side
,
then
the
waters
had
overwhelmed
us
,
the
stream
had
gone
over
our
soul.
To
see
men
that
have
spent
so
many
years
upon
the
Seas
,
(
where
your
lives
have
continually
hanged
in
suspense
before
you
)
attain
to
your
years
,
when
you
could
neither
be
reckon'd
among
the
living
nor
the
dead
(
as
Seamen
are
not
)
Oh
,
what
cause
have
you
to
adore
your
great
preserver
!
Many
thousands
of
your
Companions
are
gone
down
,
and
you
yet
here
to
praose
the
Lord
among
the
Living
.
You
have
bordered
nearer
to
Eternity
all
you●
dayes
than
others
,
and
often
been
in
eminent
perils
upon
the
Seas
,
surely
such
,
and
so
many
Salvations
call
aloud
upon
you
for
most
thankful
acknowledgements
.
(
4.
)
To
conclude
,
how
innumerable
hazards
and
accidents
,
(
the
least
of
which
hath
cut
off
others
)
hath
God
carried
us
all
through
!
I
think
I
may
safely
say
,
your
privative
and
positive
mercies
of
this
kind
are
more
in
number
than
the
hairs
of
your
heads
.
Many
thousands
of
these
dangers
we
never
saw
,
nor
were
made
particularly
sensible
of
;
but
though
we
saw
them
not
,
our
God
did
,
and
brought
us
out
of
danger
,
before
he
brought
us
into
fear
.
Some
have
been
evident
to
us
,
and
those
so
remarkable
,
that
we
cannot
think
,
or
speak
of
them
to
this
day
,
but
our
souls
are
freshly
affected
with
those
mercies
.
It
is
recorded
of
our
famous
Jewell
,
It
were
easie
to
multiply
Examples
in
this
kind
,
Histories
abounding
with
them
;
but
I
think
there
are
few
of
us
,
but
are
furnisht
out
of
our
own
experience
abundantly
;
so
that
I
shall
rather
chuse
to
press
home
the
sense
of
these
Providences
upon
you
,
in
order
to
a
suitable
return
to
the
God
of
your
mercies
for
them
,
than
add
more
Instances
of
this
kind
.
To
this
purpose
,
I
desire
you
seriously
to
weigh
the
following
particulars
.
(
1.
)
Consider
what
you
owe
to
Providence
for
your
protection
,
by
which
your
life
hath
been
protracted
unto
this
day
,
with
the
usefulness
and
comfort
thereof
.
Look
abroad
in
the
world
,
and
you
may
daily
see
some
in
every
place
,
who
are
Objects
of
pity
,
bereaved
by
sad
accidents
of
all
the
comforts
of
life
,
The
learned
Alsted
sets
himself
to
enumerate
the
manifold
hazards
through
which
the
life
of
man
is
carrJed
in
the
hand
of
Providence
,
in
Theol.
Catechet
.
p.
191
,
192
,
&c.
and
pJously
concludes
in
these
words
,
Denique
,
qu●d
ab
innumeris
malis
,
quae
ab
omnibus
creaturis
omni
tempore
tibi
impendent
,
mirabiliter
libera●is
;
in
his
omnibus
inquam
,
quae
s●imus
●rebro
evenire
solita
,
ac
proinde
ita
se
habent
,
ut
nobis
quoque
possint
evenire
,
solam
Dei
providentiam
debes
suspicere
&
praedicare
.
whilst
in
the
mean
time
Providence
hath
tenderly
preserved
you
,
keeping
all
your
bones
,
so
that
not
one
of
them
is
broken
,
Psal.
34.
20.
Is
not
the
Elegant
and
Comely
Structure
of
thy
Body
spoiled
,
thy
members
d●storted
,
or
made
so
many
seats
of
Torment
,
the
usefulness
of
any
part
deprived
?
why
,
this
is
because
Providence
never
quitted
its
hand
of
thee
since
thou
camest
out
of
the
womb
,
but
with
a
watchful
eye
and
tender
hand
hath
guarded
thee
in
every
place
,
and
kept
thee
as
its
charge
.
(
2.
)
Consider
,
how
every
member
which
hath
been
so
tenderly
kept
,
hath
nevertheless
been
an
Instrument
of
sin
against
the
Lord
;
and
that
,
not
only
in
the
dayes
of
your
unregeneracy
,
when
ye
yJelded
your
members
as
Instruments
of
unrighteous●ess
unto
sin
,
(
as
the
Apostle
speaks
in
Rom.
6.
13.
)
but
even
since
you
gave
them
up
in
Covenant
unto
the
Lord
,
as
dedicated
Instruments
to
his
service
:
and
yet
how
tender
hath
Providence
been
over
them
!
You
have
often
provoked
him
to
afflict
you
in
every
part
,
and
lay
penal
evil
upon
every
member
that
hath
been
instrumental
in
moral
evil
;
but
O
how
great
have
his
compassions
been
towards
you
,
and
his
patience
admirable
!
(
3.
)
Consider
,
what
is
the
aim
of
Providence
in
all
the
tender
care
it
hath
manifested
for
you
;
why
doth
it
protect
you
so
assiduously
,
and
suffer
no
evil
to
befall
you
?
Is
it
not
that
you
should
imploy
your
bodies
for
God
,
and
cheerfully
apply
your selves
to
that
service
he
hath
called
you
to
?
Doubtless
,
this
is
the
end
and
level
of
these
mercies
;
for
else
to
what
purpose
are
they
afforded
you
?
Your
bodies
are
a
part
of
Christs
purchase
,
as
well
as
your
souls
,
1
Cor.
6.
19.
They
are
committed
to
the
charge
and
Tutelage
of
Angels
,
Heb.
1.
14.
who
have
performed
many
services
for
them
.
They
are
dedicated
by
your selves
to
the
Lord
,
and
that
upon
the
highest
account
,
Rom.
12.
1.
They
have
already
been
the
subjects
of
manifold
mercies
in
this
world
,
Psal.
35.
10.
and
shall
partake
of
singula●
glory
and
happiness
in
the
world
to
come
,
Phil.
3.
21.
And
shall
they
not
then
be
employed
,
yea
,
cheerfully
worn
out
in
his
service
?
How
reasonable
is
it
they
should
be
so
?
Why
are
they
so
tenderly
preserved
by
God
,
if
they
must
not
be
used
for
God
?
The
Tenth
Performance
of
Providence
.
X.
YOu
have
heard
many
and
great
things
performe●
for
you
by
Divine
Providence
,
The
Aid
and
assistance
it
gives
the
people
of
God
in
the
great
work
of
MortificatJon
.
Mortification
of
our
sinful
affections
and
passions
,
is
the
one
half
of
our
Sanctification
,
Rom.
6.
11.
dead
indeed
unto
sin
,
but
alive
unto
God
.
It
's
the
great
Evidence
of
our
Interest
in
Christ
.
See
Gal.
5.
24.
Rom.
6.
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9.
It
's
our
safety
in
the
hour
of
Temptation
.
The
corruptions
in
the
world
are
through
lust
,
2
Pet.
1.
4.
Our
Instrumental
fitness
for
service
,
depends
much
upon
it
,
2
Tim.
2.
21.
John
15.
2.
How
great
a
service
to
our
souls
therefore
must
that
be
,
by
which
this
blessed
work
is
carried
on
upon
them
?
Now
there
are
two
Means
or
Instruments
imployed
in
this
work
.
The
Spirit
,
who
effects
it
internally
,
Rom.
8.
13.
And
Providence
,
which
assists
it
externally
.
The
Spirit
indeed
is
the
principal
Agent
,
upon
whose
operation
,
the
success
of
this
work
depends
;
and
all
the
Providences
in
the
world
can
never
effect
it
without
him
.
But
these
are
secondary
and
subordinate
means
,
which
by
the
blessing
of
the
Spirit
upon
them
,
have
a
great
stroke
in
the
work
.
How
they
are
so
serviceable
to
this
end
and
purpose
,
I
shall
open
in
the
following
account
.
(
1.
)
More
generally
.
The
most
wise
God
orders
the
dispensations
of
Providence
in
a
blessed
subordination
to
the
work
of
his
Spirit
.
There
is
a
sweet
harmony
betwixt
them
in
their
distinct
workings
.
They
all
meet
in
that
one
blessed
issue
which
God
hath
by
the
counsel
of
his
Will
directed
them
to
,
Eph.
1.
11.
Rom.
8.
28.
Hence
it
is
,
that
the
Spirit
is
said
to
be
in
,
and
order
the
motions
of
the
wheels
of
Providence
,
Ezek.
1.
20.
and
so
they
move
together
by
consent
.
Now
,
one
great
part
of
the
Spirit
's
internal
work
,
being
to
destroy
sin
in
the
people
of
God
;
see
how
conformable
to
his
design
external
Providences
are
steer'd
and
order'd
in
the
following
particulars
.
(
1.
)
There
is
in
all
the
regenerate
a
strong
propension
and
inclination
to
sin
,
and
in
that
lyes
a
principal
part
of
the
power
of
sin
.
Of
this
Paul
sadly
complains
,
Rom.
7.
23.
But
I
see
another
law
in
my
members
▪
warring
against
the
law
of
my
mind
,
and
bringing
me
into
captivity
to
the
law
of
sin
,
which
is
in
my
members
:
and
every
believer
daily
●inds
it
to
his
grief
.
O
't
is
hard
,
't
is
hard
to
forbear
those
things
that
grieve
God
.
God
hath
made
an
hedge
about
us
,
and
fenced
us
against
sin
by
his
Laws
;
but
there
is
a
proneness
in
nature
to
break
over
the
hedge
,
and
that
against
the
very
reluctations
of
the
Spirit
of
God
in
us
.
Now
,
see
in
this
case
,
the
concurrence
and
assistance
of
Providence
,
for
the
prevention
of
sin
;
look
,
as
the
Spirit
internally
resists
those
sinful
inclinations
,
so
Providence
externally
layes
barrs
and
blocks
in
our
way
to
hinder
and
prevent
sin
:
and
this
is
the
meaning
of
those
places
lately
cited
,
Hosea
2.
6.
&
2
Cor.
12.
7.
So
Job
33.
17
,
18
,
19.
There
is
many
a
bodily
distemper
inflicted
on
this
very
score
,
to
be
a
clog
to
prevent
sin
:
Oh
bear
them
patiently
upon
this
consideration
.
Basil
was
●orely
grieved
with
an
inveterate
head-ach
,
he
earnestly
prayes
,
it
might
be
removed
;
God
removed
it
:
but
no
sooner
was
he
freed
of
this
clog
,
but
he
felt
the
inordinate
motions
of
lust
;
which
made
him
pray
for
his
head-ach
again
.
So
it
might
be
with
many
of
us
,
if
our
clogs
were
off
.
A
Question
may
be
moved
here
,
Whether
it
be
the
genJus
and
property
of
a
gracJous
spirit
,
to
forbear
sin
,
because
of
the
rod
of
afflictJon
?
They
have
surely
higher
motives
and
nobler
principles
than
these
.
This
is
the
temper
of
a
carnal
and
slavish
spirit
.
Indeed
it
is
so
,
when
this
is
the
sole
or
principal
restraint
from
sin
:
when
a
man
abhorrs
not
sin
,
because
of
the
intrinsick
●ilth
,
but
only
because
of
the
troublesome
consequents
and
effects
.
But
this
is
vastly
different
from
the
case
of
the
Saints
under
sanctified
afflictions
;
for
as
they
have
high●r
motives
and
nobler
principles
,
so
they
have
lower
and
more
sensible
ones
too
;
and
these
are
,
in
their
kind
and
place
,
very
useful
to
them
.
(
2.
)
Besides
,
you
must
know
,
that
afflictions
work
in
another
way
upon
gracious
hearts
to
restrain
them
from
sin
,
or
warn
them
against
sin
,
th●n
they
do
upon
others
.
It
is
not
so
much
the
smart
of
the
rod
which
they
feel
,
as
the
tokens
of
Gods
displeasure
,
which
affrights
and
scares
them
,
Job
10.
17.
Thous
renewest
thy
witnesses
against
me
,
&c.
and
this
is
that
which
principally
affects
them
.
See
Psal.
6.
1.
O
Lord
,
rebuke
me
not
in
thine
anger
,
neither
chasten
me
in
thy
hot
displeasure
:
and
Jer.
10.
24.
O
Lord
,
correct
me
,
but
with
judgement
,
not
in
thine
anger
,
lest
thou
bring
me
to
nothing
:
and
surely
this
is
no
low
and
common
argument
.
(
2.
)
Notwithstanding
this
double
sence
of
Gods
command
,
and
preventive
afflictions
,
yet
sin
is
too
hard
for
the
best
of
men
:
their
corruptions
carry
them
through
all
to
sin
.
And
when
it
is
so
,
not
only
doth
the
Spirit
work
internally
,
but
Providence
also
works
externally
in
order
to
their
reductJon
.
The
wayes
of
sin
are
not
only
made
bitter
unto
them
,
by
the
remorse
of
Conscience
,
but
by
those
afflictive
rods
upon
the
outward
man
,
with
which
God
also
follows
it
;
and
in
both
these
respects
,
I
find
that
place
expounded
,
Eccles.
10.
8.
Whoso
breaketh
an
hedge
,
a
Serpent
shall
bite
him
.
If
,
as
some
expound
it
,
the
hedge
be
the
Law
of
God
,
then
the
Serpent
is
the
remorse
of
Conscience
,
and
the
sharp
teeth
of
afflictJon
,
which
he
shall
quickly
feel
,
if
he
be
one
that
belongs
to
God
.
The
design
and
aim
of
these
afflictive
Providences
,
is
to
purge
and
cleanse
them
from
that
pollution
into
which
temptations
have
plunged
them
,
Isa.
27.
9.
By
this
shall
the
iniquity
of
Jacob
be
purged
,
and
this
is
all
the
fruit
,
to
take
away
his
sin
.
To
the
same
purpose
is
that
place
,
Psal.
119.
67.
Before
I
was
afflicted
I
went
astray
,
but
now
have
I
kept
thy
word
.
These
afflictions
have
the
same
use
and
end
to
our
souls
,
that
frosty
weather
hath
upon
those
clothes
that
are
laid
a
bleaching
;
they
alter
the
hue
,
and
make
it
whiter
,
which
seems
to
be
the
allusion
in
those
words
,
Dan.
11.
35.
And
some
of
them
of
understanding
shall
fall
to
try
them
,
and
to
purge
,
and
to
make
them
white
.
And
here
it
may
be
querJed
,
It
is
confessed
,
But
yet
,
this
hinders
not
,
but
that
a
sancti●ied
affliction
,
may
in
the
efficacy
and
vertue
of
Christs
blood
,
produce
such
blessed
effects
upon
the
soul.
Though
a
Cross
without
a
Christ
,
never
did
any
man
good
,
yet
thousands
have
been
beholden
to
the
Cross
,
as
it
hath
wrought
in
the
vertue
of
his
death
for
their
good
.
And
this
is
the
case
of
those
souls
that
this
discourse
is
concerned
about
.
(
3.
)
We
find
the
best
hearts
,
if
God
bestow
any
comfortable
enjoyment
upon
them
,
too
ap●
to
be
over-heated
in
their
affections
towards
it
▪
and
to
be
too
much
taken
up
with
these
outward
comforts
.
This
also
sheweth
the
great
power
and
strength
of
corruption
in
the
people
of
God
,
and
must
by
some
means
or
other
be
morti●ied
in
them
.
This
was
the
case
of
HezekJah
,
his
heart
was
too
much
affected
with
his
treasures
;
so
that
he
could
not
hide
a
vain-glorious
temper
,
as
you
find
Isa.
39.
2.
and
so
good
David
,
Psal.
30.
7.
he
thought
his
Mountain
,
(
i.e.
his
Kingdom
,
and
the
splendour
and
glory
of
his
present
state
)
had
stood
so
fast
,
that
it
should
never
be
moved
.
The
same
good
man
,
how
did
he
let
out
his
heart
and
affections
upon
his
beautiful
Son
Absalom
?
as
appears
by
the
doleful
lamentation
he
made
at
his
death
,
prizing
him
above
his
own
life
,
which
was
a
thousand
times
more
worth
than
he
.
So
Jonah
,
when
God
raised
up
a
Gourd
for
him
to
shelter
him
from
the
Sun
,
how
excessively
was
he
taken
with
it
,
and
was
exceedingly
glad
of
it
?
But
will
God
suffer
things
to
lye
thus
?
Shall
the
Creature
pu●●oin
,
and
draw
away
our
affections
from
him
?
No
,
this
is
our
corruption
,
and
God
will
purge
it
.
And
to
this
end
he
sends
forth
Providence
to
smite
those
Creatures
,
on
which
our
affections
are
either
inordinately
or
excessively
let
out
,
or
else
to
turn
them
into
rods
,
and
smite
us
by
them
.
●s
HezekJah
too
much
pu●●ed
up
with
his
full
Exchequer
?
Why
,
those
very
BabylonJans
to
whom
he
boasted
of
it
,
shall
empty
it
,
and
make
a
prey
of
it
,
Isa.
39.
6.
Is
David
hugging
himself
in
a
fond
conceit
of
the
stability
of
his
Earthly
Splendor
?
Lo
,
how
soon
God
beclouds
all
,
Psal.
30.
7.
Is
Absalom
doted
on
,
and
crept
too
far
into
his
good
Fathers
heart
?
this
shall
be
the
Son
of
his
sorrow
,
that
shall
seek
after
his
Fathers
life
.
Is
Jonah
so
transported
with
his
Gourd
?
God
will
prepare
a
Worm
to
smite
it
,
Jonah
4.
6
,
7.
How
many
Husbands
,
Wives
and
Children
hath
Providence
smitten
upon
this
very
account
?
It
might
have
spared
them
longer
,
if
they
had
been
loved
more
regularly
,
and
moderately
.
This
hath
blasted
many
an
Estate
,
and
hopeful
project
;
and
it
is
a
merciful
dispensation
for
our
good
.
(
4.
)
The
strength
of
our
unmortified
Corruption
shews
it self
in
our
pride
,
and
the
swelling
vanity
of
our
hearts
when
we
have
a
name
and
esteem
among
men
;
when
we
are
applauded
and
honoured
,
when
we
are
admired
for
any
gift
or
excellency
that
is
in
us
,
this
draws
forth
the
pride
of
the
heart
,
and
shews
the
vanity
that
is
in
it
.
So
you
read
,
Prov.
27.
21.
As
the
●ining
pot
for
silver
,
and
the
●urnace
for
▪
gold
,
so
is
a
man
to
his
praise
:
(
i.e.
)
as
the
●ornace
will
discover
what
dross
is
in
the
metal
when
it
is
melted
,
so
will
praise
and
commendations
,
discover
what
pride
is
in
the
heart
of
him
that
receives
them
.
This
made
a
good
man
say
,
He
that
praises
me
,
wounds
me
.
And
which
is
more
strange
,
this
corruption
may
be
felt
in
the
heart
,
even
when
the
last
breath
is
ready
to
expire
.
It
was
the
saying
of
one
of
the
German
Divines
,
when
those
about
him
recounted
for
his
encouragement
the
many
services
he
had
done
for
God
,
auferte
ignem
(
saith
he
)
adhuc
enim
paleas
habeo
.
Take
away
the
sire
,
for
there
is
still
the
chaff
of
pride
in
me
.
To
crucifie
this
corruption
Providence
takes
off
the
bridle
of
restraint
from
ungodly
men
,
and
sometimes
permits
them
to
traduce
the
names
of
Gods
servants
,
as
Shimei
did
David's
.
Yea
,
they
shall
fall
into
disesteem
among
their
friends
,
as
Paul
did
among
the
CorinthJans
;
and
all
this
to
keep
down
the
swelling
of
their
spirits
at
the
sense
of
those
excellencies
that
are
in
them
:
The
design
of
these
Providences
being
nothing
else
,
but
to
hide
pride
from
man
.
Yea
,
it
deserves
a
special
remarque
,
that
when
some
good
men
have
been
engaged
in
a
publick
and
eminent
work
,
and
have
therein
,
it
may
be
,
too
much
sought
their
own
applause
,
God
hath
withheld
usual
assistance
at
such
times
from
them
,
and
caused
them
to
salter
so
in
their
work
,
that
they
have
come
off
with
shame
and
pity
at
such
times
,
how
ready
and
presential
soever
they
have
been
at
other
times
.
It
were
easie
to
give
divers
remarkable
examples
to
confirm
this
Observation
.
But
I
pass
on
.
(
5.
)
The
corruption
of
the
heart
shews
it self
,
in
raising
up
great
expectations
to
our selves
from
the
Creature
,
and
projecting
abundance
of
felicity
and
contentment
from
some
promising
and
hopeful
enjoyments
we
have
in
the
world
.
This
we
find
to
have
been
the
case
of
holy
Job
in
the
dayes
of
his
prosperity
,
Job
28.
19.
Then
I
said
,
I
shall
dye
in
my
nest
,
I
shall
multiply
my
dayes
as
the
sand
.
But
how
soon
were
all
these
expecta●ions
dasht
by
a
gloomy
Providence
,
that
benighted
him
in
the
Noon-tide
of
his
prosperity
:
and
all
this
for
his
good
,
to
take
off
his
heart
more
fully
from
creature
expectations
.
We
often
find
,
the
best
men
to
over-reckon
themselves
in
worldly
things
,
and
over-act
their
confidences
about
them
.
They
that
have
great
and
well-grounded
expectations
from
Heaven
,
may
have
too
great
and
ungrounded
expectations
from
the
Earth
.
But
when
it
is
so
,
it
's
very
usual
for
Providence
to
undermine
their
Earthly
hopes
,
and
convince
them
by
experience
how
vain
they
are
.
Thus
Haggai
1.
9.
the
peoples
hearts
were
intently
set
upon
prosperous
Providences
,
full
Harvests
,
and
great
Increase
;
whilst
in
the
mean
while
no
regard
was
had
to
the
Worship
of
God
,
and
the
things
of
his
House
;
therefore
Providence
blasts
their
hopes
,
and
brings
them
to
little
.
(
6.
)
Corruption
discovers
it self
in
dependance
upon
Creature
comforts
,
and
sensible
props
.
Oh
how
apt
are
the
best
men
,
to
lean
upon
these
things
,
and
stay
themselves
upon
them
!
Thus
did
Israel
stay
themselves
upon
Egypt
,
as
a
feeble
man
would
lean
upon
his
staff
;
but
God
suffered
it
both
to
fail
them
,
and
wound
them
,
Ezek.
29.
6
,
7
,
8.
So
for
single
persons
,
how
apt
are
they
to
depend
upon
their
sensible
supports
?
Thus
we
lean
on
our
Relations
,
and
the
inward
thoughts
of
our
hearts
are
,
that
they
shall
be
to
us
so
many
springs
of
comfort
to
refresh
us
throughout
our
lives
;
but
God
will
shew
us
by
his
Providence
our
mistake
and
error
in
these
things
.
Thus
an
Husband
is
smitten
,
to
draw
the
soul
of
a
Wife
nearer
to
God
in
dependence
upon
him
,
1
Tim.
5.
5.
So
for
Children
,
we
are
apt
to
say
of
this
or
that
Child
,
as
Lamech
of
Noah
,
Gen.
5
.
29.
This
same
shall
comfort
us
;
but
the
wind
passes
over
these
slowers
and
they
are
withered
,
to
teach
us
,
that
our
happiness
is
not
bound
up
in
these
enjoyments
.
So
for
our
Estates
,
when
the
world
smiles
upon
us
,
and
we
have
got
a
warm
nest
,
how
do
we
prophesie
of
rest
and
peace
in
those
acquisitions
,
minding
,
with
good
Baruch
,
great
things
for
our selves
;
but
Providence
by
a
particular
or
general
calamity
over-turns
our
projects
,
as
Jer.
45.
4
,
5.
and
all
this
to
reduce
our
hearts
from
the
Creature
,
to
God
our
only
rest
.
(
7.
)
Corruption
discovers
its
strength
in
good
men
,
by
their
adherence
to
things
below
,
and
lothness
to
go
hence
.
This
often
proceeds
from
the
engaging
enjoyments
and
pleasant
fruitions
we
have
here
below
.
Providence
morti●ies
this
inclination
in
the
Saints
,
(
1.
)
By
killing
those
ensnaring
comforts
before-hand
,
making
all
or
most
of
our
pleasant
things
to
dye
before
us
.
(
2.
)
By
imbittering
this
world
to
us
,
by
the
troubles
of
it
,
(
3.
)
By
making
life
undesirable
,
through
the
pains
and
infirmities
we
feel
in
the
body
,
and
so
loosing
our
root
,
in
order
to
our
more
easie
fall
by
the
fatal
stroke
.
And
thus
I
have
finished
the
Second
General
Head
;
but
before
I
pass
from
this
,
I
cannot
but
make
a
pause
,
and
desire
you
with
me
,
to
stand
in
an
holy
amazement
,
and
wonder
at
the
dealings
of
God
with
such
poor
worms
as
we
are
!
Surely
God
deals
familiarly
with
men
!
his
condescensions
to
his
own
clay
are
astonishing
!
All
that
I
shall
note
at
present
about
it
,
shall
be
under
these
three
heads
,
wherein
I
find
the
matter
of
my
present
meditations
summed
up
by
the
Psalmist
,
Psal.
144.
3.
Lord
what
is
man
,
that
thou
t●kest
knowledge
of
him
?
or
the
son
of
man
,
that
thou
makest
account
of
him
?
And
in
this
Scripture
you
have
represented
,
The
immense
and
transcendent
goodness
of
God
,
who
is
infinitely
above
us
and
all
our
thoughts
,
Job
11.
7
,
8
,
9.
Canst
thou
by
searching
,
find
out
God
?
canst
thou
find
out
the
Almighty
unto
perfection
?
It
is
as
high
as
Heaven
;
what
canst
thou
do
?
deeper
than
Hell
;
what
canst
thou
know
?
The
measure
thereof
is
longer
than
the
Earth
,
and
broader
than
the
Sea
.
2
Chron.
2.
6.
The
Heaven
and
Heaven
of
Heavens
cannot
contain
him
.
Exod.
15.
11.
He
is
glorious
in
holiness
,
fearful
in
praises
,
doing
wonders
.
When
the
Scripture
speaks
of
him
comparatively
,
see
how
it
expresses
his
greatness
,
Isa.
40.
15
,
16
,
17.
Behold
the
Nations
are
as
the
drop
of
a
bucket
,
and
are
counted
as
the
small
dust
of
the
balance
:
behold
he
taketh
up
the
Isles
as
a
very
little
thing
.
And
Lebanon
is
not
sufficient
to
burn
,
nor
the
Beasts
thereof
sufficient
for
a
burnt-offering
.
All
Nations
before
him
are
as
nothing
,
and
they
are
accounted
to
him
less
than
nothing
and
vanity
.
When
the
holJest
men
have
addrest
themselves
to
him
,
see
with
what
humility
and
deep
adoratJon
they
have
spoken
of
him
and
to
him
!
Isa.
6.
5.
Wo
is
me
for
I
am
undone
,
because
I
am
a
man
of
unclean
lips
,
and
I
dwell
in
the
midst
of
a
people
of
unclean
lips
;
for
mine
eyes
have
seen
the
King
the
Lord
of
Hosts
.
Nay
,
what
aspects
the
very
Angels
of
Heaven
have
of
that
glorJous
Majesty
,
you
may
see
,
Ver.
2
,
3.
Each
one
had
six
wings
,
with
twain
●e
covered
his
face
,
and
with
twain
he
covered
his
feet
,
and
with
twain
be
did
fly
.
And
one
cryed
unto
another
,
and
said
,
Holy
,
holy
,
holy
is
the
Lord
of
Hosts
;
the
whole
Earth
is
full
of
his
glory
.
The
baseness
,
vileness
and
utter
unworthiness
of
Man
,
yea
,
the
holiest
and
best
of
men
before
God
,
Psal.
39.
5.
Verily
every
man
,
at
his
best
estate
,
is
altogether
vanity
.
Every
man
,
take
where
you
will
:
and
every
man
in
his
best
estate
,
or
standing
in
his
freshest
glory
,
is
,
not
only
vanity
,
but
altogether
vanity
.
Col
Adam
col
Hebel
,
every
man
●s
every
vanity
.
For
do
but
consider
the
best
of
men
in
their
ExtractJon
,
in
their
ConstitutJon
,
and
in
their
outward
ConditJon
.
(
1.
)
In
their
ExtractJon
,
Eph.
2.
3.
By
nature
Children
of
wrath
even
as
others
.
The
blood
that
●uns
in
our
veins
,
is
as
much
tainted
as
theirs
in
Hell
.
(
2.
)
Consider
them
in
their
ConstitutJon
and
●atural
temper
,
and
it
is
no
better
,
yea
,
in
many
a
worse
temper
than
in
Reprobates
:
and
though
grace
depose
sin
in
them
from
the
Throne
;
yet
▪
Oh
what
offensive
and
God
provoking
corruptions
daily
break
out
of
the
best
hearts
!
(
3.
)
Consider
them
in
their
outward
ConditJon
,
●nd
they
are
inferiour
(
for
the
most
part
)
to
others
,
1
Cor.
1.
26
,
27
,
28
,
&c.
and
Matth.
1.
25.
I
thank
thee
O
Father
(
saith
Christ
)
that
●ou
hast
hid
these
things
from
the
Wise
and
Prudent
,
●nd
hast
revealed
them
unto
Babes
.
And
now
let
us
consider
and
admire
,
that
ever
his
great
and
blessed
God
should
be
so
much
●●ncerned
as
you
have
heard
he
is
in
all
his
Pro●●dences
about
such
vile
despicable
Worms
as
●●e
are
!
He
needs
us
not
,
but
is
perfectly
blessed
●nd
happy
in
himself
without
us
.
We
can
add
●othing
to
him
,
Job
.
22.
2.
Can
a
man
be
profitable
God
?
No
,
the
holiest
of
men
add
nothing
to
him
;
yet
,
see
how
great
account
he
makes
of
us
.
For
,
Doth
not
his
eternal
electing
love
bespeak
the
dear
account
he
made
of
us
,
Eph.
1.
4
,
5.
How
ancient
,
how
free
,
and
how
astonishing
is
this
act
of
grace
!
This
is
that
design
which
all
Providences
are
in
pursuit
of
,
and
will
not
rest
till
they
have
executed
.
Doth
not
the
gift
of
his
only
Son
out
of
his
bosome
speak
this
truth
,
That
God
makes
great
account
of
this
vile
thing
Man
?
Never
was
man
so
magnified
before
.
If
David
could
say
,
Psal.
8.
●
.
When
I
consider
the
Heavens
the
work
of
thy
hands
,
the
Moon
and
Stars
which
thou
hast
ordained
,
Lord
,
what
is
man
?
How
much
more
may
we
say
?
when
we
consider
thy
Son
,
that
lay
in
thy
bosome
,
his
infinite
excellency
,
and
unspeakable
dearness
to
thee
;
Lord
,
what
is
man
,
that
such
a
Christ
should
be
delivered
to
death
for
him
!
for
him
,
and
not
for
fallen
Angels
!
Heb.
2.
16.
for
him
when
in
a
state
of
enmity
with
God!
Rom.
5.
8.
Doth
not
the
assiduity
of
his
Providential
care
for
us
,
speak
his
esteem
of
us
?
Isa.
27.
3.
〈◊〉
any
hurt
it
,
I
will
keep
it
night
and
day
.
H●
withdraweth
not
his
eye
from
the
righteous
,
Job
▪
36.
7.
no
,
not
a
moment
all
their
dayes
;
for
did
he
so
,
a
thousand
mischiefs
in
that
moment
woul●
rush
in
upon
him
,
and
ruine
him
.
Doth
not
the
tenderness
of
his
Providenc●
speak
his
esteem
of
us
?
Isa.
66.
13.
as
one
whom
his
Mother
comforteth
,
so
will
I
comfort
you
.
He
comforts
his
(
viz.
by
refreshing
Providences
)
a●
an
indulgent
Mother
her
tender
Child
.
So
Isa
▪
31.
5.
As
birds
flying
,
viz.
to
their
nests
,
when
their
young
are
in
danger
,
so
he
defends
his
.
No
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
tenderness
in
the
Creature
can
shadow
forth
the
tender
bowels
of
the
Creator
.
Doth
not
the
variety
of
the
fruits
of
his
Providence
speak
it
?
Lam.
3.
23.
Our
mercJes
are
new
every
morning
.
See
Psal.
40.
5.
It
is
a
fountain
from
which
do
stream
forth
spiritual
and
temporal
,
ordinary
and
extraordinary
,
publick
and
personal
mercies
,
mercies
without
number
.
Doth
not
the
ministration
of
Angels
in
the
Providential
Kingdom
speak
it
?
Heb.
1.
ult.
Are
they
not
all
ministring
spirits
sent
forth
,
&c.
Doth
not
the
Providence
,
which
this
day
calls
us
to
celebrate
the
memory
of
,
Purim
,
Esth.
9.
27
,
28.
and
the
rather
,
because
we
seem
now
to
be
as
near
danger
by
the
same
Enemy
as
ever
since
that
time
:
and
if
such
a
mercy
as
this
be
forgotten
,
God
may
say
as
Judges
10.
13.
I
will
deliver
you
no
more
.
The
Fourth
General
Head
.
LEt
us
next
(
according
to
our
method
proposed
)
proceed
to
shew
,
in
what
manner
we
are
to
reflect
upon
the
performances
of
Providence
for
us
.
And
certainly
,
it
is
not
every
slight
and
transient
glance
,
nor
every
cold
,
historical
,
unaffecting
rehearsal
,
or
recognition
of
his
Providences
towards
you
,
that
will
pass
with
God
,
for
a
discharge
of
this
great
duty
.
No
,
no
,
it
is
another
manner
of
business
than
the
most
of
men
understand
it
to
be
.
O
that
we
were
but
acquainted
with
this
heavenly
spiritual
exercise
!
how
sweet
would
it
make
our
lives
!
how
light
would
it
make
our
burdens
!
Ah
Sirs
!
you
live
estranged
from
the
pleasure
of
the
Christian
life
,
while
you
live
in
the
ignorance
or
neglect
of
this
duty
.
Now
to
lead
you
up
to
this
heavenly
,
sweet
and
profitable
exercise
,
I
will
beg
your
attention
to
the
following
Directions
.
The
First
Direction
.
LAbour
to
get
as
full
and
through
recognitJons
of
the
Providences
of
God
about
you
from
first
to
last
,
as
you
are
able
.
O
fill
your
hearts
with
the
thoughts
of
him
and
his
wayes
.
If
a
single
act
of
Providence
be
so
ravishing
and
transporting
,
what
would
many
such
be
,
if
they
were
presented
together
to
the
view
of
the
soul
?
If
one
Star
be
so
beautiful
to
behold
,
what
is
a
ConstellatJon
?
Let
your
reflections
therefore
upon
the
acts
and
workings
of
Providence
for
you
,
be
full
extensively
and
intensively
.
(
1.
)
Let
them
be
as
extensively
full
as
may
be
▪
Search
backward
into
all
the
performances
of
Providence
throughout
your
lives
.
So
did
Asaph
in
Psal.
77.
11
,
12.
I
will
remember
the
works
of
the
Lord
:
surely
I
will
remember
thy
wonders
of
old
:
I
will
meditate
of
all
thy
works
,
and
talk
of
thy
doings
.
He
laboured
to
recover
and
revive
the
ancient
Providences
of
God
,
mercies
many
years
past
,
and
suck
a
fresh
sweetness
out
of
them
by
new
reviews
of
them
.
Ah
Sirs
,
let
me
tell
you
,
there
is
not
such
a
pleasant
History
for
you
to
read
in
all
the
world
,
as
the
History
of
your
own
lives
,
if
you
would
but
sit
down
,
and
record
to
your selves
from
the
beginning
hitherto
,
what
God
hath
been
to
you
,
and
done
for
you
;
what
signal
manifestations
,
and
out-breakings
of
his
mercy
,
faithfulness
and
love
,
there
have
been
in
all
the
conditions
you
have
past
through
:
if
your
hearts
do
not
melt
before
you
have
gone
half
through
that
History
,
they
are
hard
hearts
indeed
.
My
father
,
the
guide
of
my
youth
.
(
2.
)
Let
them
be
as
intensively
full
as
may
be
.
Let
not
your
thoughts
swim
like
feathers
upon
the
surface
of
the
waters
,
but
sink
like
lead
to
the
bottom
.
The
works
of
the
Lord
are
great
,
sought
out
of
them
that
have
pleasur●
therein
,
Psal.
111.
2.
Not
that
I
think
it
feasible
to
sound
the
depth
of
Providence
by
our
short
line
,
Psal.
77.
19.
Thy
way
is
in
the
sea
,
and
thy
path
in
the
great
waters
,
and
thy
footsteps
are
not
known
;
but
it
's
our
duty
to
dive
as
far
as
we
can
;
and
to
admire
the
depth
,
when
we
cannot
touch
the
bottom
.
It
is
in
our
viewing
Providences
,
as
it
was
with
Elijah's
servant
,
when
he
looked
out
for
rain
,
1
Kings
18.
44.
he
went
out
once
and
viewed
the
Heavens
,
and
saw
nothing
;
but
the●
Prophet
bids
him
go
again
and
again
,
●and
look
upon
the
face
of
Heaven
seven
times
;
and
when
he
had
done
so
,
what
now
,
saith
the
Prophet
?
O
now
,
saith
he
,
I
see
a
cloud
rising
like
a
mans
hand
;
and
then
,
keeping
his
eye
upon
it
intent
,
he
sees
the
whole
face
of
Heaven
covered
with
clouds
.
So
you
may
look
upon
some
Providences
once
and
again
,
and
see
little
or
nothing
in
them
;
but
look
seven
times
,
(
i.
e.
)
meditate
often
upon
it
,
and
you
shall
see
its
increasing
glory
,
like
that
increasing
cloud
.
There
are
divers
things
to
be
distinctly
pondered
,
and
valued
in
one
single
Providence
,
before
you
can
judge
the
amount
and
worth
of
it
:
as
(
1.
)
The
seasonableness
of
mercy
may
give
it
a
very
great
value
.
When
it
shall
be
timed
so
opportunely
,
and
●all
out
in
such
a
nick
,
as
may
make
it
a
thousand
fold
more
considerable
to
you
than
the
same
mercy
would
have
been
at
another
time
.
Thus
when
our
wants
are
suffered
to
grow
to
an
extremity
,
and
all
visible
hopes
●ail
,
then
to
have
relief
given
in
,
wonderfully
enhances
the
price
of
such
a
mercy
,
Isa.
41.
17
,
18.
(
2.
)
The
peculJar
care
and
kindness
of
Providence
to
us
,
is
a
consideration
which
exceedingly
heightens
the
mercy
in
it self
,
and
endears
it
to
us
.
So
,
when
in
general
calamities
upon
the
world
,
w●
are
exempted
by
the
favour
of
Providence
,
covered
under
its
wings
;
when
God
shall
call
to
us
in
evil
dayes
,
Come
my
people
,
enter
thou
into
thy
chambers
,
as
it
is
in
Isa.
26.
20
,
21.
When
such
Promises
shall
be
fulfilled
to
us
in
times
of
want
and
famine
,
as
Psal.
33.
18
,
19.
When
others
are
abandoned
and
exposed
to
misery
,
who
have
every
way
as
much
,
it
may
be
much
more
visible
security
against
it
;
and
yet
they
delivered
up
,
and
we
saved
:
Oh
,
how
endearing
are
such
Providences
!
Psal.
91.
7
,
8.
(
3.
)
The
Introductiveness
of
a
Providence
,
is
of
special
regard
and
consideration
,
and
by
no
means
to
be
neglected
by
us
.
There
are
leading
Providences
,
which
how
slight
and
trivial
soever
they
may
seem
in
themselves
,
yet
in
this
respect
justly
challenge
the
first
rank
among
Providential
favours
to
us
;
because
they
usher
in
a
multitude
of
other
mercies
,
and
draw
a
blessed
train
of
happy
consequences
after
them
.
Such
a
Providence
was
that
of
Jesse's
sending
David
with
provisions
to
his
Brethren
that
lay
encamped
in
the
Army
,
1
Sam.
17.
17.
And
thus
every
Christian
may
furnish
himself
out
of
his
own
stock
of
Experience
,
if
he
will
but
reflect
,
and
consider
,
the
Place
where
he
is
,
the
Relations
that
he
hath
,
and
the
Way
by
which
he
was
led
into
them
.
(
4.
)
The
Instruments
imployed
by
Providence
for
you
,
are
of
special
consideration
.
And
the
finger
of
God
is
clearly
seen
by
us
when
we
pursue
●hat
meditation
.
For
,
Sometimes
great
mercies
shall
be
conveyed
to
us
by
very
improbable
means
,
and
more
probable
ones
laid
aside
.
A
stranger
shall
be
stirred
up
to
do
that
for
you
,
which
your
near
relations
in
nature
had
no
power
or
will
to
do
for
you
.
Jonathan
,
a
meer
stranger
to
David
,
clave
closer
to
him
,
and
was
more
friendly
and
useful
to
him
,
than
his
own
Brethren
,
who
despised
and
slighted
him
.
Ministers
have
found
more
kindness
and
respect
from
strangers
,
than
their
own
people
that
are
more
obliged
to
them
,
Mark
6.
4.
A
Prophet
(
saith
Christ
)
is
not
without
honour
,
save
in
his
own
Countrey
,
and
among
his
own
Kin
,
and
in
his
own
House
.
Sometimes
by
the
hands
of
EnemJes
,
as
well
as
Strangers
,
Rev.
12.
16.
The
Earth
helped
the
Woman
.
God
hath
bowed
the
hearts
of
many
wicked
men
,
to
shew
great
kindness
to
his
people
,
Acts
28.
2.
Sometimes
God
makes
use
of
Instruments
for
good
to
his
people
,
who
designed
nothing
but
evil
and
mischief
to
them
.
Thus
Joseph's
Brethren
were
instrumental
to
his
advancement
,
in
that
very
thing
,
wherein
they
designed
his
ruine
,
Gen.
50.
20.
(
5.
)
The
design
and
scope
of
Providence
must
not
e●●ape
our
through
consideration
,
what
the
aim
and
level
of
Providence
is
.
And
truly
this
,
of
all
others
,
is
the
most
warming
and
melting
consideration
.
You
have
the
general
account
of
the
aim
of
all
Providences
,
in
Rom.
8.
28.
And
we
know
that
all
things
work
together
for
good
,
to
them
that
love
God
.
A
thousand
friendly
hands
are
at
work
for
them
,
to
promote
and
bring
about
their
happiness
.
O
,
this
is
enough
to
sweeten
the
bitterest
Providence
to
us
,
that
we
know
it
shall
turn
to
our
salvation
,
Phil.
1.
19.
(
6.
)
The
respect
and
relatJon
Providence
bears
to
our
prayers
,
is
of
singular
consideration
,
and
a
most
taking
and
sweet
meditation
.
Prayer
honours
Providence
,
and
Providence
honours
Prayer
.
Great
notice
is
taken
of
this
in
Scripture
,
Gen.
24.
45.
Dan.
9.
20.
Acts
12.
12.
You
have
had
the
very
PetitJons
you
asked
of
him
.
Providences
have
born
the
very
signatures
of
your
Prayers
upon
them
.
O
how
affectingly
sweet
are
such
mercies
!
The
Second
Direction
.
IN
all
your
Observations
of
Providence
,
have
a
special
respect
to
that
Word
of
God
,
which
is
fulfilled
and
made
good
to
you
thereby
.
This
is
a
clear
truth
,
that
all
Providences
have
relation
to
the
written
Word
.
Thus
Solomon
in
his
prayer
,
acknowledges
,
that
the
Promises
and
Providences
of
God
went
along
step
by
step
with
his
Father
David
all
his
dayes
;
and
that
his
hand
(
put
there
for
his
Providence
)
had
fulfilled
whatever
his
mouth
had
spoken
,
●
Kings
8.
24.
So
Joshuah
in
like
manner
acknowledges
,
that
not
one
good
thing
had
failed
,
of
all
the
good
things
which
the
Lord
had
spoken
,
Jos.
23.
14.
He
had
carefully
observed
what
relation
the
Works
of
God
had
to
his
Word
.
He
compared
them
together
,
and
found
an
exact
harmony
.
And
so
may
you
too
,
if
you
will
compare
them
as
he
did
.
This
I
shall
the
more
insist
upon
,
because
it
is
by
some
Interpreters
supposed
to
be
the
very
Scope
of
the
Text.
For
(
as
was
noted
in
the
Explication
)
they
supply
and
fill
the
sense
with
quae
promisit
,
the
things
which
he
hath
promised
;
and
so
read
the
Text
thus
,
I
will
cry
unto
God
most
high
,
to
God
who
performeth
the
things
he
hath
promised
,
for
me
.
Now
though
I
see
no
reason
to
limit
the
sense
so
narrowly
,
yet
it
cannot
be
denyed
,
but
this
is
an
especial
part
of
its
intendment
.
Let
us
therefore
in
all
our
reviews
of
Providence
,
consider
,
what
word
of
God
,
whether
it
be
of
threatning
,
caution
,
counsel
,
or
promise
is
at
any
time
made
good
to
us
by
his
Providences
.
And
hereby
a
twofold
excellent
advantage
will
result
to
us
.
(
1.
)
This
will
greatly
confirm
to
us
the
truth
of
the
Scripture
,
when
we
shall
see
its
truth
so
manifest
in
the
events
.
Certainly
had
Scripture
no
other
seal
or
attestation
,
this
alone
would
be
an
unanswerable
Argument
of
its
divinity
.
When
men
shall
find
in
all
ages
the
works
of
God
wrought
so
exactly
according
to
this
model
,
that
we
may
say
,
As
we
have
read
or
heard
,
so
have
we
seen
.
O
how
great
a
con●irmation
is
here
before
our
eyes
!
(
2.
)
This
will
abundantly
direct
and
instruct
us
in
our
present
duties
under
all
Providences
.
We
shall
know
hereby
what
we
have
to
do
,
and
how
to
carry
our selves
under
all
changes
of
conditions
.
You
can
learn
the
voice
and
●rrand
of
the
rod
only
from
the
Word
,
Psal.
94.
12.
The
Word
interprets
the
works
of
God
.
Providences
in
themselves
,
are
not
a
perfect
guide
.
They
often
puzzle
and
entangle
our
thoughts
;
but
bring
them
to
the
Word
,
and
your
duty
will
be
quickly
manifested
,
as
Psal.
73.
16
,
17.
Vntil
I
went
into
the
Sanctuary
,
then
I
understood
their
end
:
and
,
not
only
their
end
;
but
his
own
duty
,
to
be
quiet
in
an
afflicted
condition
,
and
not
envy
their
prosperity
.
Well
then
,
bring
those
Providences
you
have
past
through
,
or
are
now
under
,
to
the
Word
;
and
you
will
find
your selves
surrounded
with
a
marvellous
light
;
and
see
the
verification
of
the
Scriptures
in
them
.
I
shall
therefore
here
appeal
to
your
consciences
,
whether
you
have
not
found
these
Events
of
Providence
falling
out
agreeably
in
all
respects
with
the
Word
.
The
Word
tells
you
,
that
it
is
your
Wisdom
and
Interest
,
to
keep
close
to
its
rules
,
and
the
duties
it
prescribes
,
that
the
way
of
holiness
and
obedience
,
is
the
wisest
way
,
Deut.
4.
5
,
6.
This
is
your
wisdom
.
Now
,
let
the
events
of
Providence
speak
,
whether
this
be
true
or
not
.
Certainly
it
will
appear
to
be
so
,
whether
we
respect
our
present
comfort
,
or
future
happiness
,
both
which
we
may
see
daily
exposed
by
departure
from
duty
,
and
secured
by
keeping
close
to
it
.
Let
the
question
be
asked
of
the
Drunkard
,
Adulterer
,
or
prophane
Swearer
,
when
by
sin
they
have
ruined
body
,
soul
,
estate
and
name
,
whether
it
be
their
wisdom
to
walk
in
those
forbidden
paths
after
their
own
lusts
?
Whether
they
had
not
better
consulted
their
own
interest
and
comfort
,
in
keeping
within
the
bounds
and
limits
of
Gods
commands
?
and
they
cannot
but
confess
,
that
this
their
way
is
their
folly
.
What
fruit
(
saith
the
Apostle
)
had
ye
in
those
things
,
whereof
you
are
now
ashamed
?
for
the
end
of
those
things
is
death
,
Rom.
6.
21.
Doth
not
the
Providence
of
God
verifie
upon
them
those
threatnings
that
are
written
,
in
the
experience
of
all
ages
?
Prov.
23.
29.
Prov.
23.
21.
Prov.
5.
9.
Job
31.
12.
Prov.
5.
10.
all
which
woes
and
miseries
they
escape
,
that
walk
in
Gods
Statutes
.
Look
upon
the
ruined
estates
and
bodies
you
may
every
where
see
,
and
behold
the
truth
of
the
Scriptures
evidently
made
good
in
those
sad
Providences
.
The
Word
tells
you
,
that
your
departure
from
the
way
of
integrity
and
simplicity
,
to
make
use
of
sinful
policies
,
shall
never
profit
you
,
1
Sam.
12.
21.
Prov.
3.
5.
Let
the
Events
of
Providence
speak
to
this
also
;
ask
your
own
experience
,
and
you
shall
have
a
full
confirmation
of
this
truth
.
Did
you
ever
leave
the
way
of
simplicity
and
integrity
,
and
use
sinful
shifts
,
to
bring
about
your
own
designs
,
and
prosper
in
that
way
?
Certainly
God
hath
cursed
all
the
wayes
of
sin
;
and
whoever
finds
them
to
thrive
with
them
,
his
people
shall
not
.
Israel
would
not
rely
upon
the
Lord
,
but
trust
in
the
shadow
of
Egypt
;
and
what
advantage
had
they
by
this
sinful
policy
?
See
Isa.
30.
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5.
David
used
a
great
deal
of
sinful
policy
to
cover
his
wicked
fact
;
but
did
it
prosper
?
See
2
Sam.
12.
12.
It
is
an
excellent
note
of
Livy
,
ConsilJa
callida
,
primâ
specJe
l●ta
,
tractata
dura
,
eventu
tristJa
.
Sinful
policies
in
their
first
appearances
,
are
pleasant
and
promising
,
in
their
management
difficult
,
in
their
event
sad
.
Some
by
sinful
wayes
have
gotten
wealth
;
but
that
Scripture
hath
been
verified
in
their
experience
,
Prov.
10.
2.
Treasures
of
wickedness
profit
nothing
.
Either
God
hath
blown
upon
it
by
a
secret
curse
,
that
it
hath
done
them
no
good
,
or
given
them
such
disquietness
in
their
consciences
,
that
they
have
been
forced
to
vomit
it
up
,
e're
they
could
find
peace
,
Job
11.
13
,
14
,
15.
That
which
David
gave
in
charge
to
Solomon
,
hath
been
found
experimentally
true
by
thousands
,
1
Chron.
22.
12
,
13.
That
the
true
way
to
prosperity
,
is
to
keep
close
to
the
rule
of
the
Word
.
And
that
the
true
reason
why
men
cannot
prosper
,
is
their
forsaking
that
rule
,
2
Chron.
24.
20.
It
's
true
,
if
God
have
a
purpose
to
destroy
a
man
,
he
may
for
a
time
suffer
him
to
succeed
and
prosper
in
his
sin
,
for
his
greater
hardening
,
Job
12.
6.
But
it
is
not
so
with
those
whom
the
Lord
loves
;
their
sinful
shi●ts
shall
never
thrive
with
them
.
The
World
prohibits
your
trust
and
con●idenc●
in
the
Creature
,
even
the
greatest
and
most
powerful
among
Creatures
,
Psal.
14
6.
3.
It
tells
us
,
that
't
is
better
to
trust
in
the
Lord
,
than
in
th●m
,
Psal.
118.
8.
It
forbids
our
con●idence
in
those
Creatures
that
are
most
nearly
ally'd
,
and
related
in
the
bonds
of
nature
to
us
,
Micah
7.
5.
It
curseth
the
man
that
gives
that
relyance
to
the
Creature
,
which
is
due
to
God
,
Jer.
17.
5.
Consult
the
Events
of
Providence
in
this
case
,
and
see
,
whether
the
Word
be
not
verified
therein
?
Did
you
ever
lean
upon
an
EgyptJan
reed
,
and
it
did
not
break
under
you
,
and
pierce
as
well
as
deceive
you
?
O
how
often
hath
this
been
evident
in
our
experience
!
Whatsoever
we
have
over-loved
,
idolized
,
My
mountain
shall
stand
strong
,
I
shall
not
be
moved
;
the
next
news
he
shall
hear
,
is
of
darkness
and
trouble
,
Psal.
30.
6
,
7.
O
how
true
and
faithful
do
we
find
these
sayings
of
God
to
be
!
Who
cannot
put
to
his
seal
,
and
say
,
Thy
words
are
truth
?
The
Word
assures
us
,
that
sin
is
the
Cause
and
Inlet
of
Affliction
and
Sorrow
,
and
that
there
is
an
inseparable
connection
betwixt
them
,
Numb.
32.
23.
Be
sure
your
sin
will
find
you
out
:
(
i.
e.
)
the
sad
effects
and
afflictions
that
follow
it
shall
●ind
you
out
.
So
Psal.
89.
30
,
31
,
32.
If
his
sons
forsake
my
Law
,
I
will
visit
their
iniquitJes
with
rods
.
Enquire
now
at
the
mouth
of
Providence
,
whether
this
be
indeed
so
,
according
to
the
reports
of
the
Word
.
Ask
but
your
own
Experiences
,
and
you
shall
find
,
that
just
so
Providence
hath
ordered
it
all
along
your
way
.
When
did
you
grow
into
a
secure
,
vain
,
carnal
frame
,
but
you
found
some
rouzing
,
startling
Providence
sent
to
awaken
you
?
When
did
you
wound
your
Consciences
with
guilt
,
and
God
did
not
wound
you
for
it
,
in
some
or
other
of
your
beloved
enjoyments
?
Nay
,
so
ordinary
is
this
with
God
,
that
from
the
observations
of
their
own
frames
and
wayes
,
many
Christians
have
fore-boded
and
pre●aged
troubles
at
hand
.
I
do
not
say
,
that
God
never
afflicts
his
people
,
but
for
their
sin
;
for
he
may
do
it
for
their
tryal
,
1
Pet.
4.
12.
Nor
do
I
say
,
that
God
follows
every
sin
with
a
rod
;
for
who
then
should
stand
before
him
?
Psal.
130.
3.
But
this
I
say
,
that
it's
Gods
usual
way
,
to
visit
the
sins
of
his
people
with
rods
of
affliction
,
and
this
in
mercy
to
their
souls
.
Upon
this
account
it
was
,
that
the
rod
of
God
was
upon
David
in
a
long
succession
of
troubles
upon
his
Kingdom
and
family
,
after
that
great
prevarication
of
his
,
2
Sam.
12.
10.
And
if
we
would
carefully
search
out
the
seeds
and
principles
of
those
miseries
under
which
we
or
ours
do
groan
;
we
should
find
them
to
be
our
own
turnings
aside
from
the
Lord
,
according
to
that
Jer.
2.
19.
and
Jer.
4.
18.
Have
not
all
these
cautions
,
and
threatnings
of
the
Word
been
exactly
fulfilled
by
Providence
in
your
own
experience
?
Who
can
but
see
the
infallible
truth
of
God
in
all
that
he
hath
threatned
!
And
no
less
evident
is
the
truth
of
the
Promises
to
all
that
will
observe
how
Providence
makes
them
good
every
day
to
us
;
for
consider
,
How
great
security
God
hath
given
to
his
people
in
the
Promises
,
that
no
man
shall
lose
any
thing
by
self-denyal
for
his
sake
.
He
hath
told
us
,
Mark
10.
29
,
30.
Verily
,
I
say
unto
you
,
there
is
no
man
that
hath
left
House
,
or
Brethren
,
or
Sisters
,
or
Father
,
or
Mother
,
or
Wife
,
or
Children
,
or
Lands
for
my
sake
,
and
the
Gospels
;
but
he
shall
receive
an
hundred
fold
now
in
this
time
,
houses
,
and
Brethren
and
Sisters
,
and
Mothers
,
and
Children
,
and
Lands
with
persecutions
,
and
in
the
world
to
come
Eternal
life
.
Though
that
vile
Apostate
JulJan
derided
this
Promise
,
yet
thousands
and
ten
thousands
have
experienced
it
,
and
do
at
this
day
stand
ready
to
set
their
seal
to
it
.
God
hath
made
it
good
to
his
people
,
not
only
in
spirituals
;
inward
joy
,
and
peace
;
but
even
in
Temporals
also
:
instead
of
natural
relations
who
took
care
for
them
before
,
hundreds
of
ChristJans
shall
stand
ready
to
assist
and
help
them
:
So
that
though
they
have
left
all
for
Christ
,
yet
they
may
say
with
the
Apostle
,
2
Cor.
6.
10.
As
having
nothing
,
and
yet
possessing
all
things
.
O
the
admirable
care
and
tenderness
of
Providence
over
those
that
for
Conscience
sake
have
lest
all
,
and
cast
themselves
upon
its
immediate
care
!
Are
there
not
at
this
day
to
be
found
many
so
provided
for
,
even
to
the
envy
of
their
Enemies
,
and
their
own
admiration
?
Who
sees
not
the
faithfulness
of
God
in
the
Promises
,
that
hath
but
an
heart
to
trust
God
in
them
!
The
Word
of
Promise
assures
us
,
that
whatever
wants
or
straits
the
Saints
●all
into
,
their
God
will
never
leave
them
,
nor
forsake
them
,
Heb.
13.
5.
that
he
will
be
with
them
in
trouble
,
Alsted
.
Theol.
●
techet
.
P.
19●
.
Psal.
91.
15.
Consult
the
various
Providences
of
your
life
in
this
point
,
and
I
doubt
not
,
but
you
will
find
the
truth
of
these
Promises
as
often
confirmed
,
as
you
have
been
in
trouble
.
Ask
your
own
hearts
,
where
,
or
when
was
it
that
your
God
forsook
you
,
and
left
you
to
sink
and
perish
under
your
burdens
?
I
doubt
not
,
but
most
of
you
have
been
at
one
time
or
other
plunged
in
difficulties
,
difficulties
out
of
which
you
could
see
no
way
of
escape
by
the
eye
of
reason
;
yea
,
such
,
as
it
may
be
,
staggered
your
faith
in
the
Promise
,
as
David's
was
,
1
Sam.
27.
1.
when
he
said
,
I
shall
one
day
perish
by
the
hand
of
Saul
.
All
men
are
Lyars
,
(
even
Samuel
himself
)
and
yet
notwithstanding
all
,
we
see
him
emerge
out
of
that
Sea
of
trouble
,
and
the
Promises
made
good
in
every
tittle
to
him
.
The
like
doubtless
you
may
observe
in
your
own
cases
.
Ask
your
own
souls
the
question
,
and
they
will
satisfie
it
.
Did
God
abandon
and
cast
you
off
in
the
day
of
your
straits
?
certainly
you
must
belye
your
own
experience
,
if
you
should
say
so
.
'T
is
true
,
there
have
been
some
plunges
and
difficulties
you
have
met
with
,
wherein
(
1.
)
You
could
see
no
way
of
escape
,
but
concluded
you
must
perish
in
them
.
(
2.
)
Difficulties
that
have
staggered
your
faith
in
the
Promises
,
and
made
you
doubt
,
whether
the
fountain
of
All-sufficiency
would
let
out
it self
for
your
relief
.
(
3.
)
Yea
,
such
difficulties
as
have
provoked
you
to
murmuring
and
impatience
,
and
thereby
provoked
the
Lord
to
forsake
you
in
your
straits
;
but
yet
you
see
he
did
not
.
He
hath
either
(
1.
)
Strengthened
your
back
to
bear
,
or
(
2.
)
Lightened
your
burden
,
or
(
3.
)
Opened
an
unexpected
door
of
escape
,
according
to
that
Promise
,
1
Cor.
10.
13.
so
that
the
evil
which
you
feared
,
came
not
upon
you
.
You
read
,
that
the
Word
of
God
is
the
only
support
and
relief
to
a
gracious
soul
in
the
dark
day
of
Affliction
,
Psal.
119.
50
,
92.
—
2
Sam.
23.
5.
That
for
this
very
purpose
it
was
written
,
Rom.
15.
4.
No
rules
of
moral
Prudence
,
no
sensual
remedies
can
perform
that
for
us
,
which
the
Word
can
do
.
And
is
not
this
a
sealed
Truth
,
attested
by
a
thousand
of
undenyable
experiences
?
Hence
have
the
Saints
fetcht
their
CordJals
,
when
fainting
under
the
rod.
One
Word
of
God
can
do
more
,
than
ten
thousand
words
of
men
to
relieve
a
distressed
soul.
If
Providence
have
at
any
time
directed
you
to
such
Promises
,
as
either
assure
you
that
the
Lord
will
be
with
you
in
trouble
,
Psal.
91.
15.
or
that
encourage
you
from
inward
peace
,
to
bear
cheerfully
outward
burdens
,
John
16.
33.
or
satisfie
you
of
Gods
tenderness
and
moderation
in
his
dealings
with
you
,
Isa.
27.
8.
or
that
you
shall
reap
blessed
fruits
from
them
,
Rom.
8.
28.
or
that
clear
up
your
interest
in
God
,
and
his
love
under
your
afflictions
,
2
Sam.
7.
14.
Oh
,
what
sensible
ease
and
relief
ensues
!
how
light
is
your
burden
,
compared
with
what
it
was
before
!
The
Word
tells
us
,
that
there
is
no
such
way
to
improve
our
Estates
,
as
to
lay
them
out
with
a
cheerful
liberality
for
God
;
and
that
our
withholding
our
hands
,
when
God
and
duty
calls
to
distribute
,
will
not
be
for
our
advantage
.
See
Prov.
11.
25.
Isa.
32.
8.
Prov.
19.
17.
Prov.
11.
24.
Consult
Providence
now
,
and
you
shall
find
it
in
all
respects
according
to
the
report
of
the
Word
.
O
how
true
is
the
Scripture
testimony
herein
!
There
are
many
thousand
Witnesses
now
living
,
that
can
set
their
seals
to
both
parts
of
this
proposition
.
What
men
save
(
as
they
count
saving
)
with
one
hand
,
Providence
scatters
by
another
hand
:
and
what
they
scatter
abroad
with
a
liberal
hand
and
single
eye
for
God
,
is
surely
repay'd
to
them
or
theirs
.
Never
did
any
man
lose
by
distributing
for
God
.
He
that
lends
to
the
poor
foeneratur
Domino
,
as
some
expound
that
Text
,
puts
his
money
to
interest
to
the
Lord
.
Some
have
observed
how
Providence
hath
doubled
all
they
have
laid
out
for
God
,
in
wayes
unexpected
to
them
.
The
Word
assures
us
,
that
the
best
expedient
for
a
man
to
settle
his
own
interest
in
the
consciences
and
affections
of
men
,
is
to
direct
his
wayes
,
so
as
to
please
the
Lord
,
Prov.
16.
7.
and
doth
not
Providence
confirm
it
?
This
the
three
Jews
found
by
experience
,
Dan.
3.
28
,
29.
and
so
did
DanJel
,
chap.
6.
v.
20
,
21
,
22.
This
kept
up
John's
reputation
in
the
conscience
of
Herod
,
Mark
6.
20.
So
it
fell
out
,
when
ConstantJus
made
that
exploratory
decree
;
those
that
were
conscientious
were
preferred
,
and
those
that
changed
their
religion
,
expelled
.
Never
did
any
man
lose
at
last
by
his
fidelity
.
The
written
Word
tells
us
,
that
the
best
expedient
to
inward
peace
and
tranquillity
of
mind
under
puzzling
and
distracting
troubles
,
is
to
commit
our selves
and
our
case
to
the
Lord
;
so
you
read
,
Psal.
37.
5
,
6
,
7.
and
Prov.
16.
3.
And
as
you
have
read
in
the
Word
,
so
you
have
found
it
in
your
own
Experience
.
Oh
,
what
a
burden
is
off
your
shoulders
,
when
you
have
resigned
the
case
to
God●
Then
doth
Providence
issue
your
affairs
comfortably
for
you
.
The
difficulty
is
soon
over
,
when
the
heart
is
brought
to
this
.
Thus
you
see
,
how
Scriptures
are
fulfilled
by
Providence
in
these
few
Instances
I
have
given
of
it
.
Compare
them
in
all
other
cases
,
and
you
shall
find
the
same
:
for
all
the
lines
of
Providence
lead
from
the
Scripture
,
and
return
thither
again
,
and
do
most
visibly
begin
and
end
there
.
The
Fourth
Direction
.
IN
all
your
reviews
and
observations
of
Providence
,
be
sure
that
you
●ye
God
as
the
Author
or
orderer
of
them
all
,
Prov.
3.
6.
In
all
the
comfortable
Providences
of
your
lives
,
●ye
God
as
the
Author
or
donor
of
them
.
Remember
he
is
the
father
of
mercJes
,
that
begets
every
mercy
for
you
,
2
Cor.
1.
3.
The
God
of
all
comfort
,
without
whose
order
no
mercy
or
comfort
can
come
to
your
hands
.
And
think
it
not
enough
thus
to
acknowledge
him
in
a
general
way
;
but
when
you
receive
mercies
,
take
special
notice
of
the
following
particulars
.
(
1.
)
Eye
the
Care
of
God
for
you
,
1
Pet.
5.
7.
He
careth
for
you
.
Your
Father
knows
you
have
need
of
these
things
,
Matth.
6.
32.
It
is
but
to
acquaint
him
what
you
want
,
and
your
wants
are
supplyed
,
Phil.
4.
6.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
torture
not
your selves
about
it
:
you
have
a
Father
that
cares
for
you
.
(
2.
)
Eye
the
Wisdom
of
God
,
in
the
way
of
dispensing
his
mercies
to
you
,
how
suitably
they
are
ordered
to
your
condition
,
and
how
seasonably
.
When
one
comfort
is
cut
off
and
removed
,
another
is
raised
up
in
its
room
.
Thus
Isaac
was
comforted
in
Rebecka
after
his
Mothers
dea●h
,
Gen.
24.
67.
(
3.
)
Eye
the
free
Grace
of
God
in
them
,
yea
,
see
riches
of
Grace
in
every
bequest
of
comfort
to
so
vile
and
unworthy
creatures
as
you
are
.
See
your selves
over-topt
by
the
least
of
all
your
mercies
,
Gen.
32.
10.
I
am
not
worthy
of
the
least
,
said
Jacob.
(
4.
)
Eye
the
Condescension
of
God
,
to
your
requests
for
those
mercies
,
Psal.
34.
6.
This
is
the
sweetest
bit
in
any
enjoyment
,
in
which
a
man
can
sensibly
relish
the
return
and
answer
of
his
Prayers
,
and
greatly
inflames
the
souls
love
to
God
,
Psal.
116.
1.
(
5.
)
Eye
the
Design
and
end
of
God
in
all
your
comforts
.
Know
that
it
is
not
sent
to
satisfie
the
cravings
of
your
sensual
appetite
,
but
to
quicken
and
enable
you
for
a
more
cheerful
discharge
of
your
duty
,
Deut.
28.
47.
(
6.
)
Eye
the
Way
and
Method
in
which
your
mercies
are
conveyed
to
you
.
They
all
slow
to
you
through
the
blood
of
Christ
and
Covenant
of
grace
,
1
Cor.
3.
22
,
23.
Mercies
derive
their
sweetness
from
the
Channel
through
which
they
run
to
us
.
(
7.
)
Eye
the
Distinguishing
goodness
of
God
,
in
all
the
comfortable
enjoyments
of
your
lives
.
How
many
thousand
better
than
you
,
are
denyed
those
Comforts
?
See
Heb.
11.
37.
(
8.
)
Eye
them
all
as
comforts
appointed
to
refresh
you
in
your
way
to
far
better
and
greater
mercies
than
themselves
.
The
best
mercies
are
still
reserved
till
last
,
and
all
these
are
introductive
to
better
.
In
all
the
Sad
and
Afflictive
Providences
that
befall
you
,
Eye
God
as
the
Author
and
orderer
of
them
also
.
So
he
represents
himself
to
us
,
Jer.
18.
11.
Behold
,
I
create
evil
,
and
devise
a
device
against
you
.
And
Amos
3.
6.
Is
there
evil
in
the
City
,
and
the
Lord
hath
not
done
it
?
More
particularly
,
Set
before
you
the
Soveraignty
of
God
.
Eye
him
as
a
Being
infinitely
superiour
to
you
,
at
whose
pleasure
,
you
,
and
all
you
have
is
,
Psal.
115.
3.
which
is
the
most
conclusive
reason
and
argument
of
submission
,
Psal.
46.
10.
For
if
we
,
and
all
we
have
,
proceeded
from
his
Will
,
how
equal
is
it
,
that
we
be
resigned
up
to
it
?
It
is
not
many
years
agone
since
we
were
not
,
and
when
it
pleased
him
to
bring
us
upon
the
Stage
of
action
,
we
had
no
liberty
of
indenting
with
him
,
on
what
●erms
we
would
come
into
the
world
;
or
refuse
to
be
,
except
we
might
have
our
being
on
such
terms
as
we
desired
.
His
Soveraignty
is
gloriously
displayed
in
his
Eternal
Decrees
and
temporal
Providences
.
He
might
have
put
you
into
what
rank
of
Creatures
he
pleased
.
He
might
have
made
you
the
most
despicable
Creatures
,
Worms
or
Toads
:
or
,
if
men
,
the
most
vile
,
abject
and
miserable
among
men
:
and
when
you
had
run
through
all
the
miseries
of
this
life
,
have
damned
you
to
Eternity
,
made
you
miserable
for
ever
,
and
all
this
without
any
wrong
to
you
.
And
shall
not
this
quiet
us
under
the
common
afflictions
of
this
life
?
Set
the
Grace
and
Goodness
of
God
before
you
in
all
afflictive
Providences
.
O
see
him
passing
by
you
in
the
cloudy
and
dark
day
,
proclaiming
his
Name
,
the
Lord
,
the
Lord
merciful
and
gracJous
.
There
are
two
sorts
of
mercies
that
are
seldom
eclipsed
by
the
darkest
affliction
that
befalls
the
Saints
in
their
temporal
concerns
,
sc.
sparing
mercy
in
this
world
,
and
saving
mercy
in
that
to
come
.
It
is
not
so
bad
now
as
it
might
,
and
we
deserved
it
should
be
,
and
it
will
be
better
herea●t●r
.
This
the
Church
observed
,
and
reasoned
her self
quiet
from
it
,
Lam.
3.
22.
Hath
he
taken
some
?
he
might
have
taken
all
.
Are
we
afflicted
?
it's
mercy
we
are
not
destroyed
.
Oh
if
we
consider
what
temporal
mercies
are
yet
spared
,
and
what
spiritual
mercies
are
bestowed
,
and
yet
continued
to
us
,
we
shall
find
cause
to
admire
mercy
,
rather
than
complain
of
severity
.
Eye
the
Wisdom
of
God
in
all
your
afflictions
,
behold
it
in
the
choice
of
the
kind
of
your
affliction
,
this
,
and
not
another
:
the
Time
,
now
and
not
at
another
season
:
the
Degree
,
in
this
measure
only
,
and
not
in
a
greater
:
the
Supports
afforded
you
under
it
,
not
le●t
altogether
helpless
:
the
Issue
to
which
it
's
over
ruled
,
it
's
made
to
your
good
,
not
ruine
.
Look
upon
all
these
,
and
then
ask
thy
heart
that
question
God
askt
Jonah
,
Dost
thou
well
to
be
angry
?
Surely
,
when
you
consider
all
,
what
need
you
had
of
these
rods
,
that
your
corruptions
will
require
all
this
,
it
may
be
much
more
to
mortifie
them
;
that
without
the
perishing
of
these
things
,
you
might
have
perished
for
ever
;
you
will
see
great
reasons
to
be
quiet
and
well
satisfied
under
the
hand
of
God
.
Set
the
faithfulness
of
the
Lord
before
you
under
the
saddest
Providences
.
So
did
David
,
Psal.
119.
75.
This
is
according
to
his
Covenant
faithfulness
,
Psal.
89.
32.
Hence
it
is
,
that
the
Lord
will
not
withhold
a
rod
when
need
requires
it
,
1.
Pet.
1.
6.
Nor
will
he
forsake
his
people
under
the
rod
,
when
he
in●licts
it
,
2
Cor.
4.
9.
Oh
what
quietness
will
this
breed
!
I
see
my
God
will
not
lose
my
heart
,
if
a
rod
can
prevent
it
;
he
had
rather
hear
me
groan
here
,
than
howl
hereafter
:
his
love
is
judicious
,
not
fond
:
he
consults
my
good
,
rather
than
my
ease
.
Eye
the
All-sufficJency
of
God
in
the
day
of
affliction
.
See
enough
in
him
still
,
whatever
be
gone
.
Here
is
the
fountain
still
as
full
as
ever
,
though
this
or
that
pipe
be
cut
off
,
which
was
wont
to
convey
somewhat
of
it
to
me
.
O
Christians
,
can't
you
make
up
any
loss
this
way
?
Can't
you
see
more
in
God
,
than
in
any
or
all
the
Creature
comforts
you
have
lost
?
With
what
eyes
then
do
you
look
upon
God
?
Lastly
,
Eye
the
Immutability
of
God
.
Look
on
him
as
the
Rock
of
Ages
,
James
1.
17.
The
Father
of
lights
,
with
whom
is
no
varJableness
,
nor
shadow
of
turning
.
Eye
Jesus
Christ
,
as
the
same
yesterday
,
to
day
and
for
ever
.
Oh
how
quietly
will
you
then
behave
your selves
under
the
changes
of
Providence
?
It
may
be
,
two
or
three
dayes
have
made
a
sad
change
in
your
condition
:
the
death
of
a
dear
relation
hath
turned
all
things
upside
down
:
that
place
is
empty
where
lately
they
were
,
as
it
is
,
Job
7.
10.
His
place
shall
know
him
no
more
:
Well
,
but
God
is
what
he
was
,
and
where
he
was
:
Time
shall
make
no
change
upon
him
,
as
it
is
in
Isa.
40.
6
,
7
,
8.
The
grass
withereth
,
the
flower
fadeth
;
but
the
word
of
the
Lord
abideth
for
ever
.
O
how
composing
are
those
views
of
God
to
our
spirits
under
dark
Provi●
The
Fifth
Direction
.
LAstly
,
Work
up
your
hearts
to
those
frames
,
and
exercise
those
affectJons
which
the
several
Providences
of
God
that
are
versant
about
you
call
for
,
Eccles.
7.
14.
Suit
your selves
to
answer
the
design
and
end
of
God
in
all
Providences
.
As
there
are
various
affections
planted
in
your
souls
,
so
are
there
several
graces
planted
in
those
affections
,
and
several
Providences
appointed
to
draw
forth
,
and
exercise
these
graces
.
When
the
Providences
of
God
are
sad
,
and
afflictive
either
upon
the
Church
in
general
,
or
your
families
and
persons
in
particular
,
then
it
is
seasonable
for
you
to
exercise
godly
sorrow
and
humility
of
spirit
:
for
in
that
day
,
and
by
those
Providences
God
doth
call
to
it
,
Isa.
22.
12.
Micah
6.
9.
Now
,
sensitive
pleasure
and
natural
joy
,
is
out
of
season
,
Ezek.
21.
10.
Should
we
then
make
mirth
?
If
there
be
either
(
1.
)
A
silial
spirit
in
us
,
we
cannot
be
light
and
vain
,
when
our
Father
is
angry
;
or
(
2.
)
If
any
real
sense
of
the
evil
of
sin
which
provokes
Gods
anger
,
we
must
be
heavy
hearted
when
God
is
smiting
for
it
;
or
(
3.
)
If
any
sense
and
compassion
for
the
miseries
that
sin
brings
upon
the
world
,
it
will
make
us
to
say
with
David
,
Psal.
119.
158.
I
beheld
the
transgressors
and
was
grJeved
.
'T
is
sad
to
consider
the
miseries
t●at
they
pull
down
upon
themselves
in
this
●orld
and
that
to
come
.
(
4.
)
If
there
be
any
care
in
us
to
prevent
utter
ruine
,
and
stop
God
in
the
way
of
his
anger
,
we
know
this
is
the
means
to
do
it
,
Amos
4.
12.
HOw
sad
and
dismal
soever
the
face
of
Providence
be
,
yet
still
maintain
spiritual
joy
and
comfort
in
God
under
all
.
Though
there
be
no
herd
in
the
stall
(
said
Habakuck
,
chap.
3.
17.
)
yet
will
I
rejoyce
in
the
Lord
,
I
will
joy
in
the
God
of
my
salvation
.
There
are
two
sorts
of
Comforts
,
Natural
and
Sensitive
,
Divine
and
Spiritual
.
There
is
a
time
when
it
becomes
ChristJans
to
exercise
both
;
so
Hest.
9.
22.
And
there
is
a
time
when
the
former
is
to
be
suspended
and
laid
by
,
Psal.
137.
2.
But
there
is
no
season
,
wherein
spiritual
joy
and
comfort
in
God
is
unseasonable
,
as
appears
by
those
Scriptures
,
1
Thess.
5.
16.
Phil.
4.
4.
This
spiritual
joy
or
comfort
,
is
nothing
else
but
the
cheeriness
of
our
heart
in
God
,
and
the
sense
of
our
interest
in
him
,
and
in
his
Promises
.
And
it
's
sure
,
that
no
Providence
can
render
this
unseasonable
to
a
Christian.
Let
us
suppose
the
most
afflicted
and
calamitous
state
a
Christian
can
be
incident
to
,
yet
,
(
1.
)
Why
should
sad
Providences
make
him
lay
by
his
comforts
in
God
?
when
as
those
are
but
for
a
moment
,
but
these
eternal
,
2
Cor.
4.
17.
(
2.
)
Why
should
we
lay
by
our
joy
in
God
,
upon
the
account
of
sad
Providences
without
,
when
at
the
very
worst
and
lowest
ebb
,
the
Saints
have
infinitely
more
cause
to
rejoyce
,
than
to
be
cast
down
?
There
's
more
in
one
of
their
mercies
to
comfort
them
,
than
in
all
their
troubles
to
deject
them
.
All
your
losses
are
but
as
the
loss
of
a
farthing
to
a
Prince
,
Rom.
8.
18.
(
3.
)
Why
should
they
be
sad
,
as
long
as
their
God
is
with
them
in
all
their
troubles
?
As
Christ
said
,
Matth.
9.
15.
Can
the
Children
of
the
Bridegroom
be
sad
,
whilest
the
Bridegroom
is
with
them
?
So
say
I
,
Can
the
soul
be
sad
,
whilest
God
is
with
it
?
Oh
methinks
,
that
one
Promise
,
Psal.
91.
15.
I
will
be
with
him
in
trouble
,
should
bear
you
up
under
all
burdens
.
Let
them
be
cast
down
,
that
have
no
God
in
trouble
to
turn
to
.
(
4.
)
Why
should
they
be
sad
,
as
long
as
no
outward
dispensation
of
Providence
,
(
be
it
never
so
sad
)
can
be
interpreted
as
a
mark
or
sign
of
Gods
hatred
or
Anger
,
Eccl.
9.
2
,
3.
There
is
one
event
to
the
righteous
and
wicked
.
Indeed
,
if
it
were
a
signification
of
the
Lords
wrath
against
a
man
,
it
would
justifie
our
dejection
;
but
this
cannot
be
so
:
his
heart
is
full
of
love
,
whilest
the
face
of
Providence
is
full
of
frowns
.
(
5.
)
Why
should
we
be
cast
down
under
sad
Providences
,
whilst
we
have
so
great
security
,
that
even
by
the
hands
of
these
Providences
God
will
do
us
good
,
and
all
these
things
shall
turn
to
our
salvatJon
?
Rom.
8.
28.
By
these
God
is
but
killing
your
lusts
,
weaning
your
hearts
from
a
vain
world
,
preventing
temptations
,
and
exciting
your
desires
after
heaven
;
this
is
all
the
hurt
they
shall
do
you
,
and
shall
that
sadden
us
?
(
6.
)
Why
should
we
lay
by
our
joy
in
God
,
when
as
the
change
of
our
condition
is
so
nigh
?
It
's
but
a
little
while
,
and
sorrows
shall
flee
away
:
you
shall
never
suffer
more
:
God
will
wipe
away
all
tears
,
Revel.
7.
17.
Well
then
,
you
see
there
's
no
reason
upon
the
account
of
Providence
,
to
give
up
your
joy
and
comfort
in
God
.
But
if
you
will
maintain
it
under
all
Providences
,
then
be
careful
(
1.
)
To
Clear
up
your
Interest
in
,
and
Title
to
God
.
Faith
may
be
separated
from
comfort
,
but
assurance
cannot
.
(
2.
)
Mortifie
your
inordinate
affections
to
earthly
things
.
This
makes
Providences
that
deprive
and
cross
us
so
heavy
.
Mortifie
your
opinion
and
affection
,
and
you
sensibly
lighten
your
affliction
.
It
is
strong
affection
that
makes
strong
affliction
.
(
3.
)
Dwell
much
upon
the
meditation
of
the
Lords
near
approach
;
and
then
all
these
things
will
seem
but
trifles
to
you
.
Let
your
moderation
be
known
unto
all
men
,
the
Lord
is
at
hand
.
EXercise
heavenly
mindedness
,
and
keep
your
hearts
upon
things
eternal
,
under
all
the
Providences
with
which
the
Lord
exercises
you
in
this
world
,
Gen.
6.
9.
Noah
walked
with
God
,
yet
met
with
as
sad
Providences
in
his
day
,
as
any
man
that
ever
lived
since
his
time
.
But
alas
!
we
find
most
Providences
,
rather
stops
,
than
steps
in
our
walk
with
God
.
If
we
be
under
comfortable
Providences
,
how
sensual
,
wanton
and
worldly
do
our
hearts
grow
!
And
if
sad
Providences
befall
us
,
how
dedolent
or
distracted
are
we
!
And
this
comes
to
pass
partly
through
the
narrowness
,
but
mostly
,
through
the
deceitfulness
of
our
spirits
.
Our
hearts
are
narrow
,
and
know
not
how
to
manage
two
businesses
of
such
different
natures
,
as
Earthly
and
Heavenly
matters
are
without
detriment
to
one
.
Pectora
nostra
duas
curas
non
admittunt
.
But
certainly
such
a
frame
of
spirit
is
attainable
that
will
enable
us
to
keep
on
in
an
even
and
steddy
course
with
God
,
whatever
befall
us
.
Others
have
attained
it
,
and
why
not
we
?
Prosperous
Providences
are
for
the
most
part
a
dangerous
state
to
the
soul.
The
Moon
never
suffers
an
Eclipse
,
but
at
full
;
yet
I●hosaphat's
grace
suffered
no
Eclipse
from
the
fulness
of
his
outward
condition
,
who
had
riches
in
abundance
,
and
his
heart
was
lifted
up
in
the
way
of
Gods
commandments
,
2
Chron.
17.
5
,
6.
David
●s
life
was
as
full
of
cares
,
turmoils
and
incumbrances
,
as
most
men
we
read
of
;
yet
how
spiritual
the
temper
of
his
heart
was
,
that
excellent
Book
of
Psalms
,
(
which
was
mostly
composed
amidst
those
distractions
)
will
acquaint
us
.
The
Apostles
were
cast
into
as
great
necessities
,
and
suffered
as
hard
things
,
as
ever
men
did
;
yet
how
raised
and
heavenly
their
spirits
were
amidst
all
,
who
sees
not
?
And
certainly
,
if
it
were
not
possible
to
maintain
heavenly-mindedness
in
such
a
state
and
posture
of
affairs
,
God
would
never
exercise
any
of
his
people
with
such
Providences
:
he
would
never
give
you
so
much
of
the
world
to
lose
your
hearts
in
the
love
of
it
,
or
so
little
to
distract
you
with
the
cares
of
it
.
If
therefore
we
were
more
deeply
sanctified
,
and
the
tendencies
of
our
hearts
heaven-ward
more
ardent
and
vigorous
;
If
we
were
more
mortified
to
Earthly
things
,
and
could
not
but
keep
our
due
distance
from
them
;
our
outward
conditions
would
not
at
this
rate
draw
forth
and
exercise
our
inward
corruptions
,
nor
would
we
hazard
the
loss
of
so
sweet
an
enjoyment
as
our
fellowship
with
God
is
,
for
the
sake
of
any
concernment
our
bodies
have
on
Earth
.
UNder
all
Providences
maintain
a
contented
heart
with
what
the
Lord
allots
you
,
be
it
more
or
less
of
the
things
of
this
world
.
This
grace
must
run
parallel
with
all
Providences
.
Learn
how
to
be
full
,
and
how
to
suffer
want
,
and
in
every
state
to
be
content
,
Phil.
4.
12.
In
this
duty
all
men
are
concerned
at
all
times
,
and
in
every
state
,
not
only
the
people
of
God
,
but
even
the
unregenerate
also
.
I
will
therefore
address
some
considerations
proper
to
both
.
And
first
to
the
unregenerate
,
to
stop
their
mouths
from
repining
,
and
charging
God
●oolishly
,
when
Providence
crosses
them
.
Let
them
seriously
consider
these
four
things
.
(
1.
)
That
Hell
and
Eternal
damnation
are
the
portion
of
their
cup
,
according
to
the
tenour
of
Law
,
and
Gospel
threatnings
.
Whatsoever
therefore
is
short
of
this
is
to
be
admired
as
the
fruit
of
Gods
stupendious
patience
,
and
forbearance
towards
them
.
Ah
poor
souls
!
Know
you
not
,
that
you
are
men
and
women
condemned
to
wrath
by
the
plain
sentence
of
the
Law
?
Mark
16.
16.
John
3.
36.
2
Thess.
1.
6
,
7.
And
if
so
,
●ure
there
are
other
matters
to
exercise
your
thoughts
,
desires
,
fears
and
cares
about
than
these
.
Alas
!
if
you
cannot
bear
a
frown
of
Providence
,
a
light
cross
in
these
things
,
how
will
you
bear
the
everlasting
burnings
!
A
man
that
is
to
lose
his
head
to
morrow
,
is
not
very
solicitous
what
bed
he
lyes
on
,
or
how
his
Table
is
●urnisht
the
night
before
.
(
2.
)
Consider
,
though
you
be
condemned
persons
,
and
have
no
promise
to
entitle
you
to
any
mercy
;
yet
there
are
very
many
mercies
in
your
possession
at
this
day
.
Be
your
condition
as
afflictive
as
it
will
,
is
life
nothing
?
especially
considering
whither
you
must
sink
,
when
that
thread
is
cut
.
Are
the
necessary
supports
of
life
nothing
?
Doth
not
Providence
minister
to
you
these
things
,
though
you
daily
disoblige
it
,
and
provoke
God
to
send
you
to
your
own
place
?
But
,
above
all
,
is
the
Gospel
and
precious
means
of
salvation
nothing
,
by
which
you
yet
are
in
a
capacity
of
escaping
the
damnation
of
Hell
?
O
what
would
the
damned
say
,
if
they
were
but
put
into
your
condition
once
more
?
What
,
and
yet
fret
against
God
,
because
every
thing
else
suits
not
your
desires
?
(
3.
)
Consider
,
that
if
ever
you
be
rescued
out
of
that
miserable
condition
you
are
in
,
such
cross
Providences
,
as
these
you
complain
of
,
are
the
most
probable
means
to
do
it
.
Alas
!
prosperity
and
success
is
not
the
way
to
save
,
but
destroy
you
,
Prov.
1.
32.
You
must
be
bound
in
fetters
,
and
holden
in
cords
of
affliction
,
if
ever
your
ear
be
opened
to
instruction
,
Job
36.
8
,
9
,
10.
Wo
to
you
,
if
you
go
on
smoothly
in
the
way
in
which
you
are
,
and
meet
with
no
crosses
.
(
4.
)
Lastly
,
Consider
,
all
your
troubles
under
which
you
complain
,
are
pulled
down
upon
your
heads
by
your
own
sins
.
You
turn
Gods
mercies
into
sin
,
and
then
fret
against
God
,
because
he
turns
your
sins
into
sorrow
.
Your
wayes
and
doings
procure
these
things
to
you
.
Lay
your
hand
therefore
upon
your
mouth
and
say
,
Why
doth
the
living
man
complain
,
a
man
for
the
punishment
of
his
sin
,
Lam.
3.
39.
But
I
must
turn
to
the
Lords
people
,
who
have
least
pretences
of
all
men
to
be
dissatisfied
with
any
of
Gods
Providences
,
and
yet
are
but
too
frequently
sound
in
that
temper
.
And
to
them
I
shall
offer
the
following
considerations
.
(
1.
)
Consider
your
spiritual
mercJes
and
priviledges
with
which
the
Lord
Jesus
hath
invested
you
,
and
repine
at
your
Lot
of
Providence
if
you
can
.
One
of
these
mercies
alone
,
hath
enough
in
it
to
sweeten
all
your
troubles
in
this
world
.
When
the
Apostle
considered
them
,
his
heart
was
overwhelmed
with
astonishment
;
so
that
he
could
not
forbear
in
the
midst
of
all
his
outward
troubles
to
cry
out
,
Blessed
be
the
God
and
Father
of
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
who
hath
abounded
to
us
in
all
spiritual
blessings
,
&c.
Eph.
1.
3.
Oh
,
who
that
sees
such
an
Inheritance
setled
upon
him
in
Christ
,
can
ever
open
his
mouth
more
to
repine
at
his
Lot
of
Providence
!
(
2.
)
Consider
your
sins
,
and
that
will
make
you
contented
with
your
Lot
.
Yea
,
consider
two
things
in
sin
.
(
1.
)
What
it
deserves
from
God
,
and
(
2.
)
What
it
requires
to
mortifie
and
purge
it
in
you
.
It
deserves
from
God
Eternal
ruine
:
the
merit
of
Hell
is
in
the
least
vain
thought
.
Every
sin
forfeits
all
the
mercies
you
have
;
and
if
so
,
rather
wonder
your
mercies
are
so
many
,
than
that
you
have
no
more
.
Besides
,
you
cannot
doubt
,
but
your
corruptions
require
all
the
crosses
,
wants
and
troubles
that
are
upon
you
,
and
it
may
be
,
a
great
deal
more
,
to
mortifie
and
subdue
them
.
Don't
you
find
,
after
all
the
rods
that
have
been
upon
you
,
a
proud
heart
still
,
a
vain
and
earthly
heart
still
?
Oh
how
many
bitter
potions
are
but
necessary
to
purge
out
this
tough
malignant
l●umour
!
(
3.
)
Consider
how
near
you
are
to
the
Change
of
your
conditJon
:
have
but
a
little
patience
,
and
all
will
be
as
well
with
you
as
your
hearts
can
desire
.
It
is
no
small
comfort
to
the
Saints
,
that
this
world
is
the
worst
place
that
ever
they
shall
be
in
:
things
will
better
every
day
with
them
.
If
the
Traveller
have
spent
all
his
money
,
yet
it
doth
not
much
trouble
him
,
if
he
know
himself
within
a
few
miles
of
his
own
home
.
If
there
be
no
Candles
in
the
house
,
we
do
not
much
matter
it
,
if
we
are
sure
it
's
almost
break
of
day
;
for
then
there
will
be
no
use
for
them
.
This
is
your
case
;
your
salvatJon
is
nearer
than
when
you
belJeved
,
Rom.
13.
11.
I
have
done
with
the
directive
part
of
this
discourse
;
but
before
I
pass
to
this
fifth
Head
,
I
judge
it
necessary
to
leave
a
few
Cautions
to
prevent
the
abuse
of
Providence
,
and
your
miscarriages
in
your
behaviour
towards
it
.
And
First
Caution
.
If
Providence
delay
the
performance
of
any
mercy
to
you
,
that
you
have
long
waited
and
prayed
for●
yet
see
,
that
you
despond
not
;
nor
grow
weary
of
wait●ing
upon
God
for
that
reason
.
It
pleases
the
Lord
oftentimes
to
try
,
and
exercise
his
people
thi●
way
,
and
make
them
cry
,
How
long
Lord
,
ho●
long
?
Psal.
13.
1
,
2.
These
delayes
both
upon
spiritual
and
tempo●ral
accounts
are
frequent
,
and
when
they
befa●●us
,
we
are
too
apt
to
interpret
them
as
denyals
and
fall
into
a
sinful
despondency
of
mind
,
though●
there
be
no
cause
at
all
for
it
,
Psal.
31.
12.
Lam.
3.
8.
44.
It
is
not
alwayes
that
the
returns
of
prayer
are
dispatcht
to
us
in
the
same
hour
they
are
asked
of
God
;
yet
sometimes
it
falls
out
so
,
Isa.
65.
24.
Dan.
9.
23.
But
though
the
Lord
means
to
perform
to
us
the
mercies
we
desire
▪
yet
he
will
ordinarily
exercise
our
patience
to
wait
for
them
;
and
that
for
these
reasons
.
(
1.
)
Because
our
time
is
not
the
proper
season
for
us
to
receive
our
mercies
in
.
Now
the
season
of
mercy
is
a
very
great
circumstance
that
adds
much
to
the
value
of
it
.
God
judges
not
as
we
do
;
we
are
all
in
haste
,
and
will
have
it
now
,
Numb.
12.
13.
But
he
is
a
God
of
judgement
,
and
blessed
are
they
that
wait
for
him
,
Isa.
30.
18.
(
2.
)
Afflictive
Providences
have
not
accomplished
that
design
upon
our
hearts
they
were
sent
for
,
when
we
are
so
earnest
and
impatient
for
a
change
of
them
;
and
till
then
the
rod
must
not
be
taken
off
,
Isa.
10.
12.
(
3.
)
The
more
prayers
and
searchings
of
heart
come
between
our
wants
and
supplies
,
our
afflictions
and
reliefs
,
the
sweeter
are
our
reliefs
and
supplies
thereby
made
to
us
,
Isa.
25.
9.
This
is
our
God
,
we
have
waited
for
him
,
and
he
will
save
us
:
this
is
the
Lord
,
we
have
waited
for
him
,
we
will
rejoyce
and
be
glad
in
his
salvatJon
.
This
recompenses
the
delay
,
and
payes
us
for
all
the
expences
of
our
patience
.
But
though
there
be
such
weighty
reasons
for
the
stop
and
delay
of
refreshing
comfortable
Providences
;
yet
we
cannot
bear
it
,
our
hands
hang
down
and
we
faint
,
Psal.
69.
3.
I
am
weary
of
my
crying
,
my
throat
is
dry
,
mine
eyes
fail
while
I
wait
for
my
God
.
For
alas
!
we
judge
by
sense
and
appearance
,
and
consider
not
,
that
Gods
heart
may
be
towards
us
▪
whilst
the
hand
of
his
Providence
seems
to
be
against
us
.
If
things
continue
at
one
rate
with
us
,
we
think
our
prayers
are
lost
,
and
our
hopes
perished
from
the
Lord
:
much
more
when
things
grow
worse
and
worse
,
and
our
darkness
and
trouble
encreases
,
as
usually
it
doth
just
before
the
break
of
day
and
change
of
our
condition
,
then
we
conclude
,
God
is
angry
with
our
prayers
.
See
Gideon's
reply
,
Judges
6.
13.
This
even
staggered
a
Moses's
faith
,
Exod.
5.
22
,
23.
O
what
groundless
Jealousies
and
suspicions
of
God
are
found
at
such
times
in
the
hearts
of
his
own
Children
!
Job
9.
16
,
17.
Psal.
77.
7
,
8
,
9.
But
this
is
our
great
evil
,
and
to
prevent
it
in
future
tryals
,
I
will
offer
a
few
proper
considerations
in
the
case
.
The
delay
of
your
mercies
,
is
really
for
your
advantage
.
You
read
Isa.
30.
18.
The
Lord
waits
that
he
may
be
gracJous
.
What
is
that
?
Why
,
it
's
nothing
else
but
the
time
of
his
preparation
of
mercies
for
you
,
and
your
hearts
for
mercy
,
that
so
you
may
have
it
with
the
greatest
advantage
of
comfort
.
The
foolish
Child
would
pluck
the
apple
while
it
's
green
;
but
when
it
's
ripe
,
it
drops
of
its
own
accord
,
and
is
more
pleasant
and
wholsome
.
It
's
a
greater
mercy
,
to
have
an
heart
willing
to
refer
all
to
God
,
and
be
at
his
dispose
;
than
to
enjoy
presently
the
mercy
we
are
most
eager
and
impatient
for
.
In
that
God
pleases
you
,
in
this
you
please
God
.
A
mercy
may
be
given
yo●
as
the
fruit
of
common
Providence
;
but
such
a
temper
of
heart
is
the
fruit
of
special
grace
▪
So
much
as
the
glorifying
of
God
is
better
than
the
content
and
pleasure
of
the
creature
,
so
much
is
such
a
frame
better
,
than
such
a
fruition
.
Expected
mercies
are
never
nearer
,
than
when
the
hearts
and
hopes
of
Gods
people
are
lowest
.
Thus
in
their
deliverance
out
of
Egypt
,
and
Babylon
,
Ezek.
37.
11.
So
we
have
sound
it
in
our
own
personal
concerns
:
at
Evening
time
it
shall
be
light
,
Zach.
14.
7.
When
we
look
for
increasing
darkness
,
light
▪
arises
.
Our
unfitness
for
mercy
,
is
the
reason
why
they
are
delayed
so
long
.
We
put
the
blocks
into
the
way
of
mercy
,
and
then
repine
,
that
they
make
no
more
haste
to
us
,
Isa.
59.
1
,
2.
The
Lords
hand
is
not
shortned
,
but
our
iniquitJes
have
separated
betwixt
him
and
us
.
Consider
,
the
mercies
you
wait
for
,
are
the
fruits
of
pure
grace
,
you
deserve
them
not
,
nor
can
claim
them
upon
any
Title
of
desert
;
and
therefore
have
reason
to
wait
for
them
in
a
patient
and
thankful
frame
.
Consider
,
how
many
MillJons
of
men
as
good
as
you
by
nature
,
are
cut
off
from
all
hope
and
expectation
of
mercy
for
ever
,
and
there
remains
to
them
nothing
but
a
fearful
expectatJon
of
wrath
.
This
might
have
been
your
case
;
and
therefore
be
not
of
an
impatient
spirit
under
the
expectations
of
mercy
.
Second
Caution
.
Pry
not
too
curiously
into
the
secrets
of
Providence
,
nor
suffer
your
shallow
reason
arrogantly
to
judge
and
censure
its
designs
.
There
be
hard
Texts
in
the
Works
,
When
I
thought
to
know
this
(
saith
Asaph
)
it
was
too
wonder
ful
for
me
.
I
thought
to
know
this
,
there
was
the
arrogant
attempt
of
reason
,
labor
i●utilis
,
as
Calvin
expounds
it
.
He
pryed
so
far
into
that
puzzling
Mysterie
of
the
AfflictJons
of
the
Righteous
,
and
Prosperity
of
the
wicked
,
till
it
begat
envy
towards
them
,
and
despondency
in
himself
,
Psal.
73.
v.
3.
13.
and
this
was
all
he
got
by
summoning
Providence
to
the
bar
of
reason
.
Holy
Job
was
guilty
of
this
evil
,
and
ingenuously
ashamed
of
it
,
Job
42.
3.
I
know
,
there
is
nothing
in
the
Word
or
in
the
Works
of
God
,
that
is
repugnant
to
sound
reason
:
but
there
are
some
things
in
both
,
which
are
opposite
to
carnal
reason
;
as
well
as
above
right
reason
;
and
therefore
our
reason
never
shews
it self
more
unreasonable
,
than
in
summoning
those
things
to
its
bar
,
which
transeend
its
sphere
and
capacity
.
Manifold
are
the
mischiefs
which
ensue
upon
this
practice
.
By
this
we
are
drawn
into
an
unworthy
suspicion
and
distruct
of
the
faithfulness
of
God
in
the
Promises
.
Sarah
laught
at
the
tydings
of
the
Son
of
Promise
,
because
reason
contradicted
,
and
told
her
,
it
was
natu●ally
impossible
,
Gen.
18.
13
,
14.
Hence
comes
despondency
of
mind
,
and
saintness
of
heart
under
afflictive
Providences
;
reason
can
discern
no
good
fruits
in
them
,
nor
deliverance
from
them
,
and
so
our
hands
hang
down
in
a
sinful
discouragement
,
saying
,
all
these
things
are
against
us
,
1
Sam.
27.
1.
Hence
flow
temptations
to
deliver
our selves
by
indirect
and
sinful
mediums
,
Isa.
30.
15
,
16.
When
our
own
reason
fills
us
with
a
distruct
of
Providence
,
it
naturally
prompts
us
to
sinful
shifts
,
and
there
leaves
us
entangled
in
the
snares
of
our
own
making
.
Beware
therefore
you
lean
not
too
much
to
your
own
reasons
and
understandings
.
Nothing
is
more
plausible
,
nothing
more
dangerous
.
In
other
matters
it
is
appointed
the
Arbiter
and
Judge
,
we
make
it
so
here
,
and
therefore
we
are
so
di●●ident
and
distrustful
notwithstanding
the
fullest
security
of
the
Promises
,
whilest
our
reason
stands
by
unsatisfied
.
The
Fifth
Head
.
HAving
given
direction
for
the
due
management
of
this
great
and
important
duty
,
what
remains
,
but
that
we
now
set
our
hearts
to
it
,
and
make
it
the
constant
work
of
every
day
throughout
our
lives
?
O
what
peace
,
what
pleasure
,
what
stability
,
what
holy
courage
and
confidence
would
result
from
such
an
observation
of
Providence
as
hath
been
directed
to
!
But
alas
!
we
may
say
with
reference
to
the
voices
of
Divine
Providence
,
as
it
is
Job
33.
14.
God
speaketh
once
,
yea
twice
,
yet
man
perceiveth
it
not
.
Many
a
time
Providence
hath
spoken
InstructJon
in
duty
,
ConvictJon
for
iniquity
,
Encouragement
under
despondency
;
but
we
regard
it
not
.
How
greatly
are
we
all
wanting
to
our
duty
,
and
comfort
by
this
neglect
!
It
will
be
but
needful
therefore
to
spread
before
you
,
the
loveliness
and
excellency
of
walking
with
God
in
a
due
and
daily
observation
of
his
Providences
,
that
our
souls
may
be
fully
engaged
to
it
.
First
Motive
.
ANd
First
,
Let
me
offer
this
,
as
a
moving
argument
to
all
gracious
souls
;
That
by
this
means
you
may
maintain
sweet
and
sensible
communJon
with
God
from
day
to
day
.
And
what
is
there
desirable
in
this
world
,
in
comparison
therewith
!
Thou
Lord
hast
made
me
glad
through
thy
works
:
I
will
trJumph
in
the
works
of
thy
hands
,
Psal.
●2
.
4.
Your
hearts
may
be
as
sweetly
and
sensibly
refresht
by
the
works
of
Gods
hands
,
as
by
the
words
of
his
mouth
.
Psal.
104.
per
totum
is
spent
in
the
consideration
of
the
works
of
Providence
,
which
so
filled
the
Psalmist's
heart
,
that
,
by
way
of
ejaculation
,
he
expresses
the
effect
of
it
,
Ver.
34.
My
MeditatJon
of
him
shall
be
sweet
.
Communion
with
God
properly
and
strictly
taken
,
consists
in
two
things
;
viz.
Gods
manifestation
of
himself
to
the
soul
,
and
the
souls
answerable
returns
to
God
.
This
is
that
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
fellowship
we
have
here
with
God
.
Now
God
manifests
himself
to
his
people
by
Providences
as
well
as
Ordinances
;
neither
is
there
any
grace
in
a
sanctified
soul
hid
from
the
gracious
influences
of
his
Providential
manifestations
.
Sometimes
the
Lord
manifests
his
displeasure
and
anger
against
the
sins
of
his
people
in
correcting
and
rebuking
Providences
.
His
rods
have
a
chiding
voice
,
Micah
6.
9.
Hear
the
rod
and
who
hath
appointed
it
.
This
discovery
of
Gods
anger
kindly
melts
and
thaws
a
gracious
soul
,
and
produces
a
double
sweet
effect
upon
it
,
namely
,
repentance
for
sins
past
,
and
due
cautJon
against
future
sins
.
(
1.
)
It
thaws
and
melts
the
heart
for
sins
committed
.
Thus
David's
heart
was
melted
for
his
sin
,
when
the
hand
of
God
was
heavy
upon
him
in
affliction
,
Psal.
32.
4
,
5.
Thus
the
Captive
Church
,
upon
whom
fell
the
saddest
and
most
dismal
Providence
that
ever
befell
any
of
Gods
people
in
any
age
of
the
world
;
see
how
their
hearts
are
broken
for
sin
under
this
severe
rebuke
,
Lam.
2.
17
,
18
,
19.
And
then
,
(
2.
For
caution
against
sin
for
the
time
to
come
;
it
's
plain
,
that
the
rebukes
of
Providence
leave
that
effect
also
upon
gracious
hearts
,
Ezra
9.
13
,
14.
Psal.
85.
8.
Sometimes
he
cheers
and
comforts
the
hearts
of
his
people
with
smiling
and
reviving
Providences
,
both
publick
and
personal
.
There
are
times
of
lifting
up
as
well
as
casting
down
by
the
hand
of
Providence
.
The
Scene
changes
,
the
aspects
of
Providence
are
very
cheerful
and
encouraging
▪
their
Winter
seems
to
be
over
:
they
put
off
their
garments
of
mourning
;
and
then
,
Ah
,
what
sweet
returns
are
made
to
heaven
by
gracious
souls
!
Doth
God
lift
them
up
by
prosperity
?
they
also
will
lift
up
their
God
by
praises
.
See
Psal.
18.
Title
,
and
v.
1
,
2
,
3.
So
Moses
and
the
people
with
him
,
Exod.
15.
when
God
had
delivered
them
from
Pharaoh
,
how
do
they
exalt
him
in
a
song
of
thanksgiving
,
which
for
the
elegancy
and
spirituality
of
it
,
is
made
an
Emblem
of
the
doxologies
given
to
God
in
glory
by
the
Saints
!
Rev.
15.
3.
Upon
the
whole
,
whatever
effects
our
Communion
with
God
in
any
of
his
Ordinances
doth
use
to
produce
upon
our
hearts
,
the
same
we
may
observe
to
follow
our
conversing
with
him
in
his
Providences
.
For
,
It
is
usually
found
in
the
experience
of
all
the
Saints
,
that
in
what
Ordinance
or
duty
soever
they
●ave
any
sensible
communion
with
God
,
it
naturally
produces
in
their
spirits
a
deep
abasement
and
humiliation
from
the
sense
of
divine
condescensions
to
such
vile
poor
Worms
as
we
are
.
Thus
Abraham
,
Gen.
18.
27.
I
am
but
dust
and
ashes
.
The
same
effect
follows
our
converse
with
God
in
his
Providences
.
Thus
when
God
had
in
the
way
of
his
Providence
prospered
Jacob
,
how
doth
he
lay
himself
at
the
feet
of
God
,
as
a
man
overwhelmed
with
the
sense
of
mercy
!
See
Gen.
32.
5
,
10.
And
Jacob
said
,
I
am
not
worthy
of
the
least
of
all
thy
mercJes
,
and
of
all
the
truth
which
thou
hast
shewed
thy
servant
;
for
with
my
staff
I
passed
over
this
Jordan
,
and
now
am
become
two
bands
.
Thus
also
it
was
with
David
,
2
Sam.
7.
18.
Who
am
I
,
and
what
is
my
Fathers
house
,
that
thou
hast
brought
me
hitherto
!
And
I
doubt
not
,
but
some
of
you
have
found
the
like
frame
of
heart
upon
you
,
that
these
holy
men
here
expressed
.
Can
you
not
remember
when
God
lifted
you
up
by
Providence
,
how
you
cast
down
your selves
before
him
,
and
have
been
viler
in
your
own
eyes
than
ever
!
Why
,
thus
do
all
gracious
hearts
;
What
am
I
,
that
the
Lord
should
do
thus
and
thus
for
me
!
O
that
ever
so
great
and
holy
a
God
should
thus
be
concerned
for
so
vile
and
sinful
a
Worm
!
(
2.
)
Doth
Communion
with
God
in
Ordinances
,
melt
the
heart
into
love
to
God
?
Cant.
2.
3
,
4
,
5.
Why
,
so
doth
the
observation
of
his
Providences
also
.
Never
did
any
man
convers●
with
Gods
works
of
Providenc●
aright
,
but
f●●nd
his
heart
at
some
times
melted
into
love
to
the
God
of
his
mercies
,
Psal.
18.
1.
compared
with
the
Title
.
When
God
had
delivered
him
from
the
hand
of
Saul
,
and
all
his
Enemies
,
he
said
,
I
will
love
thee
O
Lord
my
strength
.
Every
man
loves
the
mercies
of
God
,
but
a
Saint
loves
the
God
of
his
mercies
.
The
mercies
of
God
,
as
they
are
the
fewel
of
a
wicked
mans
lusts
,
so
they
are
fewel
to
maintain
a
good
mans
love
to
God
;
not
that
their
love
to
God
is
grounded
upon
these
external
benefits
,
Not
thine
,
but
thee
,
O
Lord
,
is
the
motto
of
a
gracious
soul
;
but
yet
these
things
serve
to
blow
up
the
flame
of
love
to
God
in
their
hearts
,
and
they
find
it
so
.
Doth
Communion
with
God
set
the
keenest
edge
upon
the
soul
against
sin
?
You
see
it
doth
:
and
have
a
pregnant
Instance
of
it
in
Moses
,
when
he
had
been
with
God
in
the
Mount
for
forty
dayes
,
and
had
there
enjoyed
communion
with
him
;
when
he
came
down
and
saw
the
Calf
the
people
had
made
;
see
what
an
holy
paroxysm
of
zeal
and
anger
it
cast
his
soul
into
,
Exod.
32.
19
,
20.
Why
,
the
same
effect
you
may
discern
to
follow
the
Saints
converse
with
God
in
his
Providences
.
What
was
that
which
pierced
the
heart
of
David
with
such
a
deep
sense
of
the
evil
of
his
sin
,
which
is
so
abundantly
manifested
in
Psalm
51.
throughout
?
Why
,
if
you
look
into
the
Title
you
shall
find
,
it
was
the
effect
of
what
Nathan
had
laid
before
him
:
and
if
you
consult
2
Sam.
12.
7
,
8
,
9
,
10.
you
shall
find
,
it
was
the
goodness
of
God
manifested
to
him
in
the
several
endearing
Providences
of
his
life
,
which
in
this
he
had
so
evilly
requited
the
Lord
for
,
that
broke
his
heart
to
pieces
in
the
sense
of
it
:
and
I
doubt
not
,
but
some
of
us
have
some
times
found
the
like
effects
,
by
comparing
Gods
wayes
and
our
own
together
.
Doth
Communion
with
the
Lord
enlarge
the
heart
for
obedience
and
service
?
Surely
it
is
as
oyl
to
the
wheels
,
that
makes
them
run
of
freely
and
nimbly
their
course
.
Thus
when
IsaJah
had
obtained
a
special
manifestation
of
God
,
and
the
Lord
askt
,
whom
shall
I
send
?
he
presents
a
ready
soul
for
the
employment
,
Isa.
6.
8.
Here
am
I
,
Lord
,
send
me
.
Why
,
the
very
same
effect
follows
sanctified
Providences
,
as
you
may
see
in
Jehosaphat
,
2
Chron.
17.
5
,
6.
and
in
David
,
Psal.
116.
12.
O
when
a
soul
considers
what
God
hath
done
for
him
,
he
cannot
chuse
but
say
,
what
shall
I
return
?
how
shall
I
answer
these
engagements
?
And
thus
you
see
,
what
sweet
Communion
a
soul
may
have
with
God
in
the
way
of
his
Providences
.
O
that
you
would
thus
walk
with
him
!
How
much
of
Heaven
might
be
found
on
Earth
this
way
!
And
certainly
,
it
will
never
repent
the
Lord
he
hath
done
you
good
,
when
his
mercies
produce
such
effects
upon
your
hearts
:
he
will
say
of
every
savour
thus
improved
,
It
was
well
bestowed
,
and
will
rejoyce
over
you
to
do
you
good
for
ever
.
Second
Motive
.
A
Great
part
of
the
pleasure
and
delight
of
the
ChristJan
life
is
made
out
of
the
observatJons
of
Providence
.
It
is
said
,
Psal.
111.
2.
The
works
of
the
Lord
are
great
,
sought
out
of
all
them
that
have
pleasure
therein
:
(
i.
e.
)
the
study
of
Providence
is
so
sweet
and
pleasant
,
that
it
invites
and
allures
the
soul
to
search
and
dive
into
it
.
How
pleasant
is
it
to
a
well
tempered
soul
to
behold
and
observe
,
(
1.
)
The
sweet
harmony
and
consent
of
divine
Attributes
in
the
issues
of
Providence
!
They
may
seem
sometimes
to
jarr
and
clash
,
to
part
with
each
other
,
and
go
contrary
wayes
:
but
they
only
seem
so
to
do
;
for
in
the
winding
up
,
they
alwayes
meet
and
embrace
each
other
,
Psal.
85.
10.
Mercy
and
Truth
have
met
together
:
Righteousness
and
Peace
have
kissed
each
other
.
It
is
spoken
with
an
immediate
reference
to
that
signal
Providence
of
Israels
deliverance
out
of
the
Babylonish
captivity
,
and
the
sweet
effect
thereof
:
wherein
the
truth
and
righteousness
of
God
in
the
promises
,
did
as
it
were
kiss
and
embrace
the
mercy
and
peace
that
was
contained
in
the
performance
of
them
,
after
they
had
seemed
for
seventy
years
to
be
at
a
great
distance
from
each
other
.
For
it
is
an
allusion
to
the
usual
demonstrations
of
joy
and
gladness
,
that
two
dear
friends
are
wont
to
give
and
receive
,
after
a
long
absence
and
separation
from
each
other
:
they
no
sooner
meet
,
but
they
smile
,
embrace
and
kiss
each
other
.
Even
thus
it
is
here
.
The
word
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
may
be
,
have
met
us
,
and
that
also
is
true
;
for
when
ever
these
blessed
Promises
and
Performances
meet
and
kiss
each
other
,
they
are
also
joyfully
embraced
and
killed
by
believing
souls
.
There
is
,
I
doubt
not
,
a
mediate
reference
of
this
Scripture
to
the
MessJah
also
,
and
our
redemption
by
him
:
In
him
it
is
that
these
divine
Attributes
which
before
seemed
to
clash
and
contradict
one
another
in
the
business
of
our
salvation
,
have
a
sweet
agreement
and
accomplishment
.
Truth
and
Righteousness
do
in
him
meet
with
Mercy
and
Peace
in
a
blessed
agreement
.
What
a
lovely
sight
is
this
!
and
how
pleasant
to
behold
!
O
if
with
Habbakuk
,
chap.
2.
v.
3.
we
would
but
stand
upon
our
Watch-Tower
to
take
due
observations
of
Providence
;
what
rare
prospects
might
we
have
!
I●uther
understands
it
of
the
Word
of
God
,
q.
d.
I
will
look
into
the
Word
,
and
observe
there
how
God
accomplisheth
all
things
,
and
brings
them
to
pass
,
and
how
his
works
are
the
fulfilling
of
his
Word
.
Others
(
as
Calvin
)
understand
it
of
a
mans
own
retiring
thoughts
and
meditations
,
wherein
a
man
carefully
observes
what
purposes
and
designs
God
hath
upon
the
World
in
general
,
or
upon
himself
in
particular
,
and
how
the
Truth
and
Righteousness
of
God
in
the
Word
work
themselves
through
all
difficulties
and
impediments
,
and
meet
in
the
mercy
,
peace
and
happiness
of
the
Saints
at
last
.
Every
Believer
(
take
it
in
which
sense
you
will
,
)
hath
his
Watch-Tower
as
well
as
H●bb●kuk
:
and
give
me
leave
to
say
,
it
's
an
Angelical
employment
to
stand
upon
it
,
and
behold
the
consent
of
Gods
Attributes
,
the
accomplishment
of
his
Ends
,
and
our
own
happiness
in
the
works
of
Providence
.
For
this
is
the
very
joy
of
the
Angels
and
Saints
in
Heaven
,
to
see
Gods
Ends
wrought
out
,
and
his
Attributes
glorified
in
the
mercy
and
peace
of
the
Church
,
Rev.
14.
1
,
2
,
3.
&
8.
(
2.
)
And
as
it
's
a
pleasant
sight
to
see
the
harmony
of
Gods
Attributes
,
so
it
is
exceeding
pleasant
to
behold
the
resurrection
of
our
own
prayers
and
hopes
as
from
the
dead
.
Why
,
this
you
may
often
see
,
if
you
will
duly
observe
the
works
of
Providence
towards
you
.
We
hope
and
pray
for
such
and
such
mercies
to
the
Church
,
or
to
our selves
;
but
God
delayes
the
accomplishment
of
our
hopes
,
suspends
the
answer
of
our
prayers
,
and
seems
to
speak
to
us
,
as
Hab.
2.
3.
For
the
visJon
is
yet
for
an
appointed
time
,
but
at
the
end
it
shall
speak
and
not
lye
:
though
it
tarry
,
wait
for
it
,
because
it
will
surely
come
,
it
will
not
tarry
:
but
we
have
no
patience
to
wait
the
time
of
the
Promise
,
our
hopes
languish
and
dye
in
the
interim
;
and
we
say
with
the
despondent
Church
,
Lam.
3.
18.
Our
hope
is
perished
from
the
Lord
;
but
Oh
,
how
sweet
and
comfortable
is
it
,
to
see
these
prayers
fulfilled
,
after
we
have
given
up
all
expectation
of
them
!
May
we
not
say
of
them
,
as
the
Scripture
speaks
of
the
restoration
of
the
Jews
,
it
is
even
life
from
the
dead
.
This
was
David's
case
,
Psal.
31.
22.
he
gave
up
his
hopes
and
prayers
for
lost
,
yet
lived
to
see
the
comfortable
and
unexpected
returns
of
them
.
And
this
was
the
case
of
Job
,
chap.
6.
11.
he
had
given
up
all
expectation
of
better
dayes
,
and
yet
this
man
lived
to
see
a
resurrection
of
all
his
lost
comforts
with
an
advantage
.
Think
how
that
change
and
unexpected
turn
of
Providence
affected
his
soul
:
it
is
with
our
hopes
and
prayers
as
with
our
Alms
,
Cast
thy
bread
on
the
waters
,
for
thou
shalt
find
it
after
many
dayes
,
Eccles.
11.
1.
or
as
it
was
with
Jacob
,
who
had
given
ov●r
all
hopes
of
ever
seeing
his
beloved
Joseph
again
,
but
when
a
strange
and
unexpected
Providence
had
restored
that
hopeless
mercy
to
him
again
,
Oh
how
ravishing
and
transporting
was
it
?
Gen.
46.
29
,
30.
(
3.
)
What
a
transporting
pleasure
is
it
,
to
behold
great
blessings
and
advantages
to
us
wrought
by
Providence
,
out
of
those
very
things
that
seemed
to
threaten
our
ruine
or
misery
?
and
yet
by
due
observing
the
wayes
of
Providence
,
you
may
to
your
singular
comfort
find
it
so
.
Little
did
Joseph
think
his
transportation
into
Egypt
,
had
been
in
order
to
his
advancement
there
;
yet
he
lived
with
joy
to
see
it
,
and
with
a
thankful
heart
to
acknowledge
it
,
Gen.
45.
5.
Wait
and
observe
,
and
you
shall
assuredly
find
that
Promise
,
Rom.
8.
28.
working
out
its
way
through
all
Providences
.
How
many
times
have
you
been
made
to
say
as
David
,
Psal.
119.
71.
It
is
good
for
me
that
I
have
been
afflicted
.
O
what
a
difference
have
we
seen
betwixt
our
afflictions
at
our
first
meeting
with
them
,
and
our
parting
from
them
!
We
have
entertained
them
with
sighs
and
tears
,
but
parted
from
them
with
joy
,
blessing
God
for
them
,
as
the
happy
Instruments
of
our
good
.
Thus
our
fears
and
sorrows
are
turned
into
praises
and
songs
of
thanksgiving
.
(
4.
)
What
unspeakable
comfort
is
it
for
a
poor
soul
,
that
sees
nothing
but
sin
and
vileness
in
it self
,
at
the
same
time
to
see
what
an
high
esteem
and
value
the
great
God
hath
for
him
!
This
may
be
discerned
by
a
due
attendance
to
Providence
,
for
there
a
man
sees
goodness
and
mercy
following
him
through
all
his
dayes
,
as
it
is
Psal.
23.
6.
Other
men
prosecute
good
,
and
it
flyes
from
them
,
they
can
never
overtake
it
;
but
goodness
and
mercy
follow
the
people
of
God
,
and
they
cannot
avoid
or
escape
it
:
it
gives
them
chase
day
by
day
,
and
finds
them
out
;
even
when
they
sometimes
put
themselves
by
sin
out
of
the
way
of
it
.
In
all
the
Providences
that
befall
them
,
goodness
and
mercy
pursues
them
.
O
with
what
a
mel●ing
heart
do
they
sometimes
reflect
upon
these
things
!
and
will
not
the
goodness
of
God
be
discouraged
from
following
me
,
notwithstanding
all
my
vile
a●●ronts
and
abuses
of
it
in
former
mercJes
?
Lord
,
what
am
I
,
that
mercy
should
thus
pursue
me
,
when
vengeance
and
wrath
pursue
others
as
good
by
nature
as
I
am
?
It
certainly
argues
the
great
esteem
God
hath
of
a
man
,
when
he
thus
follows
him
with
sanctified
Providences
(
whether
they
be
comforts
or
crosses
)
for
his
good
.
And
so
much
is
plain
,
from
Job
7.
18.
Lord
what
is
man
,
that
thou
shouldst
visit
him
every
morning
,
and
try
him
every
moment
?
Certainly
,
Gods
people
are
his
treasure
,
and
by
this
it
appears
that
they
are
so
,
that
he
withdraws
not
his
eye
from
them
,
Job
36.
7.
I
say
not
,
that
Gods
favour
and
respect
to
a
man
,
may
be
concluded
singly
from
his
Providences
;
but
sanctified
Providences
may
very
much
clear
it
to
us
:
and
when
it
doth
so
,
it
cannot
but
be
matter
of
exceeding
great
joy
.
(
5.
)
To
conclude
,
what
is
there
in
all
this
world
,
that
can
give
a
soul
such
joy
and
comfort
,
as
to
find
himself
by
every
thing
set
on
and
farthered
in
his
way
to
Heaven
!
And
yet
this
may
be
discerned
,
by
an
heedful
attendance
to
the
effects
and
issues
of
Providences
.
How
cross
soever
the
Winds
and
Tides
of
Providence
at
any
time
seem
to
us
,
yet
nothing
is
more
certain
,
than
that
they
all
conspire
to
hasten
sanctified
souls
to
God
,
and
sit
them
for
glory
.
St.
Paul
knew
,
that
both
his
bonds
and
the
afflictions
added
to
them
should
turn
to
,
or
(
as
the
word
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
imports
)
finally
issue
in
his
salvation
,
Phil.
1.
19.
Not
that
in
themselves
they
serve
to
any
such
purpose
;
but
as
they
are
over-ruled
and
determined
to
such
an
end
,
through
Prayer
,
and
the
supply
of
the
Spirit
of
Jesus
Christ
.
When
Prayer
the
external
,
and
the
Spirit
the
internal
means
are
joyned
with
them
;
then
Afflictions
themselves
become
excellent
means
to
promote
salvation
.
And
have
we
not
with
joy
observed
,
how
those
very
things
,
that
sense
and
reason
tell
us
are
opposite
to
our
happiness
,
have
been
the
most
blessed
Instruments
to
promote
it
?
How
hath
God
blessed
Crosses
to
mortifie
corruptJon
,
wants
to
kill
our
wantonness
,
disappointments
to
wean
us
from
the
world
!
O
we
little
think
,
how
comfortable
those
things
will
be
in
the
review
,
which
are
so
burdensome
to
present
sense
▪
The
Third
Motive
IN
the
next
place
,
I
beseech
you
consider
,
What
an
effectual
means
the
due
observation
of
Providence
will
be
to
over-power
and
suppress
the
natural
Atheism
that
is
in
your
hearts
.
There
is
a
natural
seed
of
Atheism
in
the
best
hearts
,
and
this
is
very
much
nourished
,
by
passing
a
rash
and
false
judgement
upon
the
works
of
Providence
.
When
we
see
wicked
ones
to
prosper
in
the
world
,
and
godly
men
crushed
and
destroyed
in
the
way
of
righteousness
and
integrity
;
it
may
tempt
us
to
think
,
there
is
no
advantage
by
religion
,
and
all
our
self-denyal
and
holiness
,
to
be
little
better
than
lost
labour
.
Thus
stood
the
case
with
good
As●ph
,
Psal.
73.
12
,
13.
B●hold
,
these
are
the
ungodly
that
prosper
in
the
world
,
they
increase
in
riches
:
and
what
doth
the
flesh
in●er
from
thence
?
Why
no
less
than
the
unprofitableness
of
the
wayes
of
holiness
,
Verily
I
have
cleansed
my
heart
in
vain
,
and
washed
my
hands
in
innocency
.
This
irreligious
Inference
carnal
reason
was
ready
to
draw
from
the
dispensations
of
outward
prosperity
to
wicked
men
;
but
now
if
we
would
he●dfully
observe
,
either
the
signal
retributions
of
Providence
to
many
of
them
in
this
world
,
or
to
all
of
them
in
the
world
to
come
;
O
what
a
full
confirmation
is
this
to
our
faith
!
Psal.
9.
16.
The
Lord
is
known
by
the
Judgements
that
he
executeth
.
The
fifty
eighth
Psalm
contains
the
Characters
of
the
most
prodigious
sinners
,
whose
wickedness
is
aggravated
,
By
the
deliberation
with
which
it
's
committed
,
V.
2.
By
their
habit
and
custom
in
it
,
V.
3.
By
their
incorrigibleness
and
persistence
in
it
,
V.
4
,
5.
And
the
Providence
of
God
is
there
invited
To
destroy
their
power
,
V.
6.
and
that
either
By
a
gradual
and
insensible
consumption
of
them
,
V.
7
,
8.
or
,
By
a
suddain
and
unexpected
stroke
,
V.
9.
And
what
shall
the
effects
of
such
Providences
be
to
the
Righteous
?
Why
,
it
shall
be
matter
of
joy
,
V.
10.
And
great
confirmation
to
their
faith
in
God
,
V.
11.
Verily
there
is
a
God
that
judgeth
in
the
earth
.
And
on
the
contrary
,
how
convincingly
clear
are
those
Providences
,
that
demonstrate
the
Being
,
Wisdom
,
Power
,
Love
and
Faithfulness
of
God
,
in
the
supporting
,
preserving
and
delivering
of
the
Righteous
,
in
all
their
dangers
,
fears
and
difficulties
?
In
these
things
the
Lord
shews
himself
to
his
people
,
Psal.
94.
1.
Yea
,
he
shews
himself
to
spiritual
eyes
in
these
Providences
,
as
clearly
,
as
the
Sun
manifest●
himself
by
his
own
beams
of
light
,
Hab.
3.
3
,
4.
His
brightness
was
as
the
light
,
and
he
had
borns
coming
out
of
his
hands
,
and
there
was
the
hiding
of
his
power
.
It
's
spoken
of
the
Lords
going
forth
for
his
people
in
their
deliverance
from
their
Enemies
:
and
then
he
had
horns
or
rayes
and
beams
of
power
and
mercy
coming
out
of
his
hands
;
by
his
hands
,
are
meant
his
Providential
administrations
and
dispensations
,
and
the
horns
that
came
out
of
them
,
are
nothing
else
but
the
glorious
display
of
his
Attributes
in
those
Providences
.
How
did
God
make
himself
known
to
his
people
in
that
signal
deliverance
of
them
out
of
Egypt
?
See
Exod.
6.
3.
then
he
was
known
to
them
by
his
name
Jehovah
,
in
giving
being
by
his
Providences
to
the
mercies
promised
.
Thus
when
Christ
shall
give
his
people
the
last
and
greatest
deliverance
from
Antichrist
,
he
shall
shew
himself
to
his
people
in
a
vesture
dipt
in
blood
,
and
his
Name
shall
be
called
,
The
Word
of
God
,
Rev.
19.
13.
His
Name
was
the
Word
of
God
before
;
but
then
he
was
the
Word
revealing
and
discovering
the
promises
and
truths
of
God
;
now
accomplishing
and
fulfilling
them
.
That
his
Name
is
near
,
his
wonderful
works
declare
,
Psal.
75.
1.
But
more
particularly
,
let
us
bring
it
home
to
our
own
experience
.
It
may
be
,
we
find
our selves
sometimes
assaulted
with
Atheistical
thoughts
:
we
are
tempted
to
think
God
hath
left
all
things
below
to
the
course
and
sway
of
nature
,
that
our
prayers
reach
him
not
,
as
it
is
Lam.
3.
44.
that
he
regards
not
what
evils
befall
us
.
But
,
tell
me
Saints
,
have
you
not
enough
at
hand
to
stop
the
mouths
of
all
such
temptations
?
O
do
but
reflect
upon
your
own
Experiences
,
and
solemnly
ask
your
own
hearts
,
(
1.
)
Have
you
never
seen
the
All-sufficient
God
in
the
provisions
he
hath
made
for
you
and
yours
,
throughout
all
the
way
that
you
have
gone
!
Who
was
it
that
supplyed
to
you
whatever
was
needful
in
all
your
straits
?
Was
it
not
the
Lord
?
'T
is
he
that
hath
given
bread
to
them
that
fear
him
,
and
hath
been
ever
mindful
of
his
Covenant
,
Psal.
111.
5.
O
do
but
consider
the
constancy
,
seasonableness
,
and
at
sometimes
the
extraordinariness
of
these
provisions
,
and
how
they
have
been
given
in
upon
prayer
,
and
shut
your
eyes
if
you
can
,
against
the
convincing
evidence
of
that
great
truth
,
Job
36.
7.
He
withdraweth
not
his
eye
from
the
Righteous
.
(
2.
)
Have
you
not
plainly
discerned
the
care
of
God
in
your
preservations
from
so
many
and
great
dangers
as
you
have
escaped
and
been
carried
through
hitherto
?
How
is
it
,
that
you
have
over-lived
so
many
mortal
dangers
,
sicknesses
,
accidents
,
designs
of
Enemies
to
ruine
you
?
It
is
I
presume
,
beyond
question
with
you
,
that
the
very
finger
of
God
hath
been
in
these
things
,
and
that
it
is
by
his
care
alone
,
you
have
been
preserved
.
When
God
had
so
signally
delivered
David
from
a
dangerous
disease
and
the
plots
of
Enemies
against
him
,
by
this
(
saith
he
)
I
know
thou
favourest
me
,
because
mine
enemy
doth
not
trJumph
over
me
,
Psal.
41.
11.
he
gathered
from
those
gracious
protections
,
the
care
God
had
over
him
.
(
3.
)
Have
you
not
plainly
discerned
the
hand
of
God
,
in
the
returns
and
accomplishments
of
your
prayers
?
Nothing
can
be
more
evident
than
this
,
to
men
of
observation
,
Psal.
34.
4
,
5
,
6.
I
sought
the
Lord
,
and
he
heard
me
,
and
delivered
me
from
all
my
fears
.
They
looked
unto
him
and
were
lightned
,
and
their
faces
were
not
ashamed
.
This
poor
man
cryed
,
and
the
Lord
heard
him
,
and
saved
him
out
of
all
his
troubles
.
Parallel
to
this
,
runs
the
experience
of
thousands
and
ten
thousands
of
Christians
this
day
;
they
know
they
have
the
petitions
they
asked
of
him
.
The
Mercy
carries
the
very
impress
and
stamp
of
the
Duty
upon
it
.
So
that
we
can
say
,
This
is
the
Mercy
,
the
very
Mercy
I
have
so
often
sought
God
about
.
O
how
satisfying
,
and
convincing
are
these
things
!
(
4.
)
Have
you
not
evidently
discerned
the
Lords
hand
,
in
the
guiding
and
directing
of
your
paths
,
to
your
unforeseen
advantage
?
Things
that
you
never
projected
for
your selves
,
have
been
brought
about
beyond
all
your
thoughts
.
Many
such
things
are
with
God
;
and
which
of
all
the
Saints
hath
not
●ound
that
word
Jer.
10.
23.
verified
by
clear
and
undeniable
experience
?
The
way
of
man
is
not
in
himself
.
I
presume
,
if
you
will
but
look
over
the
mercies
you
possess
thi●
day
,
you
will
find
three
to
one
,
it
may
be
ten
to
one
thus
wrought
by
the
Lord
for
you
.
And
how
satisfying
beyond
all
Arguments
in
the
world
are
these
experiences
,
That
there
is
a
God
to
whom
his
people
are
exceeding
dear
,
a
God
that
performeth
all
things
for
them
!
(
5.
)
Is
it
not
fully
convictive
,
that
there
is
a
God
who
takes
care
of
you
,
in
as
much
as
you
have
found
in
all
the
temptations
and
difficulties
of
your
lives
his
promises
still
fulfilled
,
and
faithfully
performed
in
all
those
conditions
?
I
appeal
to
your selves
,
if
you
have
not
seen
that
Promise
made
good
,
Psal.
91.
15.
I
will
be
with
him
in
trouble
;
and
that
1
Cor.
10.
13.
God
is
faithful
,
who
will
not
suffer
you
to
be
tempted
above
that
you
are
able
:
but
will
with
the
temptatJon
also
make
a
way
to
escape
,
that
ye
may
be
able
to
bear
it
.
Have
not
these
been
as
clearly
made
out
by
Providence
before
your
eyes
,
as
the
Sun
at
Noon
day
?
What
room
then
is
left
for
Atheistical
suggestions
in
your
breasts
?
The
Fourth
Motive
.
THe
Recording
and
Recognizing
of
the
performances
of
Providence
,
will
be
a
singular
support
to
faith
in
future
exigencJes
.
How
much
advantage
those
things
have
upon
our
souls
,
which
we
have
already
felt
and
tasted
,
beyond
those
which
were
never
relished
by
any
former
experience
?
What
is
Experience
?
but
the
bringing
down
of
the
objects
of
faith
to
the
dijudication
and
test
of
spiritual
sense
?
Now
when
any
thing
hath
been
once
tasted
,
felt
and
judged
by
a
former
Experience
,
it
is
much
more
easily
believed
and
received
when
it
occurrs
again
.
It
's
much
easier
for
faith
to
travel
in
a
path
that
is
well
known
to
it
,
having
formerly
trod
it
,
than
to
beat
out
a
new
one
which
it
never
trod
,
nor
can
see
one
step
before
it
.
Hence
it
is
,
though
there
be
a
difficulty
in
all
the
acts
of
faith
,
yet
scarce
in
any
like
the
first
adventure
it
makes
upon
Christ
;
and
the
reason
lyes
here
,
because
in
the
subsequent
acts
it
hath
all
its
former
experiences
to
aid
and
encourage
it
;
but
in
the
first
adventure
it
hath
none
at
all
of
its
own
,
it
takes
a
path
which
it
never
knew
before
.
To
trust
God
without
any
tryal
or
experience
,
is
a
more
noble
act
of
faith
;
but
to
trust
him
after
we
have
often
tryed
him
,
is
known
to
be
more
easie
.
O'tis
no
small
advantage
to
a
soul
in
a
new
plunge
and
distress
,
to
be
able
to
say
,
This
is
not
the
first
time
I
have
been
in
these
deeps
,
and
yet
emerged
out
of
them
!
Hence
it
was
,
that
Christ
rub'd
up
his
Disciples
memories
with
what
Providence
had
formerly
wrought
for
them
in
a
day
of
straits
,
Matth.
16.
8
,
9
,
10
,
11.
O
ye
of
little
faith
,
why
reason
ye
among
your selves
,
because
ye
have
brought
no
bread
?
do
ye
not
yet
understand
,
neither
remember
?
q.
d.
Were
yo
never
under
any
strait
for
bread
before
now
?
Is
this
the
first
difficulty
that
ever
your
faith
combated
with
?
No
,
no
,
you
have
felt
straits
,
and
experienced
the
power
and
care
of
God
in
supplying
them
,
before
now
;
and
therefore
I
cannot
but
call
you
men
of
little
faith
;
for
a
very
ordinary
and
small
measure
of
faith
,
assisted
with
so
much
experience
as
you
have
had
,
would
enable
you
to
trust
God
.
There
is
as
much
difference
betwixt
believing
before
,
and
after
experience
,
as
there
is
betwixt
swimming
with
bladders
,
and
our
first
venture
into
the
deep
waters
without
them
.
What
a
singular
encouragement
to
faith
do
former
Experiences
yield
it
,
by
answering
all
the
pleas
and
objections
of
unbelief
drawn
from
the
object
of
faith
?
Now
there
be
two
things
that
unbelief
stumbles
at
in
God
:
One
is
his
Power
,
the
other
his
Willingness
to
help
.
(
1.
)
Unbelief
objects
the
impossibility
of
relief
in
deep
distresses
,
Psal.
78.
19.
Can
God
furnish
a
Table
in
the
Wilderness
?
can
be
give
bread
also
?
can
be
provide
flesh
for
his
people
?
O
vile
and
unworthy
thoughts
of
God!
proceeding
from
our
measuring
the
immense
and
boundless
power
of
God
,
by
our
own
line
and
measure
:
because
we
see
not
which
way
relief
should
come
,
we
conclude
,
none
is
to
be
expected
.
But
all
these
reasonings
of
Unbelief
are
vanquisht
by
a
serious
reflection
upon
our
own
Experiences
:
God
hath
helped
,
therefore
he
can
,
Isa.
59.
1.
His
hand
is
not
shortned
:
(
i.
e.
)
he
hath
as
much
power
and
ability
as
formerly
.
(
2.
)
Unbelief
objects
against
the
Will
of
God
,
and
questions
,
whether
he
will
now
be
gracious
,
though
he
hath
formerly
been
so
.
But
after
so
many
experiences
of
his
readiness
to
help
,
what
room
for
doubting
remains
?
Thus
Paul
reasoned
from
the
experience
of
what
he
had
done
,
to
what
he
would
do
,
2
Cor.
1.
10.
and
so
did
David
,
1
Sam.
17.
36.
Indeed
if
a
man
had
never
experienced
the
goodness
of
God
to
him
,
it
were
not
so
heinous
a
sin
to
question
his
willingness
to
do
him
good
;
but
what
place
is
left
after
such
frequent
tryals
?
It
gives
great
encouragement
to
faith
,
as
it
answers
the
objections
of
unbelief
drawn
from
the
subject
.
Now
these
Objections
are
of
two
sorts
also
.
(
1.
)
Such
as
are
drawn
from
our
great
unworthiness
.
How
(
saith
Unbelief
)
can
so
sinful
and
vile
a
creature
expect
,
that
ever
God
should
do
this
or
that
for
me
?
'T
is
true
,
we
find
he
did
great
things
for
Abraham
,
Isaac
,
Jacob
,
Moses
&c.
but
these
were
men
of
eminent
holiness
,
men
that
obeyed
God
,
and
denyed
themselves
for
him
,
and
lived
more
in
a
day
to
his
glory
,
than
ever
I
did
all
my
dayes
.
Well
,
but
what
signifies
all
this
to
a
soul
,
that
under
all
its
sensible
vileness
and
unworthiness
hath
tasted
the
goodness
of
God
as
well
as
they
?
As
unworthy
as
I
am
,
God
hath
been
good
to
me
notwithstanding
:
his
mercy
appeared
first
to
me
,
when
I
was
worse
than
I
am
now
,
both
in
conditJon
and
dispositJon
;
and
therefore
I
will
still
expect
the
continuance
of
his
goodness
to
me
,
though
I
deserve
it
not
.
If
when
we
were
EnemJes
we
were
reconciled
to
God
by
the
death
of
his
Son
,
how
much
more
being
reconciled
,
we
shall
be
saved
by
his
life
?
Rom.
5.
10.
(
2.
)
Such
as
are
drawn
from
the
extremity
of
our
present
condition
,
if
troubles
or
dangers
grow
to
an
height
,
and
we
see
nothing
but
ruine
and
misery
in
the
eye
of
reason
before
us
;
now
umbelief
becomes
importune
and
trouble●ome
to
the
soul
;
now
where
are
thy
prayers
,
●hy
hopes
,
yea
,
where
is
now
thy
God
?
But
all
this
is
easily
put
by
and
avoided
,
by
●onsulting
our
experiences
in
former
cases
.
This
is
not
the
first
time
I
have
been
in
these
straits
,
●or
the
first
time
I
have
had
the
same
doubts
and
despondencies
;
and
yet
,
God
hath
carried
me
●hrough
all
,
Psal.
77.
7
,
8
,
9
,
&c.
This
is
it
that
suffers
not
a
Christian
to
unravel
all
his
hopes
in
an
hour
of
temptation
.
O
how
useful
are
these
●hings
to
the
people
of
God!
The
Fifth
Motive
.
THe
Recognition
of
former
Providences
will
minister
to
your
souls
continual
matter
of
praise
and
thanksgiving
,
which
is
the
very
employment
of
the
Angels
in
Heaven
,
and
the
sweetest
part
of
our
lives
on
Earth
.
See
Psal.
61.
7
,
8.
If
God
will
prepare
Mercy
and
Truth
for
David
,
he
will
prepare
Praises
for
●is
God
,
and
that
daily
.
So
Psal.
71.
6.
By
thee
have
I
been
holden
up
from
the
womb
,
thou
art
he
that
took
me
out
of
my
Mothers
bowels
;
(
there
Mercies
from
the
beginning
are
recognized
.
)
My
praise
shall
be
continually
of
thee
:
there
the
natural
result
of
those
recognitions
is
expressed
.
There
be
five
things
belonging
to
the
praise
of
God
,
and
all
of
them
have
relation
to
his
Providences
exercised
about
us
.
(
1.
)
A
careful
Observation
of
the
Mercles
we
receive
from
him
,
Isa.
41.
17
,
18
,
19
,
20.
This
is
fundamental
to
all
praise
:
God
cannot
●e
glorified
for
the
mercies
we
never
noted
.
(
2.
)
A
faithful
Remembrance
of
the
favour
▪
received
,
Psal.
103.
2.
Bless
the
Lord
,
O
my
soul
▪
and
forget
not
all
his
benefits
.
Hence
the
Lord
brands
the
Ingratitude
of
his
people
,
Psal.
106.
13.
They
soon
forgat
his
works
.
(
3.
)
A
due
Appreciation
and
Valuation
of
every
Providence
that
doth
us
good
,
1
Sam.
12.
24.
That
Providence
that
fed
them
in
the
Wilderness
with
Manna
,
was
a
most
remarkable
Providence
to
them
;
but
they
not
valuing
it
at
its
worth
,
God
had
not
that
praise
for
it
which
he
expected
,
Numb.
11.
6.
(
4.
)
The
Excitation
of
all
the
faculties
and
powers
of
the
soul
in
the
acknowledgement
o●
these
mercies
to
us
.
Thus
David
,
Psal.
103.
1●
Bless
the
Lord
,
O
my
soul
;
and
all
that
is
within
m●
bless
his
holy
name
.
Soul-praise
is
the
very
sou●
of
praise
:
this
is
the
fat
and
marrow
of
that
thank-offering
.
(
5.
)
A
suitable
Retribution
for
the
mercies
received
.
This
David
was
careful
about
,
Psal.
116.
1.
And
the
Lord
taxes
good
HezekJah
for
the
neglect
of
it
,
2
Chron.
32.
24
,
25.
This
consists
in
a
full
and
hearty
resignation
of
all
to
him
,
that
we
have
received
by
Providence
from
him
:
and
in
our
willingness
actually
to
part
with
all
for
him
,
when
he
shall
remand
it
.
Thus
you
see
,
how
all
the
ingredients
to
praise
,
have
respect
to
Providences
.
But
more
particularly
I
will
shew
you
,
that
as
all
the
ingredients
of
praise
have
respect
to
Providence
,
so
all
the
motives
and
Arguments
obliging
and
engaging
souls
to
praise
,
are
found
therein
also
.
To
this
end
consider
,
how
the
mercy
and
goodness
of
God
is
exhibited
by
Providence
,
to
excite
our
thankfulness
.
(
1.
)
That
the
goodness
and
mercy
of
God
is
let
out
upon
his
people
in
his
Providences
about
them
:
and
this
is
the
very
root
of
praise
.
It
is
not
so
much
the
possession
that
Providence
gives
us
of
such
or
such
comforts
,
as
the
goodness
and
kindness
of
God
in
the
dispensing
of
them
,
that
engages
a
gracious
soul
to
praise
,
Psal.
63.
3.
Because
thy
loving
kindness
is
better
than
life
,
my
lips
shall
praise
thee
.
To
give
,
maintain
and
preserve
our
life
,
are
choice
acts
of
Providences
:
but
to
do
all
this
in
a
way
of
grace
and
loving-kindness
,
this
is
far
better
than
the
gifts
themselves
:
life
is
but
the
shadow
of
death
without
it
:
this
is
the
mercy
that
crowns
all
other
mercies
,
Psal.
103.
4.
It
's
this
a
sanctified
soul
desires
God
would
manifest
in
every
Providence
about
him
,
Psal.
17.
7.
and
what
is
our
praising
of
God
else
,
but
our
shewing
forth
that
loving-kindness
,
which
he
sheweth
us
in
his
Providences
?
Psal.
92.
1
,
2.
(
2.
)
As
the
loving-kindness
of
God
manifested
in
Providences
,
is
a
motive
to
praise
;
so
the
free
and
undeserved
savours
of
God
,
dispensed
by
the
hand
of
Providence
,
oblige
the
soul
to
praise
.
This
was
the
consideration
that
melted
David's
heart
into
a
thankful
praising
frame
,
even
the
consideration
of
the
free
and
undeserved
favours
cast
in
upon
him
by
Providence
,
2
Sam.
7.
18.
What
am
I
?
O
Lord
God
:
and
what
is
my
Fathers
house
,
that
thou
hast
brought
me
hitherto
?
(
i.
e.
)
raised
me
by
Providence
from
a
mean
condition
to
all
this
dignity
:
from
following
the
Ewes
,
to
feed
Jacob
his
people
,
Psal.
78.
70
,
71.
O
this
is
it
that
engages
thankfulness
,
Gen.
32.
10.
(
3.
)
As
the
freeness
of
mercies
dispensed
by
Providence
,
engageth
praise
;
so
the
Multitudes
of
mercies
heaped
this
way
upon
us
,
strongly
oblige
the
soul
to
thankfulness
.
Thus
David
comes
before
the
Lord
encompassed
with
a
multitude
of
mercies
to
praise
him
,
Psal.
5.
7.
We
have
our
loads
of
mercies
,
and
that
every
day
,
Psalm
68.
19.
O
what
a
rich
heap
will
the
mercies
of
one
day
make
,
being
laid
together
!
(
4.
)
As
the
multitudes
of
mercies
dispensed
by
Providence
,
oblige
to
praise
;
so
the
tenderness
of
Gods
mercy
manifested
in
his
Providence
,
leaves
the
soul
under
a
strong
obligation
to
thankfulness
.
We
see
what
tender
resentments
the
Lord
hath
of
all
our
wants
,
straits
and
burdens
,
Psalm
103.
13.
Like
as
a
Father
pitJeth
his
Children
,
so
the
Lord
pitJeth
them
that
fear
him
.
He
is
full
of
bowels
,
as
the
word
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
in
James
5.
11.
signifies
.
Yea
,
there
are
not
only
bowels
of
compassion
in
our
God
,
but
the
tenderness
of
bowels
,
like
those
of
a
Mother
to
her
sucking
child
,
Isa.
49.
15.
He
feels
all
our
pains
as
if
the
apple
of
his
eye
were
touched
,
Zech.
2.
8.
and
all
this
is
discovered
to
his
people
in
the
way
of
his
Providences
with
them
,
Psal.
111.
2
,
3
,
4.
O
who
of
all
the
Children
of
God
hath
not
often
found
this
in
his
Providences
?
And
who
can
see
it
,
and
not
be
filled
with
thankfulness
?
All
these
are
so
many
bands
clapt
by
Providence
upon
the
soul
,
to
oblige
it
to
a
li●e
of
praise
.
Hence
it
is
,
that
the
prayers
of
the
Saints
are
so
full
of
thanksgivings
upon
these
accounts
:
't
is
sweet
to
recount
them
to
the
Lord
in
prayer
:
to
lye
at
this
feet
in
an
holy
astonishment
at
his
gracious
condescensions
to
poor
worms
.
The
Sixth
Motive
.
THe
due
observatJon
of
Providence
will
endear
Jesus
Christ
every
day
more
and
more
to
your
souls
.
Christ
is
the
Channel
of
grace
and
mercy
:
through
him
are
all
the
d●cursus
&
recursus
gratiarum
,
all
the
streams
of
mercy
that
●low
from
God
to
us
,
and
all
the
returns
of
praise
from
us
to
God
,
1
Cor.
3.
21
,
22.
All
things
are
ours
upon
no
other
title
,
but
our
being
his
.
Now
there
be
six
things
in
Providence
,
that
are
exceedingly
endearing
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
to
his
people
:
and
these
are
the
most
sweet
and
delicious
parts
of
all
our
enjoyments
.
The
purchase
of
all
those
mercies
which
Providences
convey
to
us
,
is
by
his
own
blood
:
for
not
only
spiritual
and
eternal
mercies
,
but
even
all
our
temporal
ones
,
are
the
acquisition
of
his
blood
.
Look
,
as
sin
forfeited
all
,
so
Christ
restored
all
these
mercies
again
to
us
by
his
death
.
Sin
had
so
shut
up
the
womb
of
mercy
,
that
had
not
Christ
made
an
attonement
by
his
death
,
it
could
never
have
brought
forth
one
mercy
to
all
eternity
for
us
.
It
is
with
him
that
God
freely
gives
us
all
things
,
Rom.
8.
32.
Heaven
it self
,
and
all
things
needful
to
bring
us
thither
,
the
travel
of
his
soul.
The
sanctification
of
all
,
is
by
our
union
with
Christ
:
't
is
by
vertue
of
our
union
with
his
person
,
that
we
enjoy
the
sanctified
gifts
and
blessings
of
Providence
.
All
these
are
mercies
additional
to
that
great
mercy
CHRIST
,
Matth.
6.
33.
they
are
given
with
him
,
as
in
Rom.
8.
32.
this
is
the
Tenure
by
which
we
hold
them
,
1
Cor.
3.
21
,
22
,
23.
Look
,
what
we
lost
in
Adam
,
is
restored
again
with
Advantage
in
Christ
:
immediately
upon
the
fall
,
that
curse
,
Gen.
2.
17.
seized
upon
all
the
miserable
posterity
of
Adam
,
and
upon
all
their
comforts
,
outward
as
well
as
inward
;
and
this
still
lyes
heavy
upon
them
:
All
that
Providence
doth
for
them
that
are
Christless
,
is
but
to
feed
so
many
poor
condemned
wretches
,
till
the
sentence
they
are
under
,
be
executed
upon
them
:
it
is
indeed
bountiful
and
open-handed
to
many
of
them
;
and
fills
them
with
Earthly
comforts
;
but
not
one
special
sanctified
mercy
is
to
be
found
among
all
their
enjoyments
:
these
gifts
of
Providence
do
but
deceive
,
defile
and
destroy
them
through
their
own
corruptions
,
and
for
want
of
union
with
Christ
,
Prov.
1.
32.
The
prosperity
of
fools
shall
destroy
them
.
But
when
a
man
is
once
in
Christ
,
then
all
Providences
are
sanctified
and
sweet
,
Tit.
1.
15.
Vnto
the
pure
,
all
things
are
pure
.
A
little
that
a
righteous
man
hath
,
is
better
than
the
treasures
of
many
wicked
,
Psal.
37.
16.
Now
Christ
becomes
an
head
of
Influence
,
as
well
as
of
DominJon
;
and
in
all
things
he
consults
the
good
of
his
own
members
,
Eph.
1.
22.
The
dispensation
of
all
our
comforts
and
mercies
,
is
by
his
direction
and
appointment
.
It
's
true
,
the
Angels
are
employed
in
the
Kingdom
of
Providence
,
they
move
the
wheels
,
(
i.
e.
)
are
instrumental
in
all
the
revolutions
in
this
lower
world
;
but
still
they
receive
directions
and
orders
from
Christ
,
as
you
may
see
in
that
admirable
Scheme
of
Providences
,
Ezek.
1.
25
,
26
,
&c.
Now
what
an
endearing
meditation
is
this
!
What
ever
Creature
be
instrumental
for
any
good
to
you
,
it
's
your
Lord
Jesus
Christ
that
gave
the
orders
and
commands
to
that
Creature
to
do
it
;
and
without
it
they
could
have
done
nothing
for
you
:
It
's
your
head
in
Heaven
that
consults
your
peace
and
comfort
on
Earth
:
these
be
the
fruits
of
his
care
for
you
.
So
in
the
prevention
and
restraints
of
evil
;
't
is
he
that
bridles
in
the
wrath
of
Devils
and
men
;
he
holds
the
reins
in
his
own
hands
,
Rev.
2.
10.
'T
was
the
care
of
Christ
over
his
poor
Sheep
at
Damascus
,
that
stopt
the
raging
Adversary
who
was
upon
the
way
,
designing
to
destroy
them
,
Acts.
9.
The
continuatJon
of
all
your
mercies
and
comforts
,
outward
as
well
as
inward
,
is
the
fruit
of
his
Intercession
in
Heaven
for
you
.
For
look
,
as
the
offering
up
of
the
Lamb
of
God
a
Sacrifice
for
sin
,
opened
the
door
of
mercy
at
first
;
so
his
appearing
before
God
as
a
Lamb
that
had
been
slain
,
still
keeps
that
door
of
mercy
open
,
Rev.
5.
6.
Heb.
9.
24.
By
this
his
intercession
,
our
peace
and
comforts
are
prolonged
to
us
,
Zech.
1.
12
,
13.
Every
sin
we
commit
,
would
put
and
end
to
the
mercies
we
possess
,
were
it
not
for
that
caution
which
is
put
in
for
us
by
it
,
1
●ohn
2.
1
,
2.
'
If
any
man
sin
,
we
have
an
A●vocate
with
the
Father
,
Jesus
Christ
the
righteous
:
and
he
is
the
propitJatJon
for
our
sins
,
&c.
This
stops
all
pleas
,
and
procures
new
pardons
for
new
sins
.
Hence
it
is
he
saves
to
the
uttermost
,
to
the
last
compleating
act
,
Heb.
7.
25.
New
sins
do
not
irritate
our
former
pardons
,
nor
cut
off
our
priviledges
setled
upon
us
in
Christ
.
The
returns
and
answers
of
all
your
prayers
and
cryes
to
Heaven
for
the
removing
of
your
afflictions
,
or
supply
of
your
wants
,
are
all
procured
and
obtained
for
you
by
Jesus
Christ
.
He
is
the
Master
of
your
requests
;
and
were
it
not
that
God
had
respect
to
him
,
he
would
never
regard
your
cryes
to
him
,
nor
return
any
answer
of
peace
to
you
,
how
great
soever
your
distresses
should
be
,
Rev.
8.
3
,
4.
'T
is
his
name
that
gives
our
prayers
their
acceptance
,
John
15.
16.
because
the
Father
can
deny
him
nothing
,
therefore
your
prayers
are
not
denyed
.
Doth
God
condescend
to
hear
you
in
the
day
of
trouble
?
Doth
he
convince
you
by
your
own
experience
,
that
your
prayers
have
power
with
God
,
and
do
prevail
?
O
see
how
much
you
owe
to
your
dear
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
for
this
high
and
glorious
priviledge
!
The
Covenant
of
Grace
,
in
which
all
your
comfortable
enjoyments
are
comprized
,
and
by
which
they
are
secured
,
sanctified
,
and
sweetned
to
you
,
is
made
in
Christ
,
and
ratified
by
him
betwixt
God
and
you
.
Your
mercies
are
all
comprized
in
this
Covenant
,
even
your
daily
bread
,
Psalm
111.
5.
as
well
as
your
justification
,
and
other
spiritual
mercies
.
'T
is
your
Covenant
interest
,
that
secures
to
you
what
ever
it
comprizes
,
Isa.
55.
3.
hence
they
are
called
the
sure
mercies
of
David
.
Nay
,
this
is
it
that
sanctifies
them
,
and
gives
them
〈◊〉
nature
of
special
and
peculiar
mercies
.
One
〈◊〉
mercy
is
worth
a
thousand
common
mercies
.
And
being
sanctified
and
special
mercies
,
they
must
needs
be
exceeding
sweet
beyond
all
other
mercies
.
On
these
accounts
it
was
▪
that
David
so
rejoiced
in
his
Covenant
I●teres●
,
though
laden
with
many
afflictions
,
●
Sam.
23.
5.
But
now
all
this
hangs
entirely
upon
Christ
.
The
New
Testament
is
in
his
bloo●
,
1
Cor.
11.
●5
.
and
whatever
mercies
you
reap
from
that
Covenant
,
you
must
thank
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
for
them
.
Put
all
this
together
,
and
then
think
how
such
considerations
will
endear
Christ
to
your
souls
!
The
Seventh
Motive
.
THe
due
observations
of
Providence
have
a
marvellous
efficacy
to
melt
the
heart
,
and
make
it
thaw
and
relent
ingenuously
before
the
Lord
.
How
can
a
sanctified
heart
do
less
,
than
melt
into
tears
,
whilst
it
either
considers
the
dealings
of
God
from
time
to
time
with
it
:
or
compares
the
mercies
received
,
with
the
sins
committed
;
or
the
different
administrations
of
Providence
towards
it
self
and
others
!
Let
a
man
but
set
himself
to
think
deliberately
and
closely
of
the
wayes
of
providence
towards
him
,
let
him
but
follow
the
Tract
〈◊〉
●rovidence
,
as
it
hath
led
him
all
along
the
way
that
he
hath
gone
,
and
if
there
be
any
principle
of
gracious
tenderness
in
him
,
he
shall
meet
with
variety
of
occasions
to
excite
and
draw
it
forth
.
Reader
,
go
back
with
thy
serious
thoughts
(
1.
)
To
the
beginning
of
the
wayes
of
God
with
thee
,
the
mercies
that
brake
out
early
in
thy
youth
,
even
the
first
born
mercies
from
the
womb
of
Providence
;
and
thou
wilt
say
,
What
need
I
go
farther
?
Here
is
enough
,
not
only
to
moves
,
but
overwhelm
my
heart
.
May
I
not
from
this
time
cry
unto
thee
,
my
Father
,
thou
art
the
guide
of
my
youth
,
Jer.
3.
4.
What
a
critical
time
is
the
time
of
youth
?
it's
the
moulding
age
;
and
(
ordinarily
)
according
to
the
course
of
those
leading
Providences
,
after
Providences
do
steer
their
course
.
What
levity
,
rashness
,
ignorance
and
strong
propensions
to
sin
and
ruine
accompanied
that
age
?
How
many
being
then
left
to
the
sway
of
their
own
lusts
,
run
themselves
into
those
sins
and
miseries
,
which
they
never
recover
themselves
from
to
their
dying
day
?
These
,
like
the
errors
of
the
first
concoction
,
are
rarely
rectified
afterwards
.
Did
the
Lord
guide
thee
by
his
Providence
,
when
but
a
Child
?
Did
he
then
preserve
thee
from
those
follies
and
miscarriages
,
which
blast
the
very
blossom
,
and
nip
the
bud
,
so
that
no
good
fruit
is
to
be
expected
afterwards
?
Did
he
then
cast
thee
into
such
families
,
or
among
such
company
and
acquaintance
,
as
moulded
and
formed
thy
spirit
to
a
better
temper
?
Did
he
then
direct
thee
into
that
way
of
employment
,
wherein
thou
hast
seen
so
large
a
train
of
happy
consequents
ever
since
following
thee
?
And
wilt
thou
not
from
henceforth
say
,
My
Father
,
my
Father
,
thou
art
the
guide
of
my
youth
?
Or
(
2.
)
Let
us
but
bring
out
thoughts
close
to
the
Providences
of
after
times
,
and
consider
how
the
several
changes
and
removes
of
our
lives
have
been
ordered
for
us
:
Things
we
never
foresaw
nor
designed
(
but
much
better
for
us
,
than
what
we
did
design
)
have
been
all
along
ordered
for
us
.
The
way
of
man
is
not
in
himself
.
Gods
thoughts
have
not
been
our
thoughts
,
nor
his
wayes
our
wayes
.
Among
the
eminent
mercies
of
thy
life
,
Reader
,
how
many
of
them
have
been
meer
surprizals
to
thee
?
Thy
own
projects
have
been
thrust
aside
,
to
make
way
for
better
things
designed
by
Providence
for
thee
.
Nay
,
(
3.
)
Do
but
observe
the
Springs
and
Autumns
of
Providence
,
in
what
order
they
have
flourished
and
faded
with
thee
,
and
thou
wilt
find
thy self
over-powered
with
the
sense
of
Divine
Wisdom
and
Goodness
:
when
necessity
required
,
such
a
friend
was
stirred
up
to
help
thee
,
such
a
place
opened
to
receive
thee
,
such
a
Relation
raised
up
or
continued
to
refresh
thee
:
and
no
sooner
doth
Providence
deprive
thee
of
any
of
them
,
but
either
thy
need
of
them
ceases
,
or
some
other
way
is
opened
to
thee
.
O
the
depth
of
Gods
Wisdom
and
Goodness
!
O
the
matchless
tenderness
of
God
to
his
people
!
(
4.
)
Compare
the
dealings
of
Providence
with
you
and
others
,
yea
,
with
others
that
sprang
up
with
you
in
the
same
generation
,
it
may
be
,
in
the
same
families
,
and
from
the
same
Parents
,
it
may
be
in
families
greater
and
more
flourishing
in
the
world
then
yours
,
and
see
the
difference
,
upon
many
great
accounts
,
it
hath
made
betwixt
you
and
them
.
I
knew
a
ChristJan
,
who
after
many
years
separation
,
was
visited
by
his
own
Brother
,
the
very
sight
of
whom
,
wrought
upon
him
,
much
as
the
sight
of
Benjamin
did
upon
Joseph
,
so
that
he
could
not
refrain
to
fall
upon
his
neck
,
and
weep
for
joy
;
but
after
a
●ew
hours
spent
together
,
finding
the
spirit
of
his
Brother
,
not
only
estranged
●rom
all
that
's
spiritual
and
serious
,
but
also
very
vain
and
prophane
,
he
hastened
to
his
chamber
,
shut
the
door
upon
him
,
threw
himself
down
at
the
feet
of
God
,
and
with
flowing
eyes
,
and
a
melting
heart
,
admired
the
distinguishing
Grace
of
God
,
saying
,
Was
not
Esau
Jacob's
Brother
?
O
Grace
,
Grace
,
astonishing
Grace
!
(
5.
)
Compare
the
carriage
of
Providence
towards
you
,
with
your
own
carriage
towards
the
Lord
;
and
it
must
needs
melt
your
hearts
to
find
so
much
mercy
bestowed
,
where
so
much
sin
hath
been
committed
.
What
place
did
you
ever
live
in
,
where
you
cannot
remember
great
provocations
committed
,
and
manifold
mercies
notwithstanding
that
,
received
?
O
with
how
many
notwithstandings
and
neverthelesses
,
hath
the
Lord
done
you
good
in
every
place
!
What
Relation
hath
not
been
abused
by
sin
;
and
yet
both
raised
up
and
continued
by
Providence
for
your
comfort
?
In
every
place
God
that
left
the
marks
of
his
goodness
,
and
you
the
remembrances
of
your
sinfulness
:
give
your selves
but
leave
to
think
of
these
things
,
and
it
's
strange
if
your
hearts
relent
not
at
the
remembrance
of
them
.
(
6.
)
Or
Lastly
,
Do
but
compare
your
dangers
with
your
fears
,
and
both
with
the
strange
out-letts
and
doors
of
escape
Providence
hath
opened
,
and
it
cannot
do
less
than
over
power
you
with
a
full
sense
of
divine
care
and
goodness
.
There
have
been
dark
clouds
seen
to
rise
over
you
,
judgement
even
at
your
door
,
sometimes
threating
your
life
,
sometimes
your
liberty
,
sometimes
your
estates
,
and
sometimes
your
dearest
relations
,
in
whom
it
may
be
,
your
life
was
bound
up
;
remember
in
that
day
,
what
faintness
of
spirit
seized
you
,
what
charges
of
guilt
stirring
up
fears
of
the
issue
within
you
:
You
turned
to
the
Lord
in
that
distress
,
and
hath
he
not
made
a
way
to
escape
,
and
delivered
you
from
all
your
fears
?
Psal.
34.
4.
Oh
is
your
life
such
a
continued
throng
,
such
a
distracted
hurry
,
that
there
is
no
room
to
be
found
with
Christians
to
sit
alone
,
and
think
on
these
things
,
and
press
these
marvellous
discoveries
of
God
in
his
Providences
upon
their
own
hearts
?
Surely
,
might
these
things
but
lye
upon
our
hearts
,
talk
with
our
thoughts
by
day
,
and
lodge
with
us
at
night
;
they
would
even
force
their
passage
down
to
our
very
Reins
.
The
Eighth
Motive
.
DVe
observation
of
Providence
will
both
beget
and
secure
inward
tranquillity
in
your
minds
amidst
the
viciss●udes
and
revolutions
of
things
in
this
unstable
vain
world
.
Psal
4.
8.
I
will
both
lay
me
down
in
peace
,
and
sleep
,
for
the
Lord
only
maketh
me
dwell
in
safety
.
He
resolves
the
sinful
fears
of
Events
shall
not
rob
him
of
his
inward
quiet
,
nor
torture
his
thoughts
with
anxious
presages
:
he
will
commit
all
his
concerns
into
that
faithful
fatherly
hand
that
had
hitherto
wrought
all
things
for
him
,
and
he
means
not
to
lose
the
comfort
of
one
nights
rest
,
nor
bring
the
evil
of
to
morrow
upon
the
day
,
but
knowing
in
whose
hand
he
was
,
wisely
enjoyes
the
sweet
felicity
of
a
resigned
will
.
Now
this
Tranquillity
of
our
minds
is
as
much
begotten
and
preserved
by
a
due
consideration
of
Providence
,
as
by
any
thing
whatsoever
.
Hence
it
was
,
that
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
when
he
would
cure
the
Disciples
anxious
and
distracting
sollicitudes
about
a
livelihood
,
bids
them
consider
the
care
Providence
hath
over
the
Birds
of
the
air
,
and
the
Lillies
of
the
field
,
how
it
feeds
the
one
,
and
clothes
the
other
without
any
anxious
care
of
theirs
;
and
would
have
them
well
consider
those
Providences
,
and
reason
themselves
into
a
calm
and
sweet
composure
of
spirit
from
those
considerations
,
Mat.
6.
27
,
28
,
29
,
30
,
31.
Two
things
destroy
the
peace
and
tranquillity
of
our
lives
,
our
bewailing
past
disappointments
,
or
fearing
future
ones
.
But
would
we
once
learn
prevision
and
provision
to
be
divine
prerogatives
,
and
take
notice
how
often
Providence
baffles
those
that
pretend
to
it
,
causing
the
good
they
foresaw
(
according
to
their
conjectures
)
coming
to
their
hand
,
yet
to
balk
them
and
●lee
from
them
:
and
the
evil
they
thought
themselves
sufficiently
secured
from
,
to
invade
them
.
I
say
,
would
we
consider
how
Providence
daily
baffles
these
Pretensions
of
men
,
and
asserts
its
own
Dominion
,
it
would
greatly
conduce
to
the
tranquillity
of
our
lives
.
This
is
a
great
truth
,
that
there
is
no
face
of
Adversity
of
formidable
,
but
being
viewed
from
this
station
,
would
become
amicable
.
Now
there
be
several
things
in
the
consideration
of
Providence
,
that
naturally
and
kindly
compose
the
mind
of
a
Christian
to
peace
,
and
bring
it
to
a
sweet
rest
,
whilst
events
hang
in
a
doubtful
suspense
.
As
First
,
The
Supremacy
of
Providence
,
and
its
uncontroulable
power
in
working
.
This
is
often
seen
in
the
good
that
it
brings
us
in
a
way
that
's
above
the
thoughts
and
cares
of
our
minds
,
or
labour
of
our
hands
.
I
had
not
thought
(
said
Jacob
)
to
have
seen
thy
face
;
and
lo
,
God
hath
shewed
me
thy
seed
also
,
Gen.
48.
11.
There
is
a
frequent
coincidency
of
Providences
in
a
way
of
surprizal
,
which
from
no
appearance
,
or
the
remotest
tendency
of
outward
causes
could
be
foreseen
,
but
rather
falls
visibly
cross
to
the
present
Scheme
,
and
posture
of
our
affairs
.
Nothing
tends
to
convince
us
of
the
vanity
and
folly
of
our
own
sollicitudes
and
projections
,
more
than
this
doth
.
The
profound
Wisdom
of
Providence
in
all
that
it
performeth
for
the
people
of
God
.
The
Wheels
are
full
of
eyes
,
Ezek.
1.
18.
(
i.e.
)
there
is
an
intelligent
and
wise
Spirit
that
sits
upon
,
This
Wisdom
shines
out
to
us
in
the
unexpected
,
yea
,
contrary
events
of
things
.
How
o●ten
have
we
been
courting
some
beautiful
appearance
that
invited
our
senses
,
and
with
trembling
shun'd
the
formidable
face
of
other
things
,
when
notwithstanding
the
issues
of
Providence
have
convinced
us
,
that
our
danger
lay
in
what
we
cou●ted
,
and
our
good
in
what
we
so
studiously
declined
?
This
also
is
a
sweet
principle
of
peace
and
quiet
to
the
Christians
mind
,
that
he
knows
not
,
but
his
good
may
be
imported
in
what
seemed
to
threaten
his
ruine
.
Many
were
the
distresses
and
straits
of
Israel
in
the
Wilderness
,
but
all
was
to
humble
them
,
that
he
might
do
them
good
in
the
latter
end
,
Deut.
8.
16.
Sad
and
dismal
was
the
face
of
that
Providence
that
sent
them
out
of
their
own
land
,
into
the
land
of
the
Chaldeans
;
yet
even
this
was
a
project
to
do
them
good
,
Jer.
24.
5.
How
often
have
we
retracted
our
rash
and
headlong
censures
of
things
upon
experience
of
this
truth
!
and
been
taught
to
bless
our
afflictions
and
disappointments
in
the
name
of
the
Lord
.
Many
a
time
have
we
kissed
those
troubles
at
parting
,
which
we
met
with
trembling
.
And
what
can
promote
peace
under
doubtful
Providences
more
effectually
than
this
?
The
experiences
we
have
had
throughout
our
lives
of
the
faithfulness
and
constancy
of
Providence
,
are
of
excellent
use
to
allay
and
quiet
our
hearts
in
any
trouble
that
befalls
us
.
Hitherto
God
hath
helped
,
1
Sam.
7.
12.
We
never
found
him
wanting
to
us
in
any
case
hitherto
:
this
●s
not
the
first
:
strait
we
have
been
in
:
the
first
time
that
our
hearts
and
hopes
have
been
low
.
Surely
,
he
is
the
same
God
now
as
heretofore
,
his
hand
is
not
shortned
,
neither
doth
his
faithfulness
●ail
.
O
recount
in
how
great
extremities
former
experience
hath
taught
you
not
to
despair
!
The
conjectures
Christians
may
make
of
the
way
of
Providence
towards
them
,
from
what
its
former
methods
have
been
towards
them
,
is
exceeding
quieting
and
comfortable
.
It
's
usual
with
Christians
,
to
compare
times
with
times
,
and
to
guess
at
the
issue
of
one
Providence
by
another
.
The
Saints
do
know
what
course
Providence
usually
holds
,
and
accordingly
with
great
probability
collect
what
they
may
expect
from
what
in
like
cases
they
have
formerly
observed
.
Christian
,
examine
thine
own
heart
,
and
its
former
observations
,
and
thou
wilt
find
,
as
Psal.
89.
30
,
31
,
32.
that
it's
usually
the
way
of
God
to
prepare
some
smart
rods
to
correct
thee
,
when
either
thy
heart
hath
secretly
revolted
from
God
,
and
is
grown
vain
,
careless
and
sensual
,
or
when
thy
steps
have
declined
,
and
thou
hast
turned
aside
to
the
commission
of
iniquity
.
And
then
when
those
rods
have
been
sanctified
to
humble
,
reduce
and
purge
thy
heart
,
it
's
usually
observed
,
that
those
sad
Providences
are
then
upon
the
change
,
and
then
the
Lord
changes
the
voice
of
his
Providence
towards
thee
,
Jer.
3.
12
,
13.
Go
,
and
proclaim
these
words
towards
the
North
,
and
say
,
Return
thou
backsliding
Israel
,
saith
the
Lord
,
and
I
will
not
cause
mine
anger
to
fall
upon
you
,
for
I
am
merciful
,
saith
the
Lord
,
and
I
will
not
keep
anger
for
ever
.
Only
acknowledge
thine
iniquity
,
&c.
If
therefore
I
find
the
blessed
effects
of
the
rod
upon
me
,
that
it
hath
done
its
work
,
to
break
the
hard
heart
,
and
pull
down
the
proud
heart
,
and
awaken
the
drowsie
heart
,
and
quicken
the
slothful
,
negligent
,
lazy
heart
;
now
with
great
probability
I
may
conjecture
,
a
more
comfortable
aspect
of
Providence
will
quickly
appear
,
the
refreshing
and
reviving
time
is
nigh
.
It
is
usual
with
Christians
,
to
argue
themselves
into
fresh
reviving
hopes
,
when
the
state
of
things
is
most
forlorn
,
by
comparing
the
Providences
of
God
one
with
another
.
(
1.
)
It
is
a
mighty
composing
meditation
,
when
we
compare
the
Providences
of
God
towards
the
inanimate
and
irrational
Creatures
,
with
his
Providences
towards
us
.
Doth
he
take
care
for
the
very
Fowls
of
the
air
,
for
whom
no
man
provides
,
as
well
as
those
at
the
door
which
we
daily
feed
?
Doth
he
so
clothe
the
very
Grass
of
the
field
?
hear
the
young
Ravens
,
when
they
cry
for
meat
?
and
can
it
be
supposed
,
he
should
forget
his
own
people
,
that
are
of
much
more
value
than
these
?
(
2.
)
Or
if
we
compare
the
bounty
and
care
that
Providence
hath
expressed
to
the
Enemies
of
God
,
how
it
feeds
and
clothes
and
protects
them
,
even
whilst
they
are
fighting
against
him
with
his
own
mercies
;
it
cannot
but
quiet
and
satisfie
us
,
that
surely
he
will
not
be
wanting
to
that
people
upon
whom
he
hath
set
his
love
,
to
whom
he
hath
given
his
Son
,
and
for
whom
he
hath
designed
Heaven
it self
.
(
3.
)
Or
Lastly
,
It
must
needs
quiet
us
,
when
we
consider
,
what
the
Lord
did
for
us
in
the
way
of
his
Providence
,
when
we
our selves
were
in
the
state
of
nature
,
and
enmity
against
God
.
Did
he
not
then
look
after
us
,
when
we
knew
him
not
?
provided
for
us
,
when
we
owned
him
not
in
any
of
his
mercies
?
bestowed
thousands
of
mercies
upon
us
,
when
we
had
no
title
to
Christ
or
any
one
promise
?
and
will
he
now
do
less
for
us
,
since
we
are
reconciled
and
become
his
Children
?
Surely
,
such
considerations
as
these
,
cannot
:
but
fill
the
soul
with
peace
,
and
preserve
the
tranquillity
of
it
under
the
most
distracting
Providences
.
The
Ninth
Motive
.
DVe
observations
of
the
wayes
of
God
in
his
Providences
towards
us
,
have
an
excellent
usefulness
and
aptitude
to
advance
and
improve
Holiness
in
our
hearts
and
lives
.
For
,
The
Holiness
of
God
is
manifested
to
us
in
all
his
works
of
Providence
,
Psal.
145.
17.
The
Lord
is
righteous
in
all
his
ways
,
and
holy
in
all
his
works
.
The
Instruments
used
by
Providence
may
be
very
sinful
&
wicked
,
they
may
aim
at
base
ends
,
&
make
use
of
wicked
mediums
to
attain
them
;
but
it
's
certain
Gods
designs
are
most
pure
,
and
all
his
workings
are
so
too
.
Though
he
permits
,
limits
,
orders
and
over-rules
many
unholy
persons
and
actions
;
yet
in
all
he
works
like
himself
;
and
his
Holiness
is
no
more
defiled
and
stained
by
their
impurity
;
than
the
Sun-beams
are
by
the
noisome
exhalations
of
a
dunghill
,
Deut.
32.
4.
He
is
the
rock
,
his
work
is
perfect
;
for
all
his
wayes
are
judgement
,
a
God
of
truth
,
and
without
iniquity
:
just
and
right
is
he
.
So
that
in
all
his
Providences
he
sets
before
us
a
perfect
pattern
of
holiness
,
that
we
might
be
holy
in
all
our
wayes
,
as
our
Father
is
in
all
his
wayes
.
But
this
is
not
all
.
His
Providences
if
duely
observed
,
promote
Holiness
,
by
stopping
up
our
way
to
sin
.
Oh
if
men
would
but
note
the
designs
of
God
in
his
preventive
Providences
,
how
useful
would
it
be
to
keep
them
upright
and
holy
in
their
wayes
?
For
why
is
it
,
that
the
Lord
so
often
hedges
up
our
way
with
thorns
,
as
it
is
Hosea
2.
6.
but
that
we
should
not
●ind
our
paths
to
sin
?
Why
doth
he
clogg
us
,
but
to
prevent
our
straying
from
him
?
2
Cor.
12.
7.
Lest
I
should
be
exalted
above
measure
,
there
was
given
me
a
thorn
in
the
slesh
,
a
messenger
of
Satan
to
buffet
me
.
O
't
is
good
to
attend
to
these
works
of
God
,
and
study
the
meaning
of
them
.
Sometimes
Providence
crosseth
a
hopeful
thriving
project
to
advance
our
estate
,
and
frustrates
all
our
labours
and
cares
;
Why
is
this
?
but
to
hide
pride
from
man
.
Shouldst
thou
prosper
in
the
world
,
that
prosperity
might
be
thy
snare
,
and
make
thee
a
proud
,
sensual
,
vain
●oul
;
the
Lord
Jesus
sees
this
,
and
therefore
withdraws
the
food
and
fuel
from
thy
corruptions
.
It
may
be
thou
hast
a
crazy
,
diseased
,
weak
body
;
thou
labourest
under
often
infirmities
:
in
this
,
the
Wisdom
and
Care
of
God
over
thy
soul
is
manifested
;
for
wert
thou
not
so
clogged
,
how
probable
is
it
,
that
much
more
guilt
might
be
contracted
?
Your
poverty
doth
but
clog
your
pride
;
reproaches
clog
your
ambition
:
want
prevents
wantonness
:
sickness
of
body
conduces
to
the
prevention
of
many
inward
gripes
of
conscience
,
and
groans
under
guilt
.
The
Providences
of
God
may
be
observed
to
conduce
to
our
holiness
,
not
only
by
preventing
sin
,
p.
2.
p.
22
▪
that
we
may
not
●all
into
it
;
but
also
by
purging
our
sins
when
we
are
fallen
into
them
,
Isa.
27.
9.
By
this
therefore
shall
the
iniquity
of
Jacob
be
purged
;
and
this
is
all
the
fruit
to
take
away
his
sin
.
So
Dan.
11.
33
,
34
,
35.
they
are
of
the
same
use
that
fire
and
water
are
for
purging
and
cleansing
;
not
that
they
can
purge
us
from
sin
in
their
own
vertue
and
power
,
for
if
so
,
those
that
have
most
afflictions
would
have
most
grace
also
;
but
it
is
in
the
vertue
of
Christ's
blood
,
and
God's
blessing
upon
afflictive
Providences
,
that
they
purge
us
from
sin
.
A
Cross
without
a
Crist
never
did
any
man
good
.
Now
in
God's
afflictive
Providences
for
sin
there
are
many
things
that
tend
to
the
purging
of
it
.
For
(
1.
)
Such
rebukes
of
Providence
discover
the
displeasure
of
God
against
us
:
the
Lord
frowns
upon
us
in
those
Providences
.
Our
father
is
angry
,
and
these
are
the
tokens
of
it
;
and
nothing
works
more
to
the
melting
of
a
gracious
hear●
than
this
.
Must
not
the
heart
of
a
Child
melt
and
break
whil'st
the
father
is
angry
.
O
this
is
more
bitter
to
our
Spirits
than
all
the
smart
and
anguish
of
the
affliction
can
be
to
our
flesh
.
See
Psal.
38.
1
,
2
,
3.
O
Lord
rebuke
me
not
in
thy
wrath
;
neither
chasten
me
in
thy
hot
displeasure
:
for
thine
arrows
stick
fast
in
me
;
and
thine
band
presseth
me
sore
.
There
is
no
soundness
in
my
flesh
because
of
thine
anger
:
neither
is
there
any
rest
in
my
bones
because
of
my
sin
.
(
2.
)
By
these
rebukes
of
sin
,
the
evil
of
sin
is
discovered
more
sensibly
to
us
,
and
we
are
made
to
see
more
clearly
the
evil
of
it
in
these
glasses
of
affliction
which
Providence
at
such
times
sets
before
us
,
than
formerly
we
ever
saw
.
Jer.
2.
19.
Thine
own
wickedness
shall
correct
thee
;
and
thy
backslidings
shall
reprove
thee
,
know
therefore
and
see
that
it
is
an
evil
thing
and
bitter
,
that
thou
hast
forsaken
the
Lord
thy
God
,
and
that
my
fear
is
not
in
thee
,
saith
the
Lord
of
Hosts
.
O
the
Gall
and
Wormwood
that
we
taste
in
it
under
God's
rebukes
for
it
!
(
3.
)
Providence
blasts
and
frustrates
all
sinful
projects
to
the
people
of
God
:
whoever
thrives
in
them
,
they
shall
not
.
Isa.
30.
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5.
And
this
also
convinces
them
of
the
folly
that
is
in
sin
,
and
makes
them
cleave
to
the
way
of
simplicity
and
integrity
.
Holiness
is
promoted
in
the
soul
by
cautioning
and
warning
the
soul
against
sin
for
time
to
come
.
Job
34.
31
▪
I
have
born
chastisement
,
I
will
not
offend
any
more
.
O
happy
Providences
,
how
smart
soever
,
that
make
the
soul
for
ever
a●raid
of
sin
!
surely
such
rods
are
well
bestow'd
.
This
gives
God
his
end
:
and
if
ever
we
sorrowed
after
a
godly
sort
,
in
the
day
of
our
troubles
it
will
work
this
carefulness
.
2
Cor.
7.
11.
Behold
this
self
same
thing
that
ye
sorrowed
after
a
godly
sort
,
what
carefulness
it
wrought
in
you
,
&c.
O
if
ever
a
man
have
been
under
a
sanctified
rod
which
hath
shewed
him
the
evil
of
sin
,
and
kindly
humbled
him
for
it
;
and
a
temptation
should
again
sollicite
him
to
the
same
evil
:
Why
thinks
he
,
what
a
madness
is
it
for
me
to
buy
repentance
at
so
dear
a
rate
?
Have
I
not
smarted
enough
already
?
You
may
as
well
ask
me
,
whether
I
will
run
again
into
the
●ire
,
after
I
have
been
already
scorcht
in
it
?
To
conclude
,
Providences
do
greatly
improve
and
promote
holiness
by
drawing
the
Soul
into
the
presence
of
God
,
and
giving
it
the
opportunity
and
occasion
of
much
communion
with
him
.
Comfortable
Providences
will
do
this
,
they
will
melt
a
man's
heart
in
love
to
the
God
of
his
mercies
,
and
so
pain
his
bowels
that
he
shall
not
be
quiet
till
he
have
found
a
place
to
pour
out
his
Soul
in
thankfulness
to
the
Lord
.
2
Sam.
7.
18.
Afflictive
Providences
will
drive
us
to
the
feet
:
of
God
,
and
there
make
us
to
judge
and
condemn
our selves
.
And
all
this
hath
an
excellent
use
to
destroy
sin
,
and
promote
holiness
in
the
Soul
.
The
Tenth
Motive
.
LAstly
,
The
ConsideratJon
and
study
of
Providence
will
be
of
singular
use
to
us
in
a
dying
hour
.
Hereby
we
treasure
up
that
which
will
singularly
sweeten
our
death
to
us
,
and
greatly
assist
our
faith
in
the
last
encounter
.
You
find
when
Jacob
dyed
,
what
reflections
he
had
upon
the
dealings
of
God
with
him
in
the
various
Providences
of
his
life
.
See
Gen.
4.
8.
3
,
7
,
15
,
16.
In
like
manner
you
●ind
Joshua
recording
the
Providences
of
God
when
at
the
brink
of
the
grave
:
they
were
the
subject
of
his
dying
discourse
.
Josh.
24.
And
I
cannot
but
think
it
a
sweet
close
to
the
life
of
any
Christian
:
It
must
needs
sweeten
a
death-bed
to
recount
there
the
several
remarkable
passages
of
God's
care
and
love
to
us
from
our
beginning
to
that
day
:
to
reflect
upon
the
mercies
that
went
along
with
us
all
the
way
,
when
we
are
come
to
the
end
of
it
.
O
Christians
,
treasure
up
these
instances
for
such
a
time
as
that
is
;
that
you
may
go
out
of
the
world
blessing
God
for
all
the
goodness
and
truth
he
hath
performed
to
you
all
your
life
long
.
Now
the
meditations
of
these
things
must
needs
be
of
great
use
in
that
day
,
if
you
consider
the
following
particulars
.
The
time
of
Death
is
the
time
when
Souls
are
usually
most
violently
assaulted
by
Satan
with
horrid
temptations
and
black
suggestions
.
We
may
say
of
that
●igurative
,
as
it
's
said
of
▪
the
natural
Serpent
,
nunquam
nisi
morJens
,
producitur
in
longum
,
He
never
exerts
his
utmost
rage
till
the
last
encounter
;
and
then
his
great
design
is
to
perswade
the
Saints
,
that
God
loves
them
not
,
hath
no
care
nor
regard
for
them
,
nor
their
cryes
;
though
they
pray
for
ease
and
cry
for
sparing
mercy
,
they
see
none
comes
.
He
handles
them
with
as
much
roughness
and
severity
as
other
men
;
yea
,
many
of
the
vilest
and
most
dissolute
wretches
endure
less
torments
,
and
are
more
gently
handled
than
they
.
Psal.
73.
4.
there
are
no
bands
in
their
death
,
when
as
thou
must
go
through
a
long
lane
of
sickness
to
the
grave
,
and
endure
many
deaths
in
one
.
But
what
credit
can
these
plausible
tales
of
Satan
obtain
with
a
Christian
who
hath
been
treasuring
up
all
his
life
long
the
memorJals
of
God's
tender
regard
both
to
his
wants
and
prayers
,
and
that
hath
care●ully
remarked
the
evident
returns
of
his
prayers
,
and
gracious
condescensions
of
God
to
him
●rom
his
beginning
to
that
moment
?
In
this
case
his
saith
is
mightily
assisted
by
thousands
of
experiences
which
back
and
encourage
it
,
and
will
not
suffer
the
soul
to
give
up
so
easily
a
truth
which
he
hath
so
often
sensibly
felt
and
tasted
.
I
am
sure
(
saith
he
)
God
hath
had
a
tender
fatherly
care
of
me
ever
since
I
became
his
:
he
never
failed
me
yet
in
any
former
strait
;
and
I
cannot
believe
he
will
do
so
now
.
I
know
his
love
is
like
himself
,
unchangeable
.
Job
.
13.
1.
having
loved
his
own
which
were
in
the
world
he
loved
them
unto
the
end
:
for
this
God
is
our
God
for
ever
and
ever
,
he
will
be
our
guide
even
unto
death
.
Psal.
48.
14.
Did
he
love
me
in
my
youth
,
and
will
he
cast
me
off
in
my
decrepit
age
?
O
God
,
(
saith
the
Psalmist
)
thou
hast
taught
me
from
my
youth
,
and
hitherto
have
I
declared
thy
wondrous
works
,
now
also
when
I
am
old
and
gray
headed
,
O
God
,
forsake
me
not
,
Psal.
71.
17
,
18.
At
death
the
Saints
are
engaged
in
the
last
,
and
one
of
the
most
eminent
works
of
faith
,
even
the
committing
themselves
into
the
hands
of
God
,
when
we
are
lanching
forth
into
that
vast
Eternity
,
and
entring
into
that
new
state
which
will
make
so
great
a
change
upon
us
in
a
moment
.
In
this
Christ
sets
us
a
pattern
,
Luke
23.
46.
Father
into
thy
hands
I
commend
my
spirit
;
and
having
said
thus
he
gave
up
the
Ghost
.
So
Stephen
at
his
death
,
Lord
Jesus
,
receive
my
spirit
,
and
immediately
fell
asleep
,
Act.
7.
59.
There
be
two
signal
and
remarkable
acts
of
faith
,
both
exceedingly
difficult
,
viz.
its
first
act
,
and
its
last
.
The
first
is
a
great
venture
that
it
makes
of
it self
upon
Christ
:
and
the
last
is
a
great
venture
too
,
to
cast
it self
into
the
Ocean
of
Eternity
upon
the
credit
of
a
Promise
.
But
yet
I
know
the
first
adventure
of
the
Soul
upon
Christ
is
much
more
difficult
than
the
last
adventure
upon
death
;
and
that
which
makes
it
so
is
in
great
measure
,
the
manifold
recorded
experiences
that
the
Soul
hath
been
gathering
up
from
the
day
of
its
espousals
to
Christ
unto
its
dying
which
is
(
in
a
sense
)
its
marriage
day
.
Oh
with
what
encouragement
may
a
Soul
throw
himself
into
the
arms
of
that
God
with
whom
he
hath
so
long
conversed
and
walked
in
this
world
!
Whose
visits
have
been
sweet
and
frequent
,
with
whom
the
soul
hath
contracted
so
intimate
acquaintance
in
this
world
;
whom
it
hath
committed
all
its
affairs
to
formerly
,
and
still
●ound
him
a
faithful
God
;
and
now
hath
no
reason
to
doubt
,
but
it
shall
find
him
so
in
this
last
distress
and
exigence
also
.
At
death
the
people
of
God
receive
the
last
mercies
that
ever
they
shall
receive
in
this
world
by
the
hand
of
Providence
,
and
are
immediately
to
make
up
their
Accounts
with
God
●or
all
the
mercies
that
ever
they
received
from
his
hand
.
What
can
be
more
suitable
therefore
to
a
dying
person
,
than
to
recount
with
himself
the
mercies
of
his
whole
life
,
the
manifold
receipts
of
favour
for
which
he
is
to
reckon
with
God
speedily
:
and
how
shall
this
be
done
without
a
due
and
serious
observation
and
recording
of
them
now
?
I
know
there
are
thousands
of
mercies
forgotten
by
the
best
of
Christians
:
a
memory
of
brass
cannot
contain
them
:
And
I
know
also
that
Jesus
Christ
must
make
up
the
Account
for
us
,
or
it
will
never
pass
with
God
;
yet
it
is
our
duty
to
keep
the
Accounts
of
our
own
mercies
,
and
how
they
have
been
improv'd
by
us
,
for
we
are
Stewards
,
and
then
are
to
give
an
Account
of
our
Stewardship
.
At
death
we
owe
an
Account
also
to
men
,
and
stand
obliged
(
if
there
be
opportunity
for
it
)
to
make
known
to
them
that
survive
us
what
we
have
seen
and
found
of
God
in
this
world
,
that
we
may
leave
a
testimony
for
God
with
men
,
and
bring
up
a
good
report
upon
his
ways
.
Thus
dying
Jacob
when
Joseph
was
come
to
take
his
last
farewell
of
him
in
this
world
,
strengthened
himself
and
sate
upon
the
bed
,
and
related
to
him
the
eminent
appearances
of
God
to
him
,
and
the
places
where
,
Gen.
48.
2
,
3.
as
also
an
account
of
his
afflictions
,
Verse
7.
So
Joshua
in
his
last
speech
to
the
people
makes
it
his
business
to
vindicate
and
clear
the
truth
of
the
Promises
,
by
recounting
to
them
how
the
Providence
of
God
had
fulfill'd
the
same
to
a
tittle
in
his
day
.
Josh.
23.
14.
And
behold
(
saith
he
)
this
day
I
am
going
the
way
of
all
the
earth
,
and
ye
know
in
all
your
hearts
,
and
in
all
your
souls
,
that
not
one
thing
hath
failed
of
all
the
good
things
which
the
Lord
your
God
spake
concerning
you
;
all
are
come
to
pass
unto
you
,
and
not
one
thing
hath
failed
thereof
.
And
certainly
't
is
of
great
importance
to
the
world
,
to
understand
the
Judgements
,
and
hear
of
the
Experiences
of
dying
men
.
They
of
all
men
are
presumed
to
be
most
wise
and
most
serious
:
Besides
,
this
is
the
last
opportunity
that
ever
we
shall
have
in
this
world
to
speak
for
God
.
O
then
what
a
sweet
thing
would
it
be
to
close
up
our
lives
with
an
honourable
Account
of
the
ways
of
God!
to
go
out
of
the
world
blessing
him
for
all
the
mercies
and
truth
which
he
hath
here
performed
to
us
!
how
would
this
encourage
weak
Christians
,
and
convince
the
Atheistical
world
,
that
verily
there
is
a
reality
and
an
excellency
in
the
ways
and
people
of
God!
At
death
we
begin
the
Angelical
life
of
praise
and
thanksgiving
.
We
then
enter
upon
that
everlasting
sweet
employment
;
and
as
I
doubt
not
but
the
Providences
in
which
we
were
concerned
in
this
world
will
be
a
part
of
that
Song
which
we
shall
sing
in
Heaven
,
so
certainly
it
will
become
us
to
tune
our
hearts
and
tongues
for
it
whil'st
we
are
here
,
and
especially
when
we
are
ready
to
enter
upon
that
blessed
state
.
O
therefore
let
it
be
your
daily
meditation
and
study
what
God
hath
been
to
you
,
and
done
for
you
,
from
the
beginning
of
his
way
hitherto
.
And
thus
I
have
spread
before
you
some
encouragements
to
this
blessed
work
.
Oh
that
you
would
be
perswaded
to
this
lovely
and
every
way
bene●icial
practice
.
This
I
dare
presume
to
say
,
that
whoever
finds
a
careful
and
a
thankful
heart
to
record
and
treasure
up
the
daily
experiences
of
God's
mercy
to
him
,
shall
never
want
new
mercies
to
record
to
his
dying
day
.
It
was
said
of
ClaudJan
that
he
wanted
matter
suitable
to
the
excellency
of
his
parts
;
but
where
is
the
head
or
heart
that
is
suitable
to
this
matter
?
who
can
utter
the
mighty
works
of
the
Lord
?
who
can
shew
forth
all
his
praise
?
Psal.
106.
2.
Thus
I
have
through
the
aid
of
Providence
dispatched
the
main
design
I
aimed
at
in
the
choice
of
this
subject
.
All
that
remains
will
now
be
speedily
finished
in
some
few
Corollaries
to
be
brie●ly
noted
upon
the
whole
,
and
three
or
four
practical
Cases
to
be
stated
.
You
have
heard
how
Providence
per●ormeth
all
things
for
you
▪
Learn
thence
,
First
Corollary
.
THat
God
is
therefore
to
be
owned
by
you
in
all
that
befalls
you
in
this
world
,
whether
it
be
in
●
way
of
success
and
comfort
,
or
of
trouble
and
afflictJon
.
O
't
is
your
duty
to
observe
his
hand
and
disposal
:
When
God
gives
you
comforts
,
't
is
your
great
evil
not
to
observe
his
hand
in
them
.
Hence
was
that
charge
against
Israel
,
●os
.
2.
8.
She
did
not
know
that
I
gave
her
Corn
and
Wine
and
Oil
,
and
multiplJed
her
Silver
and
Gold
(
i.
e.
)
she
did
not
actually
and
affectionately
consider
my
care
over
her
and
goodness
to
her
,
in
these
mercies
.
And
so
for
afflictions
,
't
is
a
great
wickedness
,
when
God's
hand
is
listed
up
not
to
see
it
.
Isa.
26.
11.
The
Ox
knows
his
owner
,
and
the
Ass
his
masters
crib
,
Isa.
1.
3.
the
most
dull
and
stupid
creatures
know
their
benefactors
.
O
look
to
the
hand
of
God
in
all
;
and
know
,
that
neither
your
comforts
nor
afflictions
do
arise
out
of
the
dust
,
or
spring
up
out
of
the
ground
.
Second
Corollary
.
IF
God
perform
all
things
for
you
,
how
great
is
his
condescensJon
to
and
care
over
his
people
!
What
is
man
(
saith
Job
,
chap.
7.
v.
17
,
18.
)
that
thou
shouldst
magnifJe
him
,
and
set
thine
heart
upon
him
?
and
that
thou
shouldst
visit
him
every
morning
,
and
try
him
every
moment
?
Such
is
his
tender
care
over
you
that
he
withdraws
not
his
eye
from
you
.
See
Job
36.
7.
lest
any
hurt
you
,
he
himself
will
guard
and
keep
you
day
and
night
.
Isa.
27.
3.
Should
he
withdraw
his
eye
or
hand
one
moment
from
you
,
that
moment
would
be
your
ruine
.
Ten
thousand
evils
watch
but
for
such
an
opportunity
,
to
rush
in
upon
you
,
and
destroy
you
and
all
your
com●orts
.
You
,
are
too
dear
to
him
to
be
trusted
in
any
hand
but
his
own
.
Deut.
33.
3.
All
his
Saints
are
in
thy
hand
.
Third
Corollary
.
LEarn
hence
how
you
are
obliged
to
perform
all
dutJes
and
services
for
God
,
who
performeth
all
things
for
you
.
It
was
the
wish
of
a
good
man
,
optarem
id
me
esse
Deo
,
quod
est
mihi
manus
mea
,
Oh
that
I
could
be
to
God
what
my
hand
is
to
me
,
Viz.
a
serviceable
useful
instrument
.
Shall
God
do
all
things
for
you
,
and
will
you
do
nothing
for
God
?
Is
Providence
every
moment
at
work
for
you
,
and
will
you
be
idle
?
To
what
purpose
then
is
all
that
God
hath
done
for
you
?
Is
it
not
the
aim
and
design
of
all
,
to
make
you
a
fruitful
people
?
If
God
plant
,
and
fence
,
and
water
you
by
Providence
,
sure
he
looks
you
should
bring
forth
fruit
.
Isa.
5.
1
,
2
,
3
,
4.
O
that
in
return
for
all
the
benefits
of
Providence
,
you
would
say
to
God
,
as
grateful
Elisha
said
to
the
Shunamite
,
behold
thou
hast
been
careful
for
us
with
all
this
care
,
what
is
to
be
done
for
thee
?
2
Kings
4.
13.
and
with
David
,
Psal.
116.
12.
what
shall
I
render
unto
the
Lord
for
all
his
benefits
towards
me
!
He
is
ever
doing
you
good
;
be
you
always
abounding
in
his
work
.
His
Providence
stands
by
you
in
your
greatest
distresses
and
dangers
;
don't
you
flinch
from
God
when
his
service
and
your
duty
is
compassed
about
with
difficulties
.
O
be
active
for
that
God
who
is
acting
every
moment
for
you
.
Fourth
Corollary
.
DOth
God
perform
all
things
for
his
people
?
Do
not
distrust
him
then
as
often
as
new
or
great
difficultJes
arise
.
Why
should
you
think
he
that
hath
done
so
many
things
for
you
,
will
now
do
no
more
?
Surely
,
the
Lords
hand
is
not
shortned
that
it
cannot
save
,
nor
his
ear
heavy
that
it
cannot
hear
;
if
any
thing
put
a
stop
to
his
mercy
,
't
is
your
iniquities
,
your
distrust
and
infidelity
.
Isa.
59.
1.
How
long
will
it
be
ere
you
belJeve
him
?
If
a
thousand
and
ten
thousand
of
tryals
and
experiences
of
his
tender
care
,
faithfulness
and
love
will
cure
this
distemper
in
you
,
you
have
them
at
hand
to
do
it
.
If
the
frequent
confutations
of
this
your
distrust
by
the
unexpected
breakings
out
of
mercy
for
you
under
like
discouragements
will
cure
it
,
look
back
and
you
may
see
them
.
Certainly
you
have
been
often
forced
by
Providence
with
shame
and
repentance
to
retract
your
rash
censures
of
his
care
;
and
yet
will
you
fall
into
the
same
distemper
again
?
Oh
that
you
would
once
learn
this
great
truth
,
That
no
man
ever
wanted
that
mercy
,
which
he
wanted
not
an
heart
to
trust
and
wait
quietly
upon
God
for
.
You
never
yet
sought
God
in
vain
,
except
when
you
sought
him
vainly
.
The
Fi●th
Corollary
.
DOth
God
perform
all
things
for
you
?
The
way
of
man
is
not
in
himself
;
if
it
were
,
prayer
might
then
be
reckon'd
lost
labour
.
O
let
him
that
performs
all
,
be
owned
and
acknowledged
in
all
.
The
sixth
Corollary
.
LAstly
,
If
God
perform
all
things
for
us
,
then
it
is
our
great
Interest
and
concernment
in
all
things
to
study
to
please
him
,
upon
whom
we
depend
for
all
things
.
It
is
a
grave
and
weighty
observation
of
Chrysostome
.
Tranquillus
Deus
,
tranquillat
omnJa
.
Every
thing
is
well
,
and
shall
be
well
,
when
all
is
well
betwixt
us
and
God
.
The
great
consolation
of
the
Saints
lyes
in
this
,
that
all
that
concerns
them
is
in
the
hands
of
their
father
.
Pene
desperassem
nisi
Christus
esset
caput
EcclesJae
.
I
had
utterly
despair'd
(
said
Luther
)
had
not
Christ
been
head
of
the
Church
.
When
he
that
performs
all
things
is
our
God
,
even
our
God
that
delights
in
our
prosperity
,
that
rejoyces
over
us
to
do
us
good
,
what
ample
security
is
here
in
the
greatest
confusions
and
dangers
?
When
one
told
Bouromeus
that
there
were
some
that
laid
wait
for
his
life
,
his
answer
was
,
An
Deus
est
in
mundo
pro
nihilo
?
What
,
is
God
in
the
World
for
nothing
?
And
as
notable
was
the
reply
of
SilentJarJus
in
a
like
case
,
si
Deus
mei
curam
non
habet
,
quid
vivo
?
If
God
take
no
care
of
me
,
how
do
I
live
,
how
have
I
subsisted
hitherto
?
Though
it
seems
a
Romance
to
many
(
saith
a
late
grave
Author
)
yet
we
must
either
quit
the
Scripture
,
●●ar
.
pag.
●3
.
or
give
credit
to
this
,
that
the
most
infallible
Rules
for
one
to
raise
his
fortune
and
ensure
a
destiny
that
can
controul
the
stars
,
are
given
forth
there
(
viz.
in
the
Scriptures
)
where
that
evidently
is
found
,
Sapiens
dominabitur
Astris
,
&
quomodo
unusquisque
faber
potest
esse
fortunae
suae
.
A
good
man
may
even
be
his
own
Carver
.
O
that
we
would
but
steer
our
course
according
to
those
rare
politicks
of
the
Bible
,
those
divine
Maxims
of
Wisdom
.
Fear
nothing
but
sin
.
Study
nothing
so
much
as
how
to
please
God
.
Warp
not
from
your
integrity
under
any
temptation
.
Trust
God
in
the
way
of
your
duty
.
These
are
sure
Rules
to
secure
your selves
and
your
Interest
in
all
the
Vicissitudes
of
this
life
.
MY
last
work
will
be
to
state
three
or
four
practical
cases
about
this
subject
,
and
so
I
shall
shut
up
this
discourse
of
Providence
.
First
Case
.
HOw
may
a
Christian
discover
the
will
of
God
and
his
own
duty
under
dark
and
doubtful
Providences
?
In
order
to
the
clearing
of
this
Case
,
we
are
to
consider
,
what
is
meant
by
the
will
of
God
;
what
by
those
doubtful
Providences
,
that
make
the
discovery
of
his
will
difficult
,
and
what
rules
are
to
be
observed
for
the
clearing
up
of
Gods
will
to
our selves
under
such
difficult
and
puzzling
Providences
.
As
to
the
Will
of
God
,
it
falls
under
a
twofold
consideration
,
of
his
secret
and
revealed
Will
;
this
distinction
is
found
in
that
Scripture
,
Deut.
29.
29.
The
secret
things
belong
unto
the
Lord
our
God
,
but
those
things
which
are
revealed
belong
unto
us
,
&c.
The
first
is
the
rule
of
his
own
actions
;
the
later
of
ours
:
and
this
only
is
concerned
in
the
Quere
.
This
Revealed
Will
of
God
is
either
manifested
to
us
in
his
Word
,
or
in
his
Works
.
The
former
is
his
commanding
Will
,
the
later
his
effecting
or
permitting
Will
;
the
one
versant
about
good
,
the
other
about
evil
.
In
these
wayes
God
manifests
his
Will
to
men
,
but
yet
with
great
variety
and
difference
,
both
as
to
the
things
revealed
,
the
persons
to
whom
he
reveals
them
,
and
the
degrees
of
clearness
in
which
they
are
revealed
.
(
1.
)
As
to
the
things
revealed
,
there
is
great
differenc●
:
for
the
great
and
necessary
duties
of
Religion
are
revealed
to
us
in
the
Word
,
with
greatest
perspicuity
and
evidence
.
About
these
there
can
be
no
hesitation
;
but
things
of
a
lower
nature
and
lesser
concern
are
left
more
obscure
.
(
2.
)
As
to
the
persons
to
whom
God
reveals
his
Will
,
there
is
great
difference
;
some
are
strong
men
,
others
babes
,
1
Cor.
3.
1.
Some
have
senses
exercised
,
others
are
of
weak
and
dull
understanding
;
and
we
know
every
thing
is
received
according
to
the
ability
and
measure
of
the
person
receiving
it
.
Hence
it
is
,
that
one
mans
way
is
very
plain
before
him
,
he
knows
what
he
ought
to
do
:
the
other
is
ever
and
anon
at
a
loss
,
bivious
and
uncertain
what
to
do
.
(
3.
)
The
manner
of
Gods
revealing
his
Will
to
men
is
also
very
different
.
Some
have
had
special
,
personal
,
and
peculiar
discoveries
of
it
made
to
them
.
So
had
Samuel
about
the
choice
of
the
person
whom
he
should
anoint
King
,
1
Sam.
9.
15.
And
so
had
David
,
1
Sam.
23.
2
,
4
,
9
,
10
,
11
,
12.
where
you
find
upon
his
enquiry
of
God
(
likely
by
the
Vrim
and
Thummim
)
God
told
him
what
was
his
duty
as
to
that
expedition
,
and
what
would
be
the
event
of
it
.
But
now
,
all
are
tyed
up
to
the
ordinary
standing
rule
of
the
written
Word
,
and
must
not
expect
any
such
extraordinary
revelations
from
God
.
The
way
we
now
have
to
know
the
Will
of
God
concerning
us
in
difficult
cases
,
is
to
search
and
study
the
Scriptures
,
and
where
we
find
no
particular
rule
to
guide
us
in
this
or
that
particular
case
,
there
we
are
to
apply
general
rules
,
and
govern
our selves
according
to
the
Analogy
and
proportion
they
bear
towards
each
other
.
But
now
it
often
falls
out
,
that
in
such
doubtful
cases
we
are
entangled
in
our
own
thoughts
,
and
put
to
a
loss
what
course
to
take
.
We
pray
with
David
.
that
God
would
make
his
way
plain
before
us
,
Psal.
5.
8.
Afraid
we
are
of
displeasing
God
,
and
yet
doubtful
we
may
do
so
;
whether
we
resolve
this
way
,
or
that
.
And
this
comes
to
pass
not
only
through
the
difficulty
of
the
case
,
but
from
our
own
ignorance
and
inadvertency
;
and
very
frequently
from
those
Providences
that
lye
before
us
,
wherein
God
seems
to
hint
his
mind
to
us
,
this
way
or
that
,
and
whether
we
may
safely
guide
our selves
by
those
intimations
of
Providence
,
is
doubtful
to
us
.
That
God
doth
give
men
secret
hints
and
intimations
of
his
Will
by
his
Providence
,
cannot
be
doubted
;
but
yet
Providences
in
themselves
,
are
no
stable
rule
of
duty
,
nor
sufficient
discovery
of
the
Will
of
God
.
We
may
say
of
them
,
as
it
is
,
Job
23.
8
,
9.
Behold
,
I
go
forward
,
but
he
is
not
there
:
and
backward
,
but
I
cannot
perceive
him
:
an
the
left
hand
where
he
doth
work
,
but
I
cannot
behold
him
:
he
hideth
himself
on
the
right
hand
,
that
I
cannot
see
him
.
If
Providence
in
it self
be
allowed
to
be
a
su●●icient
discovery
of
Gods
Will
to
us
,
then
we
shall
be
forced
often
times
to
justifie
and
condemn
the
same
cause
or
person
,
forasmuch
as
there
is
one
event
happens
to
all
,
and
as
it
falls
out
to
the
good
,
so
to
the
wicked
,
Eccles.
9.
2.
Beside
,
if
Providence
alone
were
the
Rule
to
judge
any
action
or
design
by
;
then
a
wicked
undertakement
would
cease
to
be
so
,
if
it
should
succeed
well
;
but
sin
is
sin
still
,
and
duty
is
duty
still
,
what
ever
the
events
and
issues
of
either
be
.
The
safest
way
therefore
to
make
use
of
Providence
in
such
cases
is
,
to
consider
them
as
they
follow
the
commands
or
promises
of
the
Word
,
and
not
singly
and
separately
in
themselves
.
If
you
search
the
Scriptures
with
an
indifferent
and
unbyassed
spirit
,
in
a
doubtful
case
,
pray
for
counsel
and
direction
from
the
Lord
,
attend
to
the
dictates
of
Conscience
.
And
when
you
have
done
all
,
shall
find
the
Providences
of
God
falling
out
agreeably
to
the
dictates
of
your
own
conscience
,
and
the
best
light
you
can
find
in
the
Word
,
you
may
in
such
cases
make
use
of
it
as
an
encouragement
to
you
,
in
the
way
of
your
duty
:
But
the
most
signal
demonstrations
of
Providence
are
not
to
be
accepted
against
a
Scripture
rule
;
no
smiles
or
successes
of
Providences
may
in
this
case
encourage
us
to
proceed
;
and
on
the
other
side
,
no
frowns
or
discouragements
of
Providence
should
dishearten
us
in
the
way
of
our
duty
,
how
many
soever
we
should
encounter
therein
.
Holy
Job
could
not
find
the
meaning
of
God
in
his
Works
,
yet
would
he
not
go
back
from
the
commandments
of
his
lips
,
Job
23.
9.
The
like
resolution
you
●ind
in
David
,
to
proceed
in
his
duty
,
and
cleave
to
the
Word
,
how
many
stumbling
blocks
soever
Providence
should
permit
to
be
laid
in
his
way
.
I
am
become
(
saith
he
)
like
a
bottle
in
the
smoke
(
not
only
blackt
,
but
withered
up
by
troubles
)
yet
do
I
not
forget
thy
Statutes
,
Psal.
119.
83.
and
again
Ver.
87.
They
had
almost
consumed
me
upon
earth
:
but
I
forsook
not
thy
precepts
.
Paul
by
the
direction
of
the
Spirit
was
engaged
to
go
to
Jerusalem
,
Acts
20.
22.
After
a
clear
revelation
of
the
mind
of
God
to
him
in
that
matter
,
how
many
difficult
and
discouraging
Providences
be●ell
him
in
his
way
?
The
Disciples
at
Tyre
said
to
him
by
the
Spirit
(
though
in
that
they
●ollowed
their
own
spirits
)
that
he
should
not
go
to
Jerusalem
,
Acts
21.
4.
Then
at
Cesarea
he
met
Agabus
a
Prophet
,
who
told
him
what
should
be●all
him
when
he
came
thither
,
Chap.
21.
10
,
11.
all
this
will
not
disswade
him
.
And
after
all
this
,
how
passionately
do
the
Brethren
beseech
him
to
decline
that
journey
?
Ver.
12
,
13.
Yet
knowing
his
rule
,
and
resolving
to
be
faithful
to
it
,
he
puts
by
all
and
proceeds
in
his
journey
.
Well
then
,
Providence
in
concurrence
with
the
Word
may
give
some
encouragement
to
us
in
our
way
;
but
no
testimony
of
Providence
is
to
be
accepted
against
the
Word
.
If
Scripture
and
Conscience
tell
you
,
such
a
way
is
sinful
,
you
may
not
venture
upon
it
,
how
many
opportunities
and
encouragements
soever
Providence
may
suffer
to
offer
themselves
to
you
,
for
they
are
only
permitted
for
your
Tryal
,
not
your
encouragement
:
Take
this
therefore
for
a
sure
Rule
,
That
no
Providence
can
legitimate
,
or
justifie
any
moral
evil
.
Nor
will
it
be
a
plea
before
God
for
any
man
to
say
,
The
Providence
of
God
gave
me
encouragement
to
do
it
,
though
the
Word
gave
me
none
.
If
there●ore
in
doubtful
cases
,
you
would
discover
Gods
will
,
govern
your selves
in
your
search
after
it
by
these
Rules
.
Get
the
true
fear
of
God
upon
your
hearts
,
be
really
afraid
of
offending
him
,
God
will
not
hide
his
mind
from
such
a
●oul
,
Psal.
25.
14.
The
secret
of
the
Lord
is
with
them
that
fear
him
,
and
he
will
shew
them
his
Covenant
.
Study
the
Word
more
,
and
the
concerns
and
interests
of
the
World
less
.
The
Word
is
a
light
to
your
feet
,
Psal.
119.
105.
(
i.
e.
)
it
hath
a
discovering
and
directive
usefulness
as
to
all
duties
to
be
done
,
and
dangers
to
be
avoided
:
it
is
the
great
Oracle
at
which
you
are
to
enquire
:
treasure
up
its
rules
in
your
hearts
,
and
you
will
walk
safely
,
Psal.
119.
11.
thy
word
have
I
hid
in
my
heart
that
I
might
not
sin
against
thee
.
Reduce
what
you
know
into
practice
,
and
you
shall
know
what
is
your
duty
to
practise
,
Joh.
7.
17.
If
any
man
do
his
will
he
shall
know
of
the
doctrine
.
Psal.
111.
10.
A
good
understanding
have
all
they
that
do
thereafter
.
Pray
for
illumination
and
direction
in
the
way
that
you
should
go
;
beg
the
Lord
to
guide
you
in
straits
,
and
that
he
would
not
suffer
you
to
fall
into
sin
.
This
was
the
holy
practice
of
Ezra
,
chap.
8.
21.
Then
I
proclaimed
a
fast
there
at
the
river
Ahava
,
that
we
might
afflict
our selves
before
our
God
,
to
seek
of
him
a
right
way
for
us
,
and
for
our
little
ones
,
and
for
all
our
substance
.
And
this
being
done
,
●ollow
Providence
so
far
as
it
agrees
with
the
word
,
he
knew
the
Lord
favoured
him
,
because
his
Enemy
did
not
triumph
over
him
,
ver.
11.
this
Providence
he
looked
upon
as
a
token
for
good
,
as
elsewhere
he
calls
it
,
Psal.
86.
17.
And
(
2.
)
Providences
give
us
loud
calls
to
those
duties
which
the
Command
lays
upon
us
,
and
tell
us
when
we
are
actually
and
presently
under
the
obligation
of
the
Commands
as
to
the
performance
of
them
.
Thus
when
sad
Providences
befall
the
Church
or
our selves
,
they
call
us
to
humiliation
;
and
let
us
know
that
then
the
command
upon
us
to
humble
our selves
at
the
feet
of
God
is
in
force
upon
us
,
Micah
6.
9.
The
Lords
voice
cryeth
to
the
City
,
and
the
man
of
wisdom
shall
see
thy
name
,
hear
the
rod
,
and
who
hath
appointed
it
.
The
Rod
hath
a
voice
;
and
what
doth
it
speak
?
Why
now
is
the
time
to
humble
your selves
under
the
mighty
hand
of
God
.
This
is
the
day
of
trouble
in
which
God
hath
bid
you
to
call
upon
him
.
And
●
contra
,
when
comfortable
Providences
refresh
us
,
it
now
informs
us
,
this
is
the
time
to
rejoyce
in
God
according
to
the
rule
,
Eccles.
7.
14.
in
the
day
of
prosperi●y
be
joyful
.
These
precepts
bind
always
,
to
always
.
It
's
our
duty
therefore
and
our
wisdom
to
distinguish
seasons
,
and
know
the
proper
duties
of
every
season
:
and
Providence
is
an
Index
that
points
them
out
to
us
.
Thus
of
the
first
Case
.
The
Second
Case
.
HOw
may
a
Christian
be
supported
in
waiting
upon
God
whil'st
Providence
delays
the
performance
of
the
mercies
to
him
for
which
he
hath
long
pray'd
and
waited
?
Two
things
are
supposed
in
this
Case
.
-
(
1.
)
That
Providence
may
linger
and
delay
the
performance
of
those
mercies
to
us
that
we
have
long
waited
and
prayed
for
.
-
(
2.
)
That
during
that
delay
and
suspension
,
our
hearts
and
hopes
may
be
very
low
,
and
ready
to
fail
.
Providence
may
long
delay
the
performance
of
those
mercies
we
have
prayed
and
waited
upon
God
for
.
For
the
right
understanding
of
this
,
know
that
there
is
a
two-fold
term
or
season
fixed
for
the
performance
of
mercy
to
us
.
One
by
the
Lord
our
God
,
in
whose
hand
times
and
seasons
are
,
Acts
1.
7.
Another
by
our selves
,
who
raise
up
our
own
expectations
of
mercies
sometimes
meerly
through
the
eagerness
of
our
desires
after
them
,
and
sometimes
upon
uncertain
conjectural
grounds
and
appearances
of
encouragement
that
lye
before
us
.
Now
nothing
can
be
more
precise
,
certain
and
punctual
,
than
is
the
performance
of
mercy
at
the
time
and
season
which
God
hath
appointed
,
how
long
soever
it
be
,
or
how
many
obstacles
soever
lye
in
the
way
of
it
.
There
was
a
time
prefixed
by
God
himself
for
the
performance
of
that
Promise
of
Israel's
deliverance
out
of
Egypt
;
and
it
's
said
,
Exod.
12.
41.
At
the
end
of
the
four
hundred
and
thirty
years
,
even
the
self
same
day
it
came
to
pass
,
that
all
the
host
of
the
Lord
went
out
of
the
Land
of
Egypt
.
Compare
this
with
Acts
7.
17.
and
there
you
have
the
ground
and
reason
why
their
deliverance
was
not
,
nor
could
be
delayed
one
day
longer
,
because
the
time
of
the
Promise
was
now
come
.
Promises
like
a
pregnant
woman
must
accomplish
their
appointed
months
,
and
when
they
have
so
done
,
Providence
will
Midwife
the
mercies
they
go
big
withal
into
the
world
,
and
not
one
of
them
shall
miscarry
.
But
for
the
seasons
which
are
of
our
own
●ixing
and
appointment
,
as
God
is
not
tyed
to
them
,
so
his
Providences
are
not
governed
by
them
:
and
hence
are
our
disappointments
.
We
looked
for
peace
,
but
no
good
came
;
for
a
time
of
health
,
and
behold
trouble
,
Jer.
8.
15.
And
hereupon
is
it
that
we
fret
at
the
delays
of
Providence
,
and
suspect
the
faithfulness
of
God
in
their
performance
.
But
his
thoughts
are
not
our
thoughts
,
Isa.
55.
8.
The
Lord
is
not
slack
concerning
his
promise
as
men
count
slackness
,
2
Pet.
3.
9.
It
is
slackness
if
you
reckon
by
our
own
rule
and
measure
,
but
it
is
not
so
,
if
you
reckon
and
count
it
by
God's
.
The
Lord
doth
not
compute
and
reckon
his
seasons
of
working
by
our
Arithmetick
,
You
have
both
these
Rules
compared
,
and
the
ground
of
our
mistake
detected
in
that
Scripture
,
Hab.
2.
3.
The
VisJon
is
yet
for
an
appointed
time
,
but
at
the
end
it
shall
speak
,
and
not
lye
:
though
it
tarry
,
wait
for
it
,
because
it
will
surely
come
,
it
will
not
tarry
.
God
appoints
the
time
:
when
that
appointed
time
is
come
,
the
expected
mercies
will
not
fail
:
But
in
the
mean
time
,
though
it
tarry
(
saith
the
Prophet
)
wait
for
it
,
for
it
will
not
tarry
.
Tarry
,
and
not
tarry
,
how
shall
this
be
reconciled
?
The
meaning
is
,
it
may
tarry
much
beyond
your
expectatJon
,
but
not
a
moment
beyond
God's
appointment
.
During
this
delay
of
Providence
,
the
hearts
and
hopes
of
the
people
of
God
may
be
very
low
,
and
much
discouraged
.
This
is
too
plain
from
what
the
Scriptures
have
recorded
of
others
,
and
every
one
of
us
may
find
in
our
own
experiences
.
We
have
an
instance
of
this
in
Isa.
40.
13
,
14.
in
the
13.
verse
you
have
God's
faithful
Promise
,
that
he
will
comfort
his
people
,
and
have
mercy
upon
his
afflicted
.
Enough
one
would
think
to
raise
and
comfort
their
hearts
.
But
the
mercy
promised
was
long
in
coming
,
they
waited
from
year
to
year
,
and
still
the
burthen
pressed
them
,
and
was
not
removed
.
And
therefore
ver.
14.
ZJon
said
,
the
Lord
hath
forsaken
me
and
my
Lord
hath
forgotten
me
,
q.
d.
It
's
in
vain
to
look
for
such
a
mercy
,
God
hath
no
regard
to
us
,
we
are
out
of
his
heart
and
mind
,
he
neither
cares
for
us
nor
minds
what
becomes
of
us
.
So
it
was
with
David
,
after
God
had
made
him
such
a
Promise
,
and
in
the
time
thereof
so
faithfully
performed
it
,
that
never
was
mercy
better
secured
to
any
man
;
for
they
are
call'd
,
the
sure
mercJes
of
David
,
Isa.
55.
3.
yet
Providence
delayed
the
accomplishment
of
them
so
long
,
and
suffered
such
difficulties
to
intervene
,
that
he
even
despaires
to
see
the
accomplishment
of
them
,
but
even
concludes
God
had
forgotten
him
too
,
Psal.
13.
1.
How
long
wilt
thou
forget
me
,
O
Lord
,
for
ever
?
And
what
he
speaks
here
by
way
of
questJon
,
he
elsewhere
turns
into
a
positive
conclusJon
,
Psal.
116.
11.
All
men
are
Lyars
,
I
shall
one
day
perish
by
the
hand
of
Saul
.
And
the
causes
of
these
despondencies
,
and
sinkings
of
heart
are
partly
from
our selves
,
and
partly
form
Satan
.
If
we
duly
examine
our
own
hearts
about
it
,
we
shall
find
that
these
sinkings
of
heart
are
The
immediate
effects
of
unbelief
.
We
do
not
depend
and
rely
upon
the
word
with
that
full
trust
and
confidence
that
is
due
to
the
infallible
word
of
a
faithful
and
unchangeable
God
.
You
may
see
the
ground
of
this
faintness
in
that
Scripture
,
Psal.
27.
13.
I
had
fainted
unless
I
had
belJeved
.
Faith
is
the
only
Cordial
that
relieves
the
heart
against
these
faintings
and
despondencies
.
Where
this
is
wanting
,
or
is
weak
,
no
wonder
our
hearts
sink
at
this
rate
,
when
discouragements
are
before
us
.
Our
judging
and
measuring
things
by
the
rules
of
sense
,
this
is
a
great
cause
of
our
discouragements
.
We
conclude
,
According
to
the
Appearances
of
things
will
be
their
Issues
.
If
Abraham
had
done
so
,
in
that
great
tryal
of
his
faith
,
he
had
certainly
lost
his
footing
;
but
against
hope
,
(
i.
e.
)
against
natural
probability
,
he
belJeved
in
hope
,
giving
Glory
to
God
,
Rom.
4.
18.
If
Paul
had
done
so
,
he
had
fainted
under
his
tryals
,
2.
Cor.
4.
16
,
8
,
we
faint
not
(
saith
he
)
whil'st
we
look
not
at
the
things
that
are
seen
,
q.
d.
That
which
keeps
up
our
spirits
,
is
our
looking
off
from
things
present
and
visible
,
and
measuring
all
by
another
rule
,
viz.
the
power
and
fidelity
of
God
●irmly
engaged
in
the
Promises
.
In
all
these
things
Satan
manages
a
design
upon
us
.
Hence
he
takes
occasions
to
suggest
hard
thoughts
of
God
,
and
to
beat
off
our
Souls
from
all
confidence
in
him
,
and
expectations
form
him
.
He
is
the
great
make-bate
betwixt
God
and
the
Saints
.
He
reports
the
difficulties
and
fears
that
are
in
our
way
with
advantage
,
and
labours
to
weaken
our
hands
,
and
discourage
our
hearts
in
waiting
upon
God
.
And
these
suggestions
gain
the
more
credit
with
us
,
because
they
are
confirm'd
and
attested
by
sense
and
feeling
.
But
here
is
a
desperate
design
carrying
on
under
very
plausible
pretences
against
our
souls
.
It
concerns
us
to
be
watchful
now
,
and
maintain
our
faith
and
hope
in
God
.
Now
blessed
is
he
that
can
resign
all
to
God
,
and
quietly
wait
for
his
salvation
.
To
assist
the
soul
in
this
difficulty
,
I
shall
offer
some
farther
help
beside
what
hath
been
formerly
given
under
the
first
CautJon
,
pag.
158.
in
the
following
Considerations
.
First
Consideration
.
Though
Providence
do
not
yet
perform
the
mercies
you
wait
for
,
yet
you
have
no
ground
to
entertain
hard
thoughts
of
God
;
for
it
's
possible
God
never
gave
you
any
ground
for
your
expectation
of
these
things
from
him
.
It
may
be
you
have
no
Promise
to
bottome
your
hope
upon
;
and
if
so
,
why
shall
God
be
suspected
and
dishonoured
by
you
in
a
case
wherein
his
truth
and
faithfulness
was
never
engaged
to
you
?
If
we
are
crossed
in
our
outward
concernments
,
and
see
our
expectations
of
prosperity
dashed
;
if
we
see
such
or
such
an
outward
comfort
removed
,
from
which
we
promised
our selves
much
;
why
must
God
be
accused
for
this
?
these
thing
you
promised
yourselves
:
but
where
did
God
promise
you
prosperity
,
and
the
continuance
of
those
com●ortable
things
to
you
?
produce
his
Promise
,
and
shew
wherein
he
hath
broken
it
.
It
is
not
enough
for
you
to
say
,
There
are
general
Promises
in
the
Scripture
,
that
God
will
withhold
no
good
thing
,
and
these
are
good
things
which
Providence
withholds
form
you
;
for
that
Promise
,
Psal.
84.
11.
hath
its
limitations
,
it
is
expresly
limited
to
such
as
walk
uprightly
;
and
it
concerns
you
to
examine
whether
you
have
done
so
,
before
you
quarrel
with
Providence
for
non-performance
of
it
.
Ah
friend
,
search
thine
own
heart
,
reflect
upon
thine
own
ways
;
seest
thou
not
so
many
●laws
in
thine
integrity
,
so
many
turnings
aside
from
God
,
both
in
heart
and
life
,
that
may
justice
God
,
not
only
in
withholding
what
thou
lookest
for
,
but
in
removing
all
that
thou
enjoyest
?
And
besides
this
limitation
as
to
the
Object
,
it
's
limited
(
as
all
other
promises
relating
to
externals
are
)
in
the
matter
or
things
premised
by
the
Wisdome
and
Will
of
God
,
which
is
the
only
Rule
by
which
they
are
measured
out
to
men
in
this
World
,
(
i.e.
)
such
mercies
in
such
proportions
as
he
sees
needful
and
most
conducible
to
your
good
;
and
these
given
out
in
such
times
and
seasons
as
are
of
his
own-appointment
,
not
yours
.
God
never
came
under
an
absolute
unlimited
●ye
for
outward
comforts
to
any
of
us
;
and
if
we
be
disappointed
,
we
can
blame
none
but
our selves
.
Who
bid
us
expect
rest
,
ease
,
delight
,
and
things
of
this
kind
in
this
world
?
He
hath
never
told
us
,
we
shall
be
rich
,
healthy
and
at
ease
in
our
habitations
;
but
on
the
contrary
,
he
hath
often
told
us
,
we
must
expect
troubles
in
the
world
,
John
16.
33.
and
that
through
many
tribulatJons
we
must
enter
into
his
Kingdom
,
Acts
14.
22.
All
that
he
stands
bound
to
us
by
Promise
for
,
is
to
be
with
us
in
trouble
,
Psal.
91.
15.
to
supply
our
real
and
absolute
needs
,
Isa.
41.
17.
When
the
poor
and
needy
seek
water
,
and
there
is
none
,
and
their
tongue
faileth
for
thirst
,
I
the
Lord
will
hear
them
,
I
the
God
of
Israel
will
not
forsake
them
;
and
to
sanctifie
all
thes●
Providences
to
our
good
at
last
,
Rom.
8.
28.
All
things
shall
work
together
for
good
to
them
that
love
God
.
And
as
to
all
these
things
not
one
tittle
ever
did
,
or
shall
fail
.
Second
Consideration
.
But
it
you
say
you
have
long
waited
upon
God
for
spiritual
mercies
to
your
souls
according
to
the
Promise
,
and
still
those
mercies
are
deferred
,
and
your
eyes
fail
whilst
you
look
for
them
;
I
would
desire
you
seriously
to
consider
of
what
kind
those
spiritual
mercies
are
,
for
which
you
have
so
long
waited
upon
God
.
Spiritual
mercies
are
of
two
sorts
;
such
as
belong
to
the
Essence
,
the
very
being
of
the
new
creature
,
without
which
it
must
fail
:
or
to
it
s
well
being
,
and
the
comfort
of
the
inner
man
;
without
which
you
cannot
live
so
cheerfully
as
you
would
.
The
mercies
of
the
former
kind
are
Absolutely
necessary
,
and
therefore
put
into
Absolute
Promises
,
as
you
see
,
Jer.
32.
40.
And
I
will
make
an
everlasting
Covenant
with
them
,
that
I
will
not
turn
away
from
them
to
do
them
good
,
but
I
will
put
my
fear
in
their
hearts
,
that
they
shall
not
depart
from
me
.
But
for
the
rest
they
are
dispensed
to
us
in
such
measures
,
and
at
such
seasons
as
the
Lord
sees
fit
,
and
many
of
his
own
people
live
for
a
long
time
without
them
.
The
donation
and
continuation
of
the
Spirit
,
to
quicken
,
sanctifie
and
unite
us
with
Christ
is
necessary
,
but
his
joyes
and
comforts
are
not
so
.
A
Child
of
light
may
walk
in
darkness
,
Isa.
50.
10.
He
lives
by
faith
,
and
not
by
feeling
.
Third
Consideration
.
You
complain
,
Providence
delayes
to
perform
to
you
the
mercies
you
have
prayed
and
waited
for
;
but
have
you
right
ends
in
your
desires
after
these
mercies
?
It
may
be
that
's
the
cause
,
you
ask
and
receive
not
,
James
4.
3.
The
want
of
a
good
aim
,
is
the
reason
why
we
want
good
success
in
our
prayers
.
It
may
be
we
pray
for
prosperity
,
and
our
end
is
to
please
the
flesh
;
we
look
no
higher
than
the
pleasure
and
accommodation
of
the
flesh
;
we
beg
and
wait
for
deliverance
from
such
a
trouble
and
affliction
,
not
that
we
might
be
the
more
expedite
and
prepared
for
obedience
,
but
freed
of
what
is
grievous
to
us
,
and
destroyes
our
pleasure
in
the
world
.
Certainly
if
it
be
so
,
you
have
more
need
to
judge
and
condemn
your selves
,
than
to
censure
and
suspect
the
care
of
God
.
Fourth
Consideration
.
You
wait
for
good
,
and
it
comes
not
;
but
is
your
will
brought
to
a
due
submission
to
the
Will
of
God
about
it
?
Certainly
God
will
have
you
come
to
this
before
you
enjoy
your
desires
.
Enjoyment
of
your
desires
is
the
thing
that
will
please
you
,
but
resignation
of
your
wills
,
is
that
which
is
pleasing
to
God
:
if
your
hearts
cannot
come
to
this
,
mercies
cannot
come
to
you
.
David
was
made
to
wait
long
for
the
mercy
promised
him
,
yea
,
and
to
be
content
without
it
before
he
enjoyed
it
,
Psal.
131.
2
he
was
brought
to
be
as
a
weaned
Child
,
and
so
must
you
.
Fifth
Consideration
.
Your
betters
have
waited
long
upon
God
for
mercy
,
and
why
should
not
you
?
David
waited
till
his
eyes
failed
,
Psal.
69.
3
The
Church
waited
for
him
in
the
way
of
his
judgements
,
Isa.
26.
8.
Are
you
better
than
all
the
Saints
that
are
gone
before
you
?
Is
God
more
obliged
to
you
than
to
all
his
people
?
They
have
quietly
waited
,
and
why
should
not
you
?
Sixth
Consideration
.
Will
you
lose
any
thing
by
patient
waiting
upon
God
for
mercies
?
Certainly
,
not
at
all
:
Yea
,
it
will
turn
to
a
double
advantage
to
you
to
continue
in
a
quiet
submissive
waiting
posture
upon
God
.
For
,
(
1.
)
Though
you
do
not
yet
enjoy
the
good
you
wait
for
,
yet
all
this
while
you
are
exercising
your
Grace
;
and
it
's
more
excellent
to
act
Grace
,
than
to
enjoy
comfort
.
All
this
while
the
Lord
is
training
you
up
in
the
exercise
of
faith
and
patience
,
and
bending
your
wills
in
submission
to
himself
;
and
what
do
you
lose
by
that
?
Yea
,
and
(
2.
)
When
ever
the
desired
mercy
comes
,
it
will
be
so
much
the
sweeter
to
you
:
for
,
look
how
much
faith
and
prayer
hath
been
employed
to
produce
it
,
how
many
wrestlings
you
have
had
with
God
for
it
,
so
many
more
degrees
of
sweetness
you
will
●ind
in
it
,
when
it
comes
.
O
therefore
,
●aint
not
,
how
long
soever
God
delay
you
.
Seventh
Consideration
.
Are
not
those
mercies
you
expect
from
God
worth
the
waiting
for
?
If
not
,
it
is
your
folly
to
be
troubled
for
the
want
of
them
:
If
they
be
,
why
don't
you
continue
waiting
?
Is
it
not
all
that
God
expects
from
you
for
the
mercies
he
bestows
upon
you
,
that
you
wait
upon
him
for
them
?
You
know
you
have
not
deserved
the
least
of
them
at
his
hands
.
You
expect
them
not
as
a
recompence
,
but
a
free
favour
,
and
if
so
,
then
certainly
the
least
you
can
do
,
is
to
wait
upon
his
pleasure
for
them
.
Eighth
Consideration
.
Consider
how
many
Promises
are
made
in
the
Word
to
waiting
souls
.
One
Scripture
calls
them
blessed
that
wait
for
him
,
Isa.
30.
18.
Another
tells
us
,
none
that
wait
for
him
shall
be
ashamed
,
Psal.
25.
3.
(
i.e.
)
they
shall
not
be
finally
disappointed
,
but
at
last
be
partakers
of
their
hopes
.
A
third
Scripture
tells
us
,
they
that
wait
upon
the
Lord
,
shall
renew
their
strength
,
Isa.
40.
31.
a
Promise
you
had
need
make
much
use
of
in
such
a
fainting
time
,
with
many
more
of
like
nature
;
and
shall
we
faint
at
this
rate
in
the
midst
of
so
many
cordials
as
are
prepared
to
revive
us
in
these
Promises
?
Ninth
Consideration
.
How
long
hath
God
waited
upon
you
when
you
will
comply
with
his
commands
,
come
up
to
your
engagements
and
promises
?
You
have
made
God
wait
long
for
your
reformation
and
obedience
;
and
therefore
have
no
reason
to
think
it
much
,
if
God
make
you
wait
long
for
your
consolation
.
We
have
our
How
longs
,
and
hath
not
God
his
?
We
cry
,
Psal.
6.
3.
But
thou
O
Lord
,
how
long
?
Psal.
13.
1
,
2.
How
long
wilt
thou
forget
me
,
O
Lord
,
for
ever
?
How
long
wilt
thou
hide
thy
face
from
me
?
How
long
shall
I
take
counsel
in
my
soul
,
having
sorrow
in
my
heart
daily
?
How
long
shall
mine
enemy
be
exalted
over
me
?
●ut
surely
we
should
not
think
these
things
long
,
when
we
consider
,
how
long
the
Lord
hath
exercised
his
patience
about
us
.
We
have
made
him
say
,
How
long
,
how
long
?
Our
unbelJef
hath
made
him
cry
,
How
long
will
it
be
ere
they
belJeve
me
?
Numb.
14.
11.
Our
corrupt
hearts
have
made
him
cry
,
How
long
shall
vain
thoughts
lodge
within
thee
?
Jer.
4.
14.
Our
impure
natures
and
wayes
have
made
him
cry
,
How
long
will
it
be
ere
they
attain
to
innocency
?
Hosea
8.
5.
If
God
wait
upon
you
with
so
much
patience
for
your
duties
,
well
may
you
wait
upon
him
for
his
mercies
.
Tenth
Consideration
.
This
impatience
and
infidelity
of
yours
,
exprest
in
your
weariness
to
wait
any
longer
,
as
it
is
a
great
evil
in
it self
,
so
very
probably
it
is
that
evil
which
obstructs
the
way
of
your
expected
mercies
:
you
might
have
your
mercies
soo●er
,
if
your
spirits
were
quieter
and
more
submissive
.
And
thus
of
the
Second
Case
.
The
Third
Case
.
HOw
may
a
Christian
discern
when
a
Providence
is
sanctified
,
and
comes
from
the
love
of
God
to
him
?
There
are
two
sorts
or
kinds
of
Providences
versant
about
men
in
this
world
,
the
issues
and
events
of
which
are
vastly
different
,
yea
,
contrary
to
each
other
.
To
some
all
Providences
are
over-ruled
and
ordered
for
good
,
according
to
that
blessed
Promise
,
Rom.
8.
28.
not
only
things
that
are
good
in
themselves
,
as
Ordinances
,
Graces
,
Duties
and
Mercies
;
but
things
that
are
evil
in
themselves
,
as
Temptations
,
Afflictions
,
and
even
their
Sins
and
Corruptions
shall
turn
in
the
issue
to
their
advantage
and
benefit
.
〈◊〉
though
sin
be
so
intrinsecally
and
formally
evil
in
its
own
nature
,
that
in
it self
it
be
not
capable
of
sanctification
;
yet
out
of
this
worst
of
evils
God
can
work
good
to
his
people
;
and
though
he
never
make
sin
the
Instrument
of
good
;
yet
his
Providence
may
make
it
the
occasJon
of
good
to
his
people
;
so
that
spiritual
benefits
may
by
the
wise
over-ruling
of
Providence
be
occasioned
to
the
people
of
God
by
it
.
And
so
for
afflictions
of
all
kinds
,
the
greatest
and
sorest
of
them
;
they
do
work
in
the
influence
of
Providence
a
great
deal
of
good
to
the
Saints
,
and
that
not
only
as
the
occasions
,
but
as
the
Instruments
and
means
of
it
,
Isa.
27.
9.
by
this
shall
the
iniquity
of
Jacob
be
purged
,
(
i.
e.
)
by
the
instrumentality
of
this
sanctified
affliction
.
To
others
nothing
is
sanctified
either
as
an
Instrument
or
occasion
of
any
spiritual
good
;
but
as
the
worst
things
are
ordered
to
the
benefit
of
the
Saints
,
so
the
best
things
wicked
men
enjoy
do
them
no
good
.
Their
Prayers
are
turned
into
sin
,
Psal.
109.
7.
The
Ordinances
are
the
savour
of
Death
,
2
Cor.
2.
16.
The
Grace
of
God
turned
into
wantonness
,
Jude
v.
4.
Christ
himself
a
rock
of
Offence
,
1
Pe.
2.
8.
Their
Table
a
snare
,
Psal.
69.
22.
Their
Prosperity
their
ruine
,
Prov.
1.
32.
As
persons
are
,
so
things
work
for
good
or
evil
.
Tit.
1.
15.
To
the
pure
all
things
are
pure
,
but
to
them
that
are
defiled
and
unbelJeving
is
nothing
pure
.
Seeing
therefore
the
Events
of
Providence
fall
out
so
opposite
to
each
other
upon
the
Godly
,
and
Ungodly
;
every
thing
farthering
the
eternal
good
of
the
one
,
and
the
ruine
of
the
other
;
it
cannot
but
be
acknowledged
a
most
important
case
in
which
every
Soul
is
deeply
concern'd
,
whether
the
Providences
under
which
he
is
,
be
sanctified
to
him
or
no
?
For
the
clearing
of
which
I
shall
premise
two
necessary
Considerations
,
and
then
subjoyn
the
Rules
which
will
be
useful
for
the
determination
of
the
question
.
And
first
,
Let
it
be
considered
,
that
we
cannot
know
from
the
matter
of
the
things
before
us
,
whether
they
be
sanctified
or
unsanctified
to
us
;
for
so
consider'd
,
all
things
come
alike
to
all
;
and
no
man
knoweth
either
love
or
hatred
by
all
the
things
that
are
before
him
.
Eccles.
9.
1
,
2.
We
cannot
understand
▪
the
mind
and
heart
of
God
,
by
the
things
he
dispenseth
with
his
hand
.
If
prosperous
Providences
befall
us
,
we
cannot
say
,
Herein
is
a
sure
sign
that
God
loves
me
;
for
who
have
more
of
those
Providences
than
the
people
of
his
wrath
?
Psal.
73.
7.
They
have
more
than
their
hearts
can
wish
.
Sure
that
must
be
a
weak
Evidence
for
Heaven
,
which
accompanies
so
great
a
part
of
the
world
to
Hell
.
By
these
things
we
may
testifie
our
love
to
God
;
but
from
ten
thousand
such
enjoyments
we
cannot
get
any
solid
assurance
of
his
love
to
us
.
And
from
adverse
afflictive
Providences
we
cannot
know
his
hatred
.
If
afflictions
,
great
afflictions
,
many
afflictions
,
long
continued
afflictions
should
set
a
brand
,
or
fix
a
Character
of
Gods
hatred
upon
the
persons
on
whom
they
●all
;
where
then
shall
we
find
Gods
people
in
the
world
?
We
must
then
seek
out
the
proud
vain
sensual
wantons
of
the
world
,
who
spend
their
days
in
pleasure
,
and
say
these
are
the
men
whom
God
loves
▪
Outward
things
are
promiscuously
dispensed
,
and
no
man's
spiritual
estate
is
discernable
by
the
view
of
his
temporal
.
When
God
draws
the
Sword
,
it
may
cut
off
the
righteous
as
well
as
the
wicked
,
Ezek.
21.
3.
Though
the
Providences
of
God
materJally
considered
afford
no
evidence
of
Gods
love
to
us
,
yet
the
manner
in
which
they
befall
us
,
and
the
effects
and
fruits
they
produce
in
us
,
do
distinguish
them
very
manifestly
;
and
by
them
we
may
discern
whether
they
be
sanctified
Providences
,
and
fruits
of
the
love
of
God
,
or
no.
But
yet
these
effects
and
fruits
of
Providences
by
which
we
discern
their
nature
,
do
not
always
presently
appear
;
but
time
must
be
allowed
for
the
souls
exercise
under
them
.
As
it
is
Heb.
12.
11.
Now
no
affliction
for
the
present
seemeth
joyous
,
but
grJevous
:
nevertheless
afterwards
it
yJeldeth
the
peaceable
fruits
of
Righteousness
unto
them
which
are
exercised
thereby
.
The
benefit
of
a
Providence
is
discern'd
as
that
of
a
medicine
is
,
for
the
present
it
gripes
,
and
makes
the
stomach
sick
and
loathing
;
but
afterwards
we
find
the
benefit
of
it
in
our
recovery
of
health
and
chearfulness
.
Now
the
Providences
of
God
being
some
of
them
comfortable
,
and
others
sad
and
grievous
to
nature
,
and
the
way
to
discern
the
sanctification
and
blessing
of
them
,
being
by
the
manner
in
which
they
come
and
their
operations
upon
our
spirits
;
I
shall
consider
the
case
as
it
respects
both
sorts
of
Providences
,
and
shew
you
what
effects
of
our
troubles
or
comforts
will
speak
them
to
be
sanctified
and
blessed
to
us
.
And
first
for
sad
and
afflictive
Providences
in
what
kind
or
degree
soever
they
befall
us
,
we
may
warrantably
conclude
,
they
are
blessings
to
us
,
and
come
from
the
love
of
God
,
when
They
come
in
a
proper
season
,
when
we
have
need
of
them
,
either
to
prevent
some
sin
we
are
falling
into
,
or
recover
us
out
of
a
remiss
,
●upine
,
and
careless
frame
of
spirit
into
which
we
are
already
fallen
,
1
Pet.
1.
6.
if
need
be
,
ye
are
in
heaviness
.
Certainly
,
it
is
a
good
sign
that
God
designs
your
good
by
those
troubles
which
are
so
fitted
and
wisely
order'd
to
ni●k
the
opportunity
.
If
you
see
the
Husbandman
lopping
a
tree
in
the
proper
Season
,
it
argues
he
aims
at
the
fruitfulness
and
flourishing
of
it
;
but
to
do
the
same
thing
at
Midsummer
speaks
no
regard
to
it
,
yea
,
his
design
to
destroy
it
.
When
they
are
fitted
both
for
quality
and
degree
to
work
properly
upon
our
most
predominant
corruptions
,
then
they
look
like
sanctified
strokes
.
The
Wisdom
of
God
is
much
seen
in
the
choice
of
his
rods
.
It
is
not
any
kind
of
trouble
that
will
work
upon
and
purge
every
sin
;
but
when
God
chuses
for
us
such
afflictions
as
like
Physick
are
appropriated
to
the
disease
the
soul
labours
under
;
this
speaks
divine
care
and
love
.
Thus
we
may
observe
,
Isa.
17.
8.
in
measure
when
it
shooteth
forth
thou
wilt
debate
with
it
:
he
stayeth
his
rough
wind
in
the
day
of
the
east
wind
.
It
is
an
AllusJon
to
a
PhysicJan
who
exactly
weighs
and
measures
all
the
ingredients
which
he
mingles
in
a
potion
for
his
sick
patient
;
that
it
may
be
proportionate
to
his
strength
and
no
more
:
and
so
much
the
next
words
intimate
,
by
this
therefore
shall
the
iniquity
of
Jacob
be
purged
.
It
is
a
good
sign
our
troubles
are
sancti●ied
to
us
,
when
they
turn
our
hearts
against
sin
,
and
not
against
God
.
There
be
few
great
afflictions
which
befall
men
,
but
they
make
them
quarrelsome
and
discontented
.
Wicked
men
quarrel
with
God
,
and
are
filled
with
discontent
against
him
.
So
the
Scripture
describes
them
,
Rev.
16.
9.
They
were
scorched
with
great
heat
,
and
blasphemed
the
name
of
God
,
which
hath
power
over
these
plagues
.
But
Godly
men
to
whom
afflictions
are
sanctified
,
they
justifie
God
,
and
fall
out
with
sin
,
they
condemn
themselves
and
give
glory
to
God
,
Dan.
9.
7.
O
Lord
,
righteousness
belongeth
unto
thee
,
but
unto
us
confusJon
of
faces
,
&c.
And
Lam.
3.
39.
●Wherefore
doth
a
living
man
complain
,
a
man
for
the
punishment
of
his
sins
?
Happy
afflictions
which
make
the
Soul
fall
out
and
quarrel
only
with
sin
.
It
is
a
sure
sign
afflicting
Providences
are
sanctified
when
they
purge
the
heart
from
sin
,
and
leave
both
heart
and
life
more
pure
,
heavenly
,
mortified
,
and
humble
than
they
found
them
.
Sanctified
afflictions
are
cleansers
,
they
pull
down
the
pride
,
refine
the
earthliness
,
and
purge
out
the
vanity
of
the
Spirit
.
So
you
read
,
Dan.
11.
35.
it
purifies
and
makes
their
Souls
white
:
Hence
it
's
compar'd
to
a
furnace
which
separates
the
dross
from
the
pure
metal
,
Isa.
48.
10.
Behold
I
have
refined
thee
,
but
not
with
Silver
:
I
have
chosen
thee
in
the
furnace
of
afflictJon
.
But
for
wicked
men
,
let
them
be
never
so
long
in
the
Furnace
,
they
lose
no
dross
,
Ezek.
24.
6.
How
many
Christians
can
bear
witness
to
this
truth
!
After
some
sharp
affliction
hath
been
upon
them
,
how
is
the
earthliness
of
their
hearts
purged
!
they
see
no
beauty
,
taste
no
more
relish
in
the
world
than
in
the
white
of
an
Egg.
Oh
how
serious
,
humble
,
and
heavenly
are
they
,
till
the
impressions
made
upon
them
by
afflictions
be
worn
off
,
and
their
deceitful
lusts
have
again
entangled
them
!
And
this
is
the
reason
▪
why
we
are
so
often
under
the
discipline
of
the
rod.
Let
a
Christian
(
saith
a
late
writer
)
be
but
two
or
three
years
without
an
affliction
,
and
he
is
almost
good
for
nothing
:
he
cannot
pray
,
nor
meditate
,
nor
discourse
at
that
rate
he
was
wont
to
do
:
but
when
a
new
affliction
comes
,
now
he
can
find
his
tongue
,
and
come
to
his
knees
again
,
and
live
at
another
rate
.
It
is
a
good
sign
afflictive
Providences
are
sanctified
to
us
,
when
we
draw
near
to
God
under
them
and
turn
to
him
that
smites
us
.
A
wicked
man
under
affliction
revolts
more
and
more
,
Isa.
1.
5.
turns
not
to
him
that
smites
him
,
Isa.
9.
13.
but
grows
worse
than
before
;
formality
is
turned
into
stupidity
and
dedolency
.
But
if
God
afflict
his
own
people
with
a
sanctified
rod
,
it
awakens
them
to
a
more
earnest
seeking
of
God
:
it
makes
them
pray
more
frequently
,
spiritually
and
fervently
than
ever
.
When
Paul
was
buffeted
by
Satan
,
he
besought
the
Lord
thrice
,
2
Cor.
12.
8.
We
may
conclude
our
afflictions
to
be
san●tified
,
and
to
come
from
the
love
of
God
to
us
,
when
they
do
not
alienate
our
hearts
from
God
,
but
inflame
our
love
to
him
.
This
is
a
sure
rule
,
Whatever
ends
in
the
increase
of
our
love
to
God
,
proceeds
from
the
love
of
God
to
us
.
A
wicked
man
finds
his
heart
rising
against
God
when
he
smites
him
;
but
a
gracious
heart
cleaves
the
closer
to
him
:
he
can
love
,
as
well
as
justifie
an
afflicting
God
.
All
this
is
come
upon
us
:
yet
have
we
not
forgotten
thee
,
neither
have
we
dealt
falsly
in
thy
Covenant
▪
our
heart
is
not
turned
back
,
neither
have
our
steps
declined
from
thy
way
:
though
thou
hast
sore
broken
us
in
the
place
of
Dragons
,
and
covered
us
with
the
shadow
of
Death
,
Psal.
44.
17
,
18
,
19.
Here
you
have
a
true
account
of
the
temper
and
frame
of
a
gracious
soul
under
greatest
afflictions
.
To
be
broken
in
the
place
of
Dragons
and
covered
with
the
shadow
of
death
imports
the
most
dismal
state
of
affliction
:
yet
even
then
a
gracious
heart
turns
not
back
(
i.
e.
)
doth
not
for
all
this
abate
one
drachm
of
love
to
God
:
God
is
as
good
and
dear
to
him
in
afflictions
as
ever
.
Lastly
,
We
may
call
our
afflictions
sanctified
when
divine
teachings
accompany
them
to
our
souls
,
Psal.
94.
12.
Blessed
is
the
man
whom
thou
chastenest
,
O
Lord
,
and
teachest
him
out
of
thy
law
.
Sanctified
afflictions
are
eye-salve
,
they
teach
us
sensibly
and
effectually
when
the
Spirit
accompanies
them
;
the
evil
of
sin
,
the
vanity
of
the
creature
,
the
necessity
of
securing
things
that
cannot
be
shaken
.
Never
doth
a
Christian
take
a
truer
measure
both
of
his
corruptions
and
graces
,
than
under
the
rod.
Now
a
man
sees
that
●ilthiness
that
hath
been
long
contracting
in
prosperity
,
what
interest
the
Creature
hath
in
the
heart
,
how
little
faith
,
patience
,
resignation
,
and
self-denyal
we
can
find
,
when
God
calls
us
to
the
exercise
of
them
.
O
't
is
a
blessed
sign
,
that
trouble
is
sanctified
,
that
makes
a
man
thus
turn
in
upon
his
own
heart
,
search
it
,
and
humble
himself
before
the
Lord
for
the
evils
of
it
!
IN
the
next
place
let
us
take
into
consideration
the
other
branch
of
Providences
which
are
comfortable
and
pleasant
.
Sometimes
it
smiles
upon
us
in
successes
,
prosperity
,
and
the
gratification
of
the
desires
of
our
hearts
.
Here
the
Question
will
be
how
the
sanctification
o●
these
Providences
may
be
discovered
to
us
?
For
resolution
in
this
matter
,
I
shall
for
clearness
sake
lay
down
two
sorts
of
Rules
;
one
Negative
,
the
other
positive
.
First
Negative
.
It
is
a
sign
,
that
comfort
is
not
sanctified
to
us
,
which
comes
not
(
ordinarily
)
in
the
way
of
Prayer
.
The
wicked
boasteth
of
hi●
hearts
desire
,
and
blesseth
the
covetous
whom
the
Lord
abhorreth
.
The
wicked
through
the
pride
of
his
countenance
will
〈◊〉
s●●k
after
God
;
God
is
not
in
all
his
thoughts
,
Psal.
10.
3
,
4.
Here
you
see
Providence
may
give
men
their
hearts
desire
,
and
yet
they
never
once
open
their
desires
to
God
in
prayer
about
it
.
But
then
those
gifts
of
Providence
are
only
such
as
are
bestowed
on
the
worst
of
men
,
and
are
not
the
fruits
of
love
.
Whatever
success
,
prosperity
or
comfort
men
acquire
by
sinful
medJums
,
and
indirect
courses
,
are
not
sanctified
mercies
to
them
.
This
is
not
the
method
in
which
those
mercies
are
bestowed
.
Better
is
a
little
with
righteousness
,
than
great
revenews
without
right
,
Prov.
16.
8.
better
upon
this
account
,
that
it
comes
in
Gods
way
,
and
with
his
blessing
,
which
never
follows
the
way
of
sin
.
God
hath
cursed
the
wayes
of
sin
,
and
no
blessing
can
follow
them
.
Whatever
prosperity
and
success
makes
men
forget
God
,
and
cast
off
the
care
of
duty
,
is
not
sanctifJed
to
them
.
It
is
unsanctifJed
prosperity
which
lulls
men
asleep
into
a
deep
oblivJon
of
God
,
Deut.
32.
13
,
14
,
15
,
18.
He
made
him
ride
on
the
high
places
of
the
earth
,
that
he
might
eat
the
increase
of
the
fields
;
and
he
made
him
to
suck
honey
out
of
the
rock
,
and
oyl
out
of
the
flinty
rock
,
butter
of
Kine
,
and
milk
of
Sheep
,
with
fat
of
Lambs
,
and
rams
of
the
breed
of
Bashan
,
and
Goats
,
with
the
fat
of
kidneys
of
wheat
,
and
thou
didst
drink
the
pure
blood
of
the
grape
;
but
Iesurun
waxed
fat
and
kicked
;
thou
art
waxed
fat
,
thou
art
grown
thick
,
thou
art
covered
with
fatness
:
then
he
forsook
God
which
made
him
,
and
lightly
esteemed
the
Rock
of
his
Salvation
.
Of
the
Rock
that
begat
thee
thou
art
unmindful
,
and
hast
forgotten
God
that
formed
thee
.
Rarè
fumant
foelicibus
arae
.
When
prosperity
is
abused
to
sensuality
,
and
meerly
serves
as
fuell
to
maintains
fleshly
lusts
,
it
is
not
sanctifJed
.
See
Job
21.
11
,
12
,
13.
They
send
forth
their
little
ones
like
a
flock
,
and
their
Children
dance
.
They
take
the
Timbrell
and
Harp
,
and
rejoyce
at
the
sound
of
the
Organ
.
They
spend
their
dayes
in
wealth
,
and
in
a
moment
go
down
to
the
grave
.
It
's
a
sign
that
prosperity
is
not
sanctifJed
to
men
,
when
it
swells
the
heart
with
pride
and
self-conceitedness
,
Dan.
4.
29
,
30.
At
the
end
of
twelve
moneths
he
walked
in
the
Palace
of
the
Kingdom
of
Babylon
.
The
King
spake
and
said
,
Is
not
this
great
Babylon
that
I
have
built
for
the
house
of
the
Kingdom
,
by
the
might
of
my
power
,
and
for
the
honour
of
my
Majesty
?
That
success
is
not
sanctified
to
men
,
which
takes
them
off
from
their
duty
,
and
makes
them
wholly
negligent
,
or
very
much
indisposed
to
it
,
Jer.
2.
31.
O
generatJon
,
see
the
Word
of
the
Lord
;
have
I
been
a
Wilderness
unto
Israel
?
a
land
of
darkness
?
Wherefore
say
my
people
,
We
are
Lords
,
we
will
come
no
more
unto
thee
?
Nor
can
we
think
that
prosperity
sanctifJed
,
which
wholly
swallows
up
the
souls
of
men
in
their
own
enjoyments
,
and
makes
them
regardless
of
publick
miserJes
or
sins
,
Amos
6.
4
,
5
,
6.
They
lye
upon
beds
of
Ivory
,
and
stretch
themselves
upon
their
couches
,
and
eat
the
lambs
out
of
the
flock
,
and
the
calves
out
of
the
midst
of
the
stall
.
They
chant
to
the
sound
of
the
Viol
,
and
invent
to
themselves
Instruments
of
musick
like
David
.
They
drink
wine
in
bowls
,
and
anoint
themselves
with
the
chief
ointments
;
but
they
are
not
grieved
for
the
afflictions
of
Ioseph
.
But
then
Positively
.
Those
mercies
and
comforts
are
undoubtedly
sanctified
to
men
,
which
humble
their
souls
kindly
before
God
in
the
sense
of
their
own
vileness
and
unworthiness
of
them
,
Gen.
32.
10.
And
Jacob
said
,
I
am
not
worthy
of
the
least
of
all
the
mercJes
,
&c.
Sanctified
mercies
are
commonly
turned
into
Cautions
against
sin
,
Ezra
9.
13.
they
are
so
many
bands
of
restraint
upon
the
soul
that
hath
them
,
to
make
them
shun
sin
.
They
will
engage
a
mans
heart
in
love
to
the
God
of
his
mercies
,
Psal.
18.
1.
compared
with
the
Title
.
They
never
satisfie
a
man
as
his
Portion
,
nor
will
the
soul
accept
all
the
prosperity
in
the
world
upon
that
score
,
Heb.
11.
26.
Esteeming
the
reproach
,
of
Christ
greater
riches
than
the
treasures
in
Egypt
:
for
he
had
respect
unto
the
recompence
of
the
reward
.
Nor
do
they
make
men
regardless
of
Publick
sins
or
miseries
,
Nehem.
2.
1
,
2
,
3.
compared
with
Acts
7.
23.
It
's
a
sure
sign
that
mercJes
are
sanctifJed
,
when
they
make
the
soul
more
expedite
and
enlarged
for
God
in
duty
,
2
Chron.
17.
5
,
6.
Therefore
the
Lord
stablished
the
Kingdom
in
his
hand
,
and
all
Iudah
brought
to
Iehoshaphat
presents
,
and
he
had
riches
and
honour
in
abundance
.
And
his
heart
was
lift
up
in
the
wayes
of
the
Lord
,
&c.
To
conclude
,
That
which
is
obtained
by
prayer
,
and
returned
to
God
again
in
due
praise
carries
its
own
testimonials
with
it
,
that
it
came
from
the
love
of
God
,
and
is
a
sanctified
mercy
to
the
soul.
And
so
much
of
this
Third
Case
.
The
Fourth
Case
.
HOw
may
we
attain
unto
an
evenness
and
steddiness
of
spirit
under
the
Changes
,
and
contrary
Aspects
of
Providence
upon
us
?
Three
things
are
supposed
in
this
Case
.
-
1.
That
Providence
hath
various
and
contrary
Aspects
upon
the
people
of
God
.
-
2.
That
it
is
a
common
thing
with
them
,
to
experience
great
disorders
of
spirit
under
those
Changes
of
Providence
.
-
3.
That
these
disorders
may
be
(
at
least
in
a
great
measure
)
prevented
,
by
the
due
use
and
application
of
those
rules
and
helps
that
God
hath
given
us
in
such
Cases
.
That
Providence
hath
various
,
yea
,
contrary
Aspects
upon
the
people
of
God
,
is
a
case
so
plain
,
that
it
needs
no
more
than
the
mentioning
,
to
let
it
in
to
all
our
Understandings
.
Which
of
all
the
people
of
God
have
not
felt
this
truth
?
Providence
rings
the
changes
all
the
world
over
.
He
encreaseth
the
NatJons
,
and
destroyeth
them
;
he
enlargeth
the
NatJons
,
and
straitneth
them
again
,
Job
12.
23.
The
same
it
doth
with
persons
,
Psal.
102.
10.
Thou
hast
lifted
me
up
,
and
cast
me
down
.
See
what
a
sad
Alteration
Providence
made
upon
the
Church
,
Lam.
1.
1
,
12.
How
doth
the
City
sit
solitary
that
was
full
of
people
!
How
is
she
become
as
a
Widow
!
She
that
was
great
among
the
NatJons
,
and
Princess
among
the
Provinces
,
how
is
she
become
tributary
!
Is
it
nothing
to
you
,
all
ye
that
pass
by
?
Behold
and
see
,
if
there
be
any
sorrow
like
unto
my
sorrow
,
which
is
done
unto
me
,
wherewith
the
Lord
hath
afflicted
me
in
the
day
of
his
fJerce
anger
.
And
how
great
an
Instance
was
Joh
of
this
truth
,
Job
29.
per
tot
.
and
30.
compared
?
How
many
thousands
have
complained
with
Naomi
,
whose
condition
hath
been
so
strangely
altered
,
that
others
have
said
as
the
people
of
Bethlehem
did
of
her
,
Is
this
Naomi
?
Ruth
1.
19
,
20
,
21.
These
Vicissitudes
of
Providence
commonly
cause
great
disorders
of
spirit
in
the
best
men
.
Look
as
intense
heat
and
cold
try
the
strength
and
soundness
of
the
constitution
of
our
bodies
,
so
the
alteratJons
made
by
Providence
upon
our
conditions
,
try
the
strength
of
our
graces
;
and
too
often
discover
the
weakness
and
corruption
of
holy
men
.
HezekJah
was
a
good
man
;
but
yet
his
weakness
and
corruption
was
bewrayed
by
the
alterations
Providence
made
upon
his
conditions
.
When
sickness
and
pains
summoned
him
to
the
grave
,
what
bitter
complaints
and
despondencies
are
recorded
?
in
Isa.
38.
per
tot
.
and
when
Providence
lifted
him
up
again
into
a
prosperous
condition
,
what
ostentation
and
vain
glory
did
he
discover
?
Isa.
39.
2.
David
had
more
than
a
common
stock
of
inherent
grace
,
yet
not
enough
to
keep
him
in
an
equal
temper
of
spirit
under
great
alterations
,
Psal.
30.
6
,
7.
In
my
prosperity
I
said
I
shall
never
be
moved
;
thou
hidest
thy
face
and
I
was
troubled
.
It
is
not
every
man
can
say
with
Paul
,
I
know
both
how
to
be
abased
,
and
I
know
how
to
abound
every
where
,
and
in
all
things
I
am
instructed
both
to
be
full
,
and
to
be
hungry
,
both
to
abound
and
to
suffer
need
,
Phil.
4.
12.
He
is
truly
rich
in
grace
,
whose
riches
or
poverty
neither
hinders
the
acting
,
nor
impoverisheth
the
stock
of
his
graces
.
Though
the
best
men
be
subject
to
such
disorders
of
heart
under
the
changes
of
Providence
;
yet
these
disorders
may
in
a
great
measure
be
prevented
by
the
due
application
of
such
Rules
and
helps
,
as
God
hath
given
us
in
such
cases
.
Now
,
these
helps
are
suited
to
a
threefold
Aspect
of
Providence
upon
us
:
viz.
-
1.
Comfortable
,
-
2.
Calamitous
,
-
3.
Doubtful
.
To
all
which
I
shall
speak
particularly
and
briefly
.
Quest.
1.
HOw
may
we
attain
to
an
Evenness
and
Steddiness
of
heart
under
the
comfortable
Aspects
of
Providence
upon
us
?
Under
Providences
of
this
kind
,
the
great
danger
is
,
lest
the
heart
be
lifted
up
with
pride
and
vanity
,
and
fall
into
a
drowsie
and
remiss
temper
.
To
prevent
this
,
we
had
need
urge
humbling
and
awakening
Considerations
upon
our
own
hearts
;
such
are
these
that
follow
.
First
Consideration
.
These
gifts
of
Providence
are
common
to
the
worst
of
men
,
and
are
no
special
distinguishing
fruits
of
Gods
love
.
The
vilest
of
men
have
been
filled
even
to
satiety
with
these
things
,
Psal.
73.
7.
Their
eyes
stand
out
with
fatness
:
they
have
more
than
heart
could
wish
.
Second
Consideration
.
Think
how
unstable
and
changeable
all
these
things
are
.
What
you
glory
in
to
day
,
may
be
none
of
yours
to
morrow
,
Prov.
23.
5.
Riches
make
themselves
wings
,
and
flee
away
as
an
Eagle
towards
Heaven
.
As
the
Wings
of
a
Fowl
grow
out
of
the
substance
of
its
body
,
so
the
cause
of
the
Creatures
transitoriness
is
in
it self
:
It
's
subjected
to
vanity
,
and
that
vanity
,
like
Wings
,
carries
it
away
:
they
are
but
fading
flowers
,
James
,
1.
10.
Third
Consideration
.
The
Change
of
Providences
is
never
nearer
to
the
people
of
God
,
than
when
their
hearts
are
lifted
up
,
or
grown
secure
by
prosperity
.
Doth
HezekJah
glory
in
his
Treasures
?
The
next
news
he
hears
,
is
of
an
impoverishing
Providence
at
hand
,
Isa.
39.
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7.
Others
may
be
left
to
perish
in
unsanctified
Prosperity
,
but
you
shall
not
.
Fourth
Consideration
.
This
is
a
great
discovery
of
the
Carnality
and
corruption
that
is
in
thy
heart
:
it
argues
an
heart
little
set
upon
God
,
little
mortified
to
the
world
,
little
acquainted
with
the
vanity
and
ensnaring
nature
of
these
things
.
O
you
know
not
what
hearts
you
have
,
till
such
Providences
try
them
.
And
is
not
such
a
discovery
matter
of
deep
humiliation
?
Fifth
Consideration
.
Was
it
not
better
with
you
in
a
low
condition
,
than
it
is
now
?
Reflect
,
and
compare
state
with
state
,
and
time
with
time
.
How
is
the
frame
of
your
hearts
altered
with
the
alteration
of
your
condition
?
So
God
complains
of
Israel
,
Hosea
13.
5
,
6.
I
did
know
thee
in
the
Wilderness
,
the
land
of
drought
;
according
to
their
pasture
,
so
were
they
filled
:
they
were
filled
,
and
their
heart
was
exalted
,
therefore
have
they
forgotten
me
saith
the
Lord
:
q.
d.
You
and
I
were
better
acquainted
formerly
when
you
were
in
a
low
condition
;
Prosperity
hath
estranged
you
,
and
altered
the
case
.
How
sad
is
it
,
that
Gods
mercies
should
be
the
occasion
of
our
estrangement
from
him
?
Quest.
2.
UPon
the
other
side
,
it
's
worth
considering
how
our
hearts
may
be
establisht
and
kept
steddy
under
Ca●amitous
and
adverse
Providences
.
Here
we
are
in
equal
danger
of
the
other
Extream
,
viz.
despondency
and
sinking
under
the
frowns
and
strokes
of
cross
Providences
.
Now
to
support
and
establish
the
heart
in
this
case
,
take
three
helps
.
First
Consideration
.
First
,
Consider
,
That
afflictive
Providences
are
of
great
use
to
the
people
of
God
,
they
cannot
live
without
them
.
The
Earth
doth
not
more
need
chastening
frosts
,
and
mellowing
snows
,
than
our
hearts
do
nipping
Providences
.
Let
the
best
Christian
be
but
a
few
years
without
them
,
and
he
will
be
sensible
of
the
need
of
them
;
he
will
find
a
sad
remissJon
and
declining
upon
all
his
graces
.
Second
Consideration
.
No
stroke
of
Calamity
upon
the
people
of
God
,
can
separate
them
from
Christ
,
Rom.
8.
35.
Who
shall
separate
us
from
the
love
of
Christ
?
Shall
TribulatJon
?
There
was
a
time
when
Job
could
call
nothing
in
this
world
but
trouble
his
own
:
he
could
not
say
,
my
Estate
,
my
Honour
,
my
Health
,
my
Children
;
for
all
these
were
gone
;
yet
then
he
could
say
,
my
Redeemer
,
Job
19.
25.
Well
then
,
there
is
no
cause
to
sink
whilst
Interest
in
Christ
remains
sure
to
us
.
Third
Consideration
.
All
your
calamities
will
have
an
end
shortly
.
The
longest
day
of
the
Saints
troubles
hath
an
end
;
and
then
,
no
more
troubles
for
ever
.
The
troubles
of
the
wicked
will
be
to
Eternity
;
but
you
shall
suffer
but
a
while
,
1
Pet.
5.
10.
If
a
thousand
troubles
be
appointed
for
you
,
they
will
come
to
one
at
last
,
and
after
that
no
more
:
Yea
,
and
though
our
troubles
be
but
for
a
moment
,
yet
they
work
for
us
a
far
more
exceeding
and
eternal
weight
of
glory
.
Let
that
support
your
hearts
under
all
your
sufferings
.
Quest.
3.
LAstly
,
Let
us
consider
,
what
may
be
useful
to
support
and
quiet
our
hearts
under
doubtful
Providences
,
when
our
dear
concernments
hang
in
a
doubtful
suspence
before
us
,
and
we
know
not
which
way
the
Providence
of
God
will
cast
and
determine
them
.
Now
the
best
hearts
are
apt
to
grow
solicitous
and
pensive
,
distracted
with
thoughtfulness
about
the
event
and
issue
.
To
relieve
and
settle
us
in
this
case
,
the
following
Considerations
are
very
useful
.
First
Consideration
.
First
,
Let
us
consider
the
vanity
and
inutility
of
such
a
solicitude
,
Matth.
6.
27.
Which
of
you
(
saith
our
Lord
)
by
taking
thought
can
add
one
Cubit
?
We
may
break
our
peace
,
and
waste
our
Spirits
,
but
not
alter
the
Case
.
We
cannot
turn
God
out
of
his
way
,
Job
23.
13.
He
is
in
one
mind
.
We
may
by
strugling
against
God
increase
,
but
not
avoid
or
lighten
our
troubles
.
Second
Consideration
.
How
often
do
we
afflict
and
torment
our selves
by
our
own
unquiet
thoughts
,
when
there
is
no
real
cause
or
ground
for
so
doing
?
Isa.
51.
13.
—
And
hast
feared
continually
every
day
,
because
of
the
fury
of
the
oppressor
,
as
if
he
were
ready
to
destroy
,
and
where
is
the
fury
of
the
oppressor
?
O
what
abundance
of
disquiet
and
trouble
might
we
prevent
,
by
waiting
quietly
till
we
see
the
issues
of
Providence
,
and
not
bringing
as
we
do
the
evils
of
the
morrow
upon
the
day
?
Third
Consideration
.
How
great
a
ground
of
quietness
is
it
that
the
whole
dispose
and
management
of
all
our
affairs
and
concerns
is
in
the
hand
of
our
own
God
and
Father
?
No
Creature
can
touch
us
without
his
commission
or
permission
.
I
know
(
saith
Christ
)
thou
couldst
have
no
power
against
me
,
except
it
were
given
thee
from
above
,
John
19.
11.
Neither
Men
nor
Devils
can
act
any
thing
without
Gods
leave
;
and
be
sure
he
will
sign
no
order
to
your
prejudice
.
Fourth
Consideration
.
How
great
satisfaction
must
it
be
to
all
that
believe
the
Divine
Authority
of
the
Scripture
,
that
the
faith●ulness
of
God
stands
engaged
for
every
line
and
syllable
found
therein
?
And
how
many
blessed
lines
in
the
Bible
may
we
mark
,
that
respect
even
our
outward
concerns
,
and
the
happy
issue
of
them
all
?
Upon
these
two
grounds
,
viz.
that
our
outward
concerns
with
their
steddy
direction
to
a
blessed
end
is
●ound
in
the
Word
;
and
this
Word
being
of
Divine
Authority
,
the
faithfulness
and
honour
of
God
stands
good
for
every
Title
that
is
found
there
.
I
say
these
are
grounds
of
such
stability
,
that
our
minds
may
repose
with
greatest
security
and
confidence
upon
them
even
in
the
cloudiest
day
of
trouble
.
Not
only
your
eternal
salvation
,
but
your
temporal
Interests
are
there
secured
.
Be
quieted
therefore
in
the
confidence
of
a
blessed
issue
.
Fifth
Consideration
.
How
great
and
sure
an
expedient
have
the
Saints
ever
found
it
to
their
own
peace
,
to
commit
all
doubtful
issues
of
Providence
to
the
Lord
,
and
devolve
all
their
cares
upon
him
,
Prov.
16.
3.
Commit
thy
works
unto
the
Lord
,
and
thy
thoughts
shall
be
established
.
By
Works
he
means
any
doubtful
,
intricate
,
perplexing
business
▪
about
which
our
thoughts
are
rackt
and
tortur'd
.
Roll
all
these
upon
the
Lord
by
faith
,
leave
them
with
him
,
and
the
present
immediate
benefit
you
shall
have
by
it
(
besides
the
comfort
in
the
last
issue
)
shall
be
tranquillity
and
peace
in
your
thoughts
.
And
who
is
there
of
any
standing
or
Experience
in
Religion
that
hath
not
found
it
so
?
The
Fifth
Case
.
HOw
may
a
Christian
work
his
heart
into
a
resigning
frame
unto
the
will
of
God
;
when
sad
Providences
approach
him
,
and
presage
great
troubles
and
afflictions
coming
on
towards
him
?
For
the
right
stating
and
resolving
of
this
important
case
,
it
will
be
needful
to
shew
(
1.
)
What
is
not
included
and
intended
in
the
Question
.
(
2.
)
What
it
doth
suppose
and
include
in
it
,
and
lastly
,
what
helps
and
directions
are
necessary
for
the
due
performance
of
this
great
and
difficult
duty
.
First
,
Negatively
.
As
to
the
first
,
It
must
be
premised
that
the
Question
doth
not
suppose
the
heart
or
will
of
a
Christian
to
be
at
his
own
command
and
dispose
in
this
matter
:
we
cannot
resign
it
,
and
subject
it
to
the
will
of
God
whenever
we
desire
so
to
do
:
the
duty
indeed
is
ours
,
but
the
power
by
which
alone
we
perform
it
is
Gods
:
We
act
as
we
are
acted
by
the
Spirit
.
It
is
with
our
hearts
▪
as
with
me●eors
hanging
in
the
air
▪
by
the
influence
of
the
Sun
;
while
that
continues
they
abide
above
,
but
when
it
fails
they
fall
to
the
earth
:
We
can
do
this
,
and
all
things
else
be
they
never
so
difficult
,
through
Christ
that
strengthens
us
,
Phil.
4.
13.
But
without
him
we
can
do
nothing
,
John
15.
5.
he
doth
not
say
,
without
me
ye
can
do
but
little
,
or
without
me
ye
can
do
nothing
but
with
great
difficulty
,
or
without
me
ye
can
do
nothing
perfectly
;
but
without
me
ye
can
do
nothing
at
all
.
And
every
Christian
hath
a
witness
in
his
own
breast
to
attest
this
truth
:
for
there
are
cases
frequently
occurring
in
the
methods
of
Providence
,
in
which
notwithstanding
all
their
prayers
and
desires
,
all
their
reasonings
and
strivings
,
they
cannot
quiet
their
hearts
fully
in
the
dispose
;
and
will
of
God
;
but
on
the
contrary
do
find
all
their
endeavours
in
this
matter
,
to
be
but
as
the
rolling
of
a
returning
stone
against
the
Hill
:
till
God
say
to
the
heart
be
still
,
and
to
the
will
give
up
,
nothing
can
be
done
.
Secondly
,
Affirmatively
.
Next
,
Let
us
consider
what
this
case
doth
suppose
,
and
include
in
it
,
and
we
shall
find
That
it
supposeth
the
people
of
God
to
have
a
foresight
of
troubles
and
distresses
approaching
and
drawing
near
to
them
:
I
confess
't
is
not
always
so
,
for
many
of
our
afflictions
,
as
well
as
comforts
,
come
by
way
of
surprizals
upon
us
:
but
oft
times
we
have
forewarnings
of
trouble●
both
publick
and
personal
,
before
we
feel
them
:
as
the
weather
may
be
discerned
by
the
●ace
of
the
Sky
,
when
we
see
a
morning
Sky
red
and
lowring
,
this
is
a
natural
sign
of
a
foul
and
rainy
day
,
Matth.
16.
3.
and
there
are
as
certain
signs
of
the
times
,
whereby
we
may
discern
when
trouble
is
near
,
even
at
the
door
:
And
these
forewarnings
are
given
by
the
Lord
to
awaken
us
to
our
duties
,
by
which
they
may
either
be
prevented
,
Zeph.
2.
1
,
2.
or
sanctified
and
sweetned
to
us
when
they
come
.
These
signs
and
notices
of
approaching
troubles
are
gathered
partly
from
the
observatJon
and
collation
of
parallel
Scripture
cases
and
examples
,
God
generally
holding
one
tenour
and
steddy
course
in
the
administrations
of
his
Providences
in
all
ages
,
1
Cor.
10.
6.
partly
from
the
ReflectJons
Christians
make
upon
the
frames
and
tempers
of
their
own
hearts
,
which
greatly
need
awakening
,
humbling
and
purging
Providences
.
For
let
a
Christian
be
but
a
few
years
or
months
without
a
rod
,
and
how
formal
,
earthly
,
dead
and
vain
,
will
his
heart
grow
?
And
such
a
temper
presages
affliction
to
them
that
are
beloved
of
the
Lord
,
as
really
as
the
giving
or
sweating
of
the
stones
doth
rain
.
Lastly
,
The
ordering
and
disposing
of
the
next
causes
into
a
posture
and
preparation
for
our
trouble
,
plainly
premonisheth
us
that
trouble
is
at
the
door
.
Thus
when
the
symptoms
of
sickness
begin
to
appear
upon
our
own
bodies
,
the
wi●e
of
our
bosome
,
or
our
children
that
are
as
our
own
souls
,
Providence
herein
awakens
our
expectations
of
death
and
doleful
separations
:
so
when
enemies
combine
together
and
plot
the
ruine
of
our
liberties
,
estates
,
or
lives
,
and
God
seemeth
to
loose
the
bridle
of
restraint
upon
their
necks
,
now
we
cannot
but
be
alarmed
with
the
near
approach
of
troubles
,
especially
when
at
the
same
time
our
conscience
shall
reflect
upon
the
abuse
and
non-improvement
of
these
our
threatned
comforts
.
The
case
before
us
supposeth
,
that
these
premonitions
and
fore-runners
of
affliction
,
do
usually
very
much
disturb
the
order
and
break
the
peace
of
our
souls
,
they
put
the
mind
under
great
discomposure
,
the
thoughts
under
much
distraction
,
and
the
affections
into
tumults
and
rebellion
.
Ah
how
unwilling
are
we
to
surrender
to
the
Lord
the
Loan
which
he
lent
us
!
to
be
disquieted
by
troubles
when
at
ease
in
our
enjoyments
!
How
unwelcome
are
the
messengers
of
affliction
to
the
best
men
!
we
are
ready
to
say
to
them
as
the
Widow
to
Elijah
,
What
have
I
to
do
with
thee
,
O
man
(
O
messenger
)
of
God
,
art
thou
come
unto
me
to
call
my
sin
to
remembrance
,
and
to
slay
my
Son
?
1
King
.
17.
18.
And
this
ariseth
partly
from
the
remains
of
corruption
in
the
best
souls
,
for
though
every
sanctified
person
is
come
by
his
own
consent
into
the
Kingdom
,
and
under
the
government
and
Scepter
of
Christ
,
and
every
thought
of
his
heart
de
jure
,
and
of
right
must
be
subjected
to
him
,
2
Cor.
10.
5.
yet
de
facto
the
conquest
and
power
of
grace
is
but
incompleat
and
in
part
,
and
natural
corruption
like
Jerob●am
with
his
vain
men
riseth
up
against
it
,
and
●auseth
many
mutinies
in
the
soul
,
whil'st
grace
like
young
Abijah
is
weak
handed
,
and
cannot
resist
them
.
And
partly
from
the
advantage
Satan
makes
upon
the
season
to
irritate
and
assist
our
corrupt●ons
:
he
knows
that
which
is
already
in
motion
,
is
the
more
easily
moved
.
In
this
confusion
and
hurry
of
thoughts
he
undiscernedly
shuffles
in
his
temptations
.
Sometimes
aggravating
the
evils
which
we
fear
with
all
the
sinking
and
overwhelming
circumstances
imaginable
.
Sometimes
divining
and
fore-casting
such
events
and
evils
,
as
(
haply
)
never
fall
out
.
Sometimes
repining
at
the
disposes
of
God
as
more
severe
to
us
than
others
.
And
sometimes
reflecting
with
very
unbelieving
and
unworthy
thoughts
upon
the
promises
of
God
,
and
his
faithfulness
in
them
,
by
all
which
the
affliction
is
made
to
sink
deep
into
the
soul
before
it
actually
comes
.
The
thoughts
are
so
disordered
,
that
duty
cannot
be
duly
performed
.
And
the
soul
is
really
weakned
,
and
disabled
to
bear
its
tryal
when
it
comes
indeed
:
just
as
if
a
man
should
be
kept
waking
and
restless
all
the
night
with
the
thoughts
of
his
hard
journey
which
he
must
travel
to
morrow
,
and
so
when
to
morrow
is
come
,
he
faints
for
want
of
rest
,
mid-way
his
journey
.
It
is
here
supposed
to
be
the
Christians
great
duty
,
under
the
apprehensions
of
approaching
troubles
to
resign
his
will
to
Gods
,
and
quietly
commit
the
events
and
issues
of
all
to
him
,
whatever
they
may
prove
.
Thus
did
David
in
the
like
case
and
circumstances
,
2
Sam.
15.
25
,
26.
And
the
King
said
unto
Zadock
,
carry
back
the
Ark
of
God
into
the
City
.
If
I
shall
find
favour
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
,
he
will
bring
me
back
again
,
and
shew
me
both
it
and
his
habitatJon
:
but
if
he
shall
thus
say
,
I
have
no
delight
in
thee
,
behold
here
am
I
,
let
him
do
to
me
as
seemeth
good
to
him
.
O
lovely
and
truly
Christian
temper
!
q.
d.
go
Zadock
,
return
with
the
Ark
to
its
place
,
though
I
have
not
the
symbol
,
yet
I
hope
I
shall
have
the
real
presence
of
God
with
me
in
this
sad
journey
:
how
he
will
dispose
the
events
of
this
sad
and
doubtful
Providence
I
know
not
:
Either
I
shall
return
again
to
Jerusalem
,
or
I
shall
not
:
If
I
do
,
then
I
shall
see
it
again
,
and
enjoy
the
Lord
in
his
ordinances
there
.
If
I
do
not
,
then
I
shall
go
to
that
place
where
there
is
no
need
or
use
of
those
things
.
And
either
way
it
will
be
well
for
me
,
I
am
content
to
refer
all
to
the
divine
pleasure
,
and
commit
the
issue
,
be
it
whatever
it
will
be
,
to
the
Lord
.
And
till
our
hearts
come
to
the
like
resolve
,
we
can
have
no
peace
within
.
Commit
thy
works
unto
the
Lord
,
and
thy
thoughts
shall
be
established
,
Prov.
16.
3.
By
works
he
means
not
only
every
enterprize
and
business
we
undertake
,
but
every
puzzling
,
intricate
,
and
doubtful
event
we
fear
.
These
being
once
committed
by
an
act
of
faith
,
and
our
wills
resigned
unto
his
,
besides
the
comfort
we
shall
have
in
the
issue
,
we
shall
have
the
present
advantage
of
a
well
composed
,
and
peaceful
Spirit
.
But
this
resignation
is
the
difficulty
;
no
doubt
of
peace
,
could
we
once
bring
our
hearts
to
that
.
And
therefore
I
shall
here
subjoyn
such
helps
and
directions
,
as
may
through
Gods
blessing
,
in
the
faithful
use
of
them
,
assist
and
facilitate
this
great
and
difficult
work
.
First
Help
.
And
first
,
Labour
to
work
into
your
hearts
a
deep
and
fixed
sense
of
the
infinite
wisdom
of
God
,
and
your
own
folly
and
ignorance
.
This
will
make
resignation
easie
to
you
:
whatsoever
the
Lord
doth
is
by
counsel
,
Eph.
1.
11.
his
understanding
is
infinite
,
Psal.
147.
5.
his
thoughts
are
very
deep
,
Psal.
92.
5.
but
as
for
man
,
yea
the
wisest
among
men
,
how
little
doth
his
understanding
penetrate
the
works
and
designs
of
Providence
?
And
how
oft
are
we
forced
to
retract
our
rash
opinions
,
and
confess
our
mistakes
?
acknowledging
that
if
Providence
had
not
seen
with
better
eyes
than
ours
,
and
looked
farther
than
we
did
,
we
had
precipitated
our selves
into
a
thousand
mischiefs
,
which
by
its
wisdom
and
care
we
have
escaped
.
It
's
well
for
us
that
the
seven
eyes
of
Providence
are
ever
awake
,
and
looking
out
for
our
good
.
Now
if
one
creature
can
and
ought
to
be
guided
and
governed
by
another
that
is
more
wise
and
skilful
than
himself
,
as
the
ClJent
by
his
learned
Counsel
,
the
PatJent
by
his
skilful
PhysicJan
,
much
more
should
every
creature
give
up
his
weak
reason
,
and
shallow
understanding
to
the
infinite
wisdom
of
the
omniscient
God
.
It
's
nothing
but
our
pride
and
arrogance
over-valuing
our
own
understandings
that
makes
resignation
so
hard
.
How
few
of
our
mercies
and
comforts
have
been
foreseen
by
us
?
our
own
projects
have
come
to
nothing
,
and
that
which
we
never
thought
on
,
or
contrived
hath
taken
place
;
not
our
choice
of
the
ground
,
or
skill
in
weighing
and
delivering
the
Bowl
,
but
some
unforeseen
Providence
,
like
a
rub
in
the
Green
was
that
which
made
the
cast
.
Second
Help
.
Deeply
consider
the
sinfulness
and
vanity
of
torturing
your
own
thoughts
about
the
issues
of
doubtful
Providences
.
(
1.
)
There
is
much
sin
in
so
doing
:
for
,
all
our
anxious
and
solicitous
emotions
,
what
are
they
other
than
the
immediate
issues
and
fruits
of
pride
and
unbelief
?
There
is
not
a
greater
discovery
of
pride
in
the
world
,
than
in
the
contests
of
our
wills
with
the
Will
of
God
.
It
's
a
presumptuous
invading
of
Gods
Prerogative
,
to
dictate
to
his
Providence
,
and
prescribe
to
his
Wisdom
.
(
2.
)
There
is
a
great
deal
of
vanity
in
it
:
all
the
thoughtfulness
in
the
world
will
not
make
one
hair
white
or
black
:
all
our
discontents
will
not
prevail
with
God
to
call
back
(
or
as
the
word
may
be
rendered
)
make
void
his
Word
,
Isa.
31.
2.
he
is
in
one
mind
,
Job
23.
13.
the
thoughts
of
his
mind
are
from
everlasting
,
Psal.
33.
11.
Third
Help
.
Set
before
you
those
ch●ice
Scripture
patterns
of
s●bmission
to
the
Lords
Will
in
as
deep
,
yea
,
much
deeper
points
of
self-denyal
than
this
before
you
,
and
shame
your selves
out
of
this
quarrelling
temper
with
Providence
.
You
know
what
a
close
tryal
that
Providence
was
to
Abraham
,
that
called
him
from
his
native
Countrey
and
Fathers
house
,
to
go
he
knew
not
whither
;
and
yet
it
's
said
in
Isa.
41.
2.
he
came
to
Gods
foot
,
as
readily
obeying
his
call
,
as
a
servant
when
his
Master
knocks
for
him
with
his
foot
.
Paul's
voyage
to
Jerusalem
,
had
a
dismal
aspect
upon
himself
,
he
could
expect
nothing
but
bonds
and
prisons
,
as
he
tells
us
,
Acts
20.
23.
and
a
great
tryal
it
was
to
the
Saints
,
who
could
not
tell
how
to
give
up
such
a
Minister
,
yet
he
resigns
up
his
will
to
Gods
,
Acts
20.
22.
and
so
do
they
,
Acts
21.
14.
The
Will
of
the
Lord
be
done
.
But
far
beyond
these
,
and
all
other
patterns
,
what
an
example
hath
our
dear
Lord
Jesus
set
before
us
in
the
deepest
point
of
self-denyal
that
ever
was
in
the
world
.
When
the
Father
gave
the
Cup
of
sufferings
into
his
hands
in
the
garden
,
Mark
14.
36.
a
cup
of
wrath
,
the
wrath
of
the
great
and
terrible
God
,
and
that
without
mixture
:
the
very
taste
whereof
,
put
Nature
into
an
Agony
and
astonishment
,
a
sore
amazement
,
a
bloody
sweat
;
and
forced
from
him
that
vehement
and
sad
cry
,
Father
,
if
it
be
possible
,
let
this
cup
pass
;
yet
still
with
submission
,
nevertheless
not
my
will
,
but
thine
be
done
.
O
blessed
pattern
of
obedience
,
and
resignation
to
the
pleasure
of
God!
What
is
your
case
to
this
?
Fourth
Help
.
Study
the
singular
benefits
and
advantages
of
a
Will
resigned
up
,
and
melted
into
the
Will
of
God
.
(
1.
)
Such
a
Spirit
hath
a
continual
Sabbath
within
it self
:
the
thoughts
are
established
,
Prov.
16.
3.
and
truly
,
till
a
man
come
to
this
,
he
doth
but
too
much
resemble
the
Devil
,
who
is
a
restless
Spirit
,
seeking
rest
,
but
finding
none
.
It
was
an
excellent
expression
of
Luther
,
to
one
that
was
much
perplexed
in
his
spirit
about
the
doubtful
events
of
some
affairs
of
his
that
were
then
depending
:
Dominus
tua
omnJa
facJat
,
&
tu
nihil
facJas
,
sed
sis
Sabbatum
Christi
:
(
i.
e.
)
The
Lord
shall
do
all
for
thee
,
and
thou
shalt
do
nothing
,
but
be
the
Sabbath
of
Christ
.
It
is
by
this
means
that
the
Lord
gives
his
beloved
sleep
,
Psal.
127.
2.
he
means
not
the
sleep
of
the
body
,
but
of
the
Spirit
.
Fideles
(
saith
One
upon
that
place
)
etsi
vitam
agant
laborJosam
,
composiris
tamen
&
tranquillis
animis
in
fidei
silentJo
se
continent
,
ac
si
dormirent
:
(
i.
e.
)
Though
believers
live
in
the
midst
of
many
troubles
here
,
yet
with
quiet
and
composed
minds
they
keep
themselves
in
the
silence
of
faith
,
as
though
they
were
asleep
.
(
2.
)
Besides
,
it
fits
a
mans
spirit
for
communion
with
God
in
all
his
afflictions
,
and
this
alleviates
and
sweetens
them
beyond
any
thing
in
the
world
.
(
3.
)
And
surely
a
man
is
never
nearer
the
mercy
he
desires
,
or
the
deliverance
he
expects
,
(
as
One
truly
observes
)
than
when
his
soul
is
brought
into
a
submissive
temper
.
David
was
never
nearer
the
Kingdom
,
than
when
he
became
as
a
weaned
Child
.
Fifth
Help
.
Lastly
,
Think
how
repugnant
an
unsubmissive
temper
is
both
to
your
prayers
and
professions
.
You
pray
that
the
Will
of
God
may
be
done
on
Earth
as
it
is
in
Heaven
,
and
yet
when
it
seems
to
cross
your
wills
or
interests
,
you
struggle
and
fret
against
it
.
You
profess
to
have
committed
your
souls
to
his
keeping
,
and
to
leave
your
eternal
concerns
in
his
hands
;
and
yet
cannot
commit
things
infinitely
less
valuable
unto
him
.
How
contradictory
are
these
things
!
Your
Profession
as
Christians
,
speaks
you
to
be
led
by
the
Spirit
,
but
this
practice
speaks
you
to
follow
the
perverse
counsels
of
your
own
spirits
.
O
then
regret
no
more
,
dispute
no
more
,
but
lye
down
meekly
at
your
Fathers
feet
,
and
say
in
all
cases
and
at
all
times
,
the
Will
of
the
Lord
be
done
.
ANd
thus
I
have
through
the
Aid
of
Providence
,
performed
what
I
designed
to
speak
from
this
Scripture
.
I
acknowledge
,
my
performances
have
been
accompanied
with
much
weakness
,
yet
have
endeavoured
to
speak
of
Providence
the
things
that
are
right
.
Blessed
be
the
Lord
,
who
hath
thus
far
assisted
and
protected
me
in
this
work
.
How
Providence
will
dispose
of
my
life
,
liberty
and
labours
for
time
to
come
,
I
know
not
,
but
I
cheerfully
commit
all
to
him
,
who
hath
hitherto
performed
all
things
for
me
.
FINIS
.