THE
SEA-MANS
COMPANION
.
WHEREIN
The
Mysteries
of
Providence
Relating
to
Sea-men
,
are
opened
.
Their
Sins
and
Dangers
discovered
;
their
Duties
pressed
;
and
their
several
Troubles
and
Burdens
relieved
:
In
Six
Practical
and
Suitable
Sermons
.
VIZ
.
-
I.
The
Sea-mans
Farewel
,
from
Acts
21.
5
,
6.
-
II
.
The
Sea-man
in
a
Storm
,
from
Psal
.
107.23
,
&c.
-
III
.
The
Sea-mans
Preservative
,
from
Psal
.
139.9
.
-
IV
.
The
Successful
Sea-man
,
from
Deut.
8.17
,
18.
-
V.
The
Disappointed
Sea-man
,
from
Luk
.
5.5
.
-
VI
.
The
Seamans
Return
,
from
Deut.
33.19
.
By
John
Flavell
,
Preacher
of
the
Gospel
.
The
Lord
sitteth
upon
the
Flood
;
yea
,
the
Lord
sitteth
King
forever
,
Psal
.
29.10
.
London
;
Printed
for
Francis
Titon
at
the
Three
Daggers
in
Fleetstreet
.
1676.
IMPRIMATUR
April
20.
Guil
.
Jane
.
To
all
Masters
,
Mariners
,
and
Sea-men
,
especially
such
as
belong
to
the
Port
of
Dartmouth
,
and
the
Adjacent
Parts
.
SIRS
,
YOur
ready
acceptation
of
my
former
Labors
for
you
,
hath
incouraged
this
second
and
last
indeavor
of
mine
this
way
to
serve
you
.
I
have
for
many
years
been
convinced
of
the
great
use
and
need
you
have
of
the
following
Discourses
:
But
the
Motives
that
quickned
me
to
their
Publication
at
this
time
,
were
especially
these
two
.
First
,
The
hand
of
the
Lord
hath
gone
forth
with
terror
against
you
this
Winter
,
many
of
your
Companions
are
gone
down
to
the
bottom
.
Such
a
doleful
account
of
Shipwracks
from
every
Coast
,
and
such
sad
lamentations
as
have
been
heard
in
almost
every
Maritine
Town
,
cannot
but
deeply
affect
every
Heart
with
Sorrow
and
Compassion
,
and
hath
ingaged
me
in
this
Service
for
the
remnant
that
is
left
.
Secondly
,
The
seasonable
and
prudent
care
His
Majesty
hath
at
this
time
manifested
for
the
regulation
and
preservation
of
your
Newland
Trade
,
and
incouragement
of
your
honest
industry
therein
;
hath
also
provoked
me
to
hasten
this
design
,
for
the
regulation
of
your
lives
and
manners
,
without
which
,
all
external
means
will
signifie
but
little
to
your
true
prosperity
.
This
little
Manual
contains
the
sum
of
your
duty
in
the
several
parts
of
your
imployments
,
and
faithfully
discovers
the
Temptations
and
Dangers
attending
you
in
them
all
.
Upon
which
consideration
it
is
fitly
,
intituled
,
The
Sea-mans
Companion
.
As
God
hath
cast
my
lot
among
you
,
so
he
hath
inclined
my
heart
studiously
to
promote
your
welfare
.
I
have
been
by
long
observation
convinced
,
that
one
principal
cause
of
your
miscarriages
,
is
the
neglect
of
God
in
your
outsets
.
Did
you
pray
more
,
you
might
expect
to
prosper
better
.
Indeed
,
if
that
Epicurean
doctrine
were
true
,
That
God
concerns
not
himself
about
the
affairs
of
this
lower
World
,
but
leaves
all
things
to
be
swayed
by
the
power
of
Natural
causes
,
your
neglect
of
prayer
might
be
more
excusable
,
but
whilest
Successes
and
Disappointments
depend
upon
his
pleasure
,
it
cannot
but
be
the
most
direct
course
you
can
steer
to
ruine
all
,
to
forget
and
neglect
God
in
your
enterprises
.
To
cure
this
evil
,
and
prevent
the
manifold
mischiefs
that
follow
it
,
the
First
Sermon
is
designed
.
And
if
the
Lord
shall
bless
it
to
your
Conviction
and
Reformation
,
I
may
then
comfortably
apply
the
words
of
Moses
to
you
,
Deut.
33.18
.
Rejoyce
Zebulun
in
thy
going
out
.
You
often
hear
the
terrible
voice
of
God
in
the
Storms
;
and
are
at
your
wits
end
;
not
knowing
what
course
to
take
,
nor
which
way
to
turn
for
safety
and
comfort
:
And
yet
,
how
soon
are
all
those
Impressions
worn
off
?
And
those
Mercies
which
(
whilest
new
)
were
so
affecting
;
after
a
few
days
become
stale
and
common
?
I
have
therefore
in
the
Second
Sermon
labored
not
only
to
direct
and
support
you
in
those
straights
,
but
have
also
indeavored
to
fix
the
Sense
of
those
Providences
upon
your
Hearts
,
and
instruct
you
how
to
make
due
Improvements
of
them
,
by
answering
the
several
aims
and
designs
of
them
.
It
hath
been
much
upon
my
Heart
,
to
what
and
how
many
Temptations
to
sin
you
are
exposed
in
Foreign
Countreys
,
where
lawful
Remedies
are
absent
,
alluring
Objects
present
,
and
Temptations
exceedingly
strengthned
upon
you
,
by
hopes
of
secrecy
and
concealment
:
And
indeed
for
a
Man
whose
Heart
is
not
throughly
seasoned
with
Religion
,
and
awed
by
the
fear
of
God
,
to
converse
in
such
places
,
and
with
such
Company
,
and
not
be
polluted
with
their
sins
,
is
upon
the
matter
as
great
a
Miracle
,
as
for
the
three
Children
to
come
out
of
the
Fiery
Furnace
without
an
Hair
singed
,
or
the
smell
of
Fire
upon
their
Garments
.
I
have
therefore
prepared
for
you
the
best
preservative
from
these
Temptations
in
the
Third
Sermon
,
which
the
Lord
make
an
effectual
Antidote
to
your
Souls
,
against
the
Corruptions
that
are
in
the
World
through
Lust
.
I
have
frequently
observed
the
mischievous
influence
that
Success
and
Prosperity
have
had
upon
some
of
you
.
How
the
God
of
your
Mercies
hath
been
forgotten
,
and
his
Mercies
made
instruments
of
sin
against
him
.
How
apt
are
Men
to
ascribe
all
to
their
own
wisdom
,
care
,
and
industry
;
as
if
God
had
no
hand
in
it
.
The
Fourth
Sermon
therefore
leads
up
your
thoughts
to
the
Fountain
of
all
your
good
,
and
drops
many
very
seasonable
and
necessary
Cautions
upon
you
,
to
keep
you
humble
and
thankful
under
Prosperity
.
And
because
Men
will
not
own
God
in
their
Success
,
but
sacrifice
to
their
own
Net
:
God
often
teaches
them
the
evil
of
it
by
sad
Losses
and
Disappointments
.
Yea
,
Disappointments
sometimes
follow
the
best
of
Men
,
and
that
in
the
most
just
and
honest
imployments
,
to
caution
the
former
sort
,
and
support
the
latter
,
in
such
a
case
I
recommend
the
Fifth
Sermon
to
your
serious
consideration
,
not
doubting
,
if
the
Blessing
of
God
go
forth
with
it
,
but
it
may
prove
a
very
seasonable
and
useful
discourse
to
you
in
that
condition
.
And
lastly
,
Because
it
is
so
common
for
Sea-men
to
forget
the
many
Mercies
they
have
received
in
a
voyage
,
when
it
is
over
,
and
God
hath
brought
them
to
the
Havens
of
Desire
,
and
among
their
Relations
.
I
have
in
the
last
Sermon
instructed
them
in
their
duty
,
and
labored
to
workin
such
a
Sense
of
Mercies
upon
their
Hearts
,
as
may
ingage
them
to
a
due
and
thankful
acknowledgment
of
God
in
all
.
You
see
by
this
brief
account
,
how
honest
the
design
is
in
which
I
have
ingaged
for
you
.
But
I
am
sensible
,
that
the
management
is
very
defective
,
it
being
dispatched
in
haste
,
and
when
my
hands
were
filled
with
other
work
,
and
my
body
clogged
with
many
infirmities
.
But
such
as
it
is
,
I
heartily
devote
it
to
the
special
service
of
your
Souls
,
and
remain
Yours
,
in
all
Christian
Service
John
Flavell
.
Dartmouth
,
Jan.
21.
1675.
THE
SEA-MANS
FAREWEL
.
SERMON
I.
Acts
21.5
,
6.
And
we
kneeled
down
on
the
Shore
,
and
prayed
;
and
when
we
had
taken
our
leave
one
of
another
,
we
took
ship
,
and
they
returned
home
again
.
THis
Scripture
gives
us
an
account
of
the
manner
of
Pauls
imbarking
at
Tyre
,
in
his
voyage
for
Jerusalem
;
and
therein
an
excellent
pattern
for
all
that
go
down
into
the
Seas
,
to
do
business
in
the
great
Waters
.
It
is
true
,
his
business
in
that
voyage
,
was
not
to
get
an
Estate
,
but
to
witness
to
the
Truths
of
Jesus
Christ
,
with
the
hazard
of
his
life
.
Many
discouragements
he
met
with
in
this
voyage
,
and
not
the
least
at
Tyre
,
where
he
met
with
certain
Disciples
that
said
to
him
by
the
Spirit
,
That
he
should
not
go
to
Jerusalem
,
though
,
in
that
they
followed
their
own
spirit
;
but
he
is
not
to
be
disswaded
:
Like
that
noble
Roman
,
Necesse
est
ut
eam
,
non
ut
vivam
.
Caesar
.
and
upon
a
more
noble
account
,
he
judged
it
necessary
to
go
,
but
not
to
live
.
The
Disciples
seeing
his
unalterable
resolution
,
express
their
affections
to
him
at
parting
,
by
bringing
him
to
the
Ship
,
and
that
with
their
whole
Families
,
Wives
,
and
Children
,
Vers
.
5.
therein
giving
him
the
last
mark
of
their
dear
respects
.
In
this
farewel
,
their
Christian
Affections
are
mutually
manifested
by
two
sorts
of
actions
,
Viz
.
-
Sacred
-
and
Civil
in
-
Prayers
-
and
Salutations
.
1.
Prayers
;
the
best
office
one
Christian
can
do
for
another
.
As
Prayer
is
the
best
Preface
,
so
certainly
it
is
the
best
close
to
any
business
or
injoyment
.
In
which
Prayer
we
may
note
the
place
,
posture
,
and
matter
or
scope
.
First
,
The
place
,
it
was
upon
the
Shore
,
the
parting
place
near
to
which
the
Ship
rode
,
waiting
for
Paul
:
And
this
was
no
unusual
thing
among
them
in
those
days
.
Per
omne
littus
preces
ad
coelum
mittunt
.
Tertul
.
de
Jejun
.
Tertullian
tells
us
,
They
sent
their
Prayers
to
Heaven
from
every
Shore
,
and
elswhere
he
calls
them
Orationes
littorales
.
Shore-Prayers
.
So
customary
it
was
for
holy
Men
in
those
days
,
to
be
taken
into
the
Ship
or
Boat
from
their
knees
,
not
from
the
Tavern
or
Ale-house
.
Secondly
,
The
posture
,
they
kneeled
down
.
As
all
places
,
so
all
postures
have
been
used
in
Prayer
.
Some
have
used
one
posture
,
and
some
another
;
but
this
is
the
common
and
ordinary
posture
,
Knees
when
they
can
(
as
an
ingenious
Author
speaks
)
then
they
must
be
bowed
.
Thirdly
,
The
matter
and
scope
of
the
Prayer
,
which
though
it
be
not
expressed
,
yet
may
with
great
probability
be
argued
from
the
place
and
occasion
,
to
be
as
Erasmus
speaks
,
Pro
fausta
Navigatione
,
for
a
prosperous
voyage
,
and
Divine
protection
.
He
knew
to
what
,
and
how
many
hazards
of
life
they
are
hourly
exposed
,
that
border
so
near
unto
death
,
as
Mariners
and
Passengers
at
Sea
do
;
and
therefore
would
not
commit
himself
to
the
Sea
,
till
first
he
had
solemnly
committed
himself
to
God
,
whose
voice
the
Winds
and
Seas
obey
.
Nor
was
he
willing
to
take
his
leave
of
his
dear
Friends
,
until
he
had
poured
out
his
heart
to
God
with
them
,
and
for
them
,
whose
faces
he
might
never
see
again
in
this
World
,
and
ingaged
their
Prayers
also
for
him
.
2.
As
their
Affections
were
mutually
manifested
by
this
Sacred
action
,
Prayer
;
so
by
Civil
ones
too
,
affectionate
imbraces
and
Salutations
.
When
we
had
taken
our
leave
one
of
another
.
Salutations
were
used
among
the
Jews
,
both
at
their
meeting
and
parting
.
This
latter
consisted
in
words
and
gestures
;
the
usual
words
were
,
The
Lord
bless
you
,
Ruth
2.
4.
Peace
be
unto
thee
.
Grace
be
with
you
,
&c.
The
gestures
were
kissing
each
other
.
These
were
kisses
which
a
Cato
might
give
,
and
a
Vestal
receive
.
In
both
these
,
viz.
Their
Prayers
for
,
and
Salutations
of
each
other
,
they
manifested
their
Christian
Affections
mutually
,
but
especially
by
their
Prayers
at
parting
.
Hence
note
.
Doctr
.
Those
that
undertake
Voyages
by
Sea
,
had
need
not
only
to
pray
earnestly
themselves
;
but
also
to
ingage
the
Prayers
of
other
Christians
for
them
.
They
that
part
praying
,
may
hope
to
meet
again
rejoycing
;
and
those
designs
which
are
not
prefaced
with
Prayer
,
cannot
wind
up
with
a
Blessing
.
There
are
two
sorts
of
Prayer
,
stated
and
occasional
.
Stated
Prayer
is
our
conversing
with
God
,
either
publickly
,
privately
,
or
secretly
,
at
the
constant
seasons
allotted
for
it
,
in
the
returns
of
every
week
and
day
.
Occasional
,
is
the
Christians
address
to
God
at
any
time
,
upon
extraordinary
emergencies
,
and
calls
of
Providence
;
or
,
when
we
undertake
any
solemn
busisiness
(
and
what
more
solemn
then
this
?
)
and
then
the
chief
matter
and
scope
of
Prayer
is
to
be
suited
to
the
present
occasion
,
and
design
in
hand
;
of
this
sort
is
that
I
am
here
to
speak
.
Now
in
opening
the
Point
,
I
will
shew
(
1.
)
What
those
special
Mercies
are
that
Sea-man
should
pray
for
,
when
they
are
to
undertake
a
voyage
.
(
2.
)
What
influence
Prayer
hath
upon
those
Mercies
,
and
how
it
must
be
qualified
for
that
end
.
(
3.
)
What
aid
and
assistance
the
Prayers
of
other
Christians
may
contribute
to
the
procurement
of
them
.
And
then
make
Application
of
all
.
(
1.
)
We
will
inform
the
Sea-man
,
what
those
special
Mercies
are
,
he
should
earnestly
pray
for
,
when
he
undertakes
a
voyage
.
And
amongst
those
Mercies
to
be
earnestly
requested
of
God
by
him
;
the
first
and
principal
is
,
The
pardon
of
sin
.
A
Mercy
which
must
make
a
part
of
every
Prayer
;
and
at
this
time
to
be
earnestly
sued
for
.
Guilt
is
that
Jonah
in
the
Ship
for
whose
sake
storms
,
shipwracks
,
and
ruine
pursue
it
.
It
is
said
Psal
.
148.8
.
That
the
stormy
winds
fulfil
Gods
word
.
If
the
word
there
spoken
of
,
be
the
word
of
Gods
threatning
against
sin
,
as
some
expound
it
,
then
the
stormy
Winds
,
and
lofty
Waves
,
are
Gods
Sergeants
sent
out
with
commission
to
arrest
Sinners
upon
the
Sea
,
his
Water-Bailiffs
to
execute
the
Threatnings
of
God
upon
them
in
the
great
Deeps
.
Hence
those
expressions
of
Scripture
.
Numb
.
32.23
.
Be
sure
your
sin
will
find
you
out
;
and
Gen.
4.7
.
Sin
lieth
at
the
door
.
In
both
which
places
,
the
Spirit
of
God
compares
a
Mans
guilt
to
a
Blood-hound
,
that
pursues
and
follows
upon
the
scent
where-ever
a
Man
goes
.
And
indeed
our
sins
are
called
debts
,
Matth
.
6.12
.
Not
that
we
ow
them
to
God
,
or
ought
to
sin
against
him
;
but
metonymically
,
because
as
pecuniary
debts
oblige
him
to
suffer
,
that
hath
not
wherewith
to
pay
,
and
expose
him
to
the
danger
of
Serjeants
and
Bailiffs
whereever
he
shall
be
found
;
so
do
our
sins
in
reference
to
God
,
who
hath
reckoned
with
many
thousands
of
Sinners
upon
the
Sea
,
there
arrested
them
by
his
Winds
and
Waves
which
he
sent
out
after
them
,
and
laid
their
Bodies
in
the
bottom
of
the
Sea
,
and
their
Souls
in
the
bottom
of
Hell
.
O
,
that
is
a
dismal
Storm
that
is
sent
after
a
Man
,
to
drive
Soul
and
Body
to
destruction
!
With
what
heart
or
courage
can
that
Man
go
down
into
the
Deeps
,
and
expose
himself
among
the
raging
Waves
,
and
roaring
Winds
,
that
knows
God
hath
a
controversie
with
him
;
and
for
ought
h●…
knows
,
the
next
Storm
may
be
sent
to
hurry
him
to
the
Judgment
Seat
of
th●…
great
and
terrible
God
?
Certainly
Friends
,
it
is
your
great
concern
to
get
〈…〉
Pardon
,
and
be
at
peace
with
God
;
〈…〉
thing
so
indispensable
,
that
you
canno●…
have
less
;
and
so
comprehensive
,
tha●…
you
cannot
desire
more
.
If
sin
be
pardoned
you
are
safe
,
you
need
fear
no
Storms
within
,
whatever
you
find
without
:
But
wo
to
him
that
finds
at
once
a
raging
Sea
,
and
a
roaring
Conscience
;
trouble
without
,
and
terror
within
;
Ship
and
Hope
sinking
together
.
You
are
privy
to
all
the
evils
and
wickedness
of
your
hearts
and
lives
.
You
know
what
treasures
of
guilt
you
have
been
heaping
up
all
your
days
;
and
think
you
when
distresses
and
extremities
come
upon
you
,
Conscience
will
be
as
quiet
and
still
,
as
it
is
now
?
No
,
no
,
guilt
will
flie
in
your
faces
then
,
and
stop
your
mouths
.
O
therefore
humble
your selves
at
the
feet
of
God
for
all
your
iniquities
;
apply
your selves
to
the
Blood
of
Sprinkling
;
pray
,
and
plead
with
God
for
remission
of
sin
:
Without
which
you
are
in
a
wo●…
ul
case
to
adventure
your selves
at
Sea
,
●…
o
those
eminent
perils
of
life
.
(
2.
)
Another
Mercy
you
are
earnestly
●…
o
pray
for
,
is
,
That
the
presence
of
God
may
go
with
you
,
I
mean
not
his
general
●…
resence
which
fills
the
World
:
That
will
be
with
you
,
whether
you
pray
for
it
,
or
no
:
But
his
gracious
special
presence
,
which
was
that
Moses
so
earnestly
sued
for
in
Exod
.
33.15
.
If
thy
presence
go
not
with
me
,
carry
us
not
hence
.
He
and
the
people
were
now
in
a
wast
howling
Wilderness
,
but
bound
for
Canaan
,
that
Earthly
paradice
;
yet
you
see
,
he
chuses
rather
to
be
in
a
Wilderness
with
God
,
than
in
a
Canaan
without
him
:
And
no
wonder
,
for
this
gracious
presence
of
God
,
as
to
comfort
,
is
all
that
a
gracious
Soul
hath
,
or
desires
to
have
in
this
World
:
And
as
to
security
and
protection
from
dangers
,
it
is
the
only
Asylum
Sanctuary
and
Refuge
in
the
day
of
trouble
.
If
the
presence
of
God
be
graciously
with
us
,
it
will
guard
the
heart
against
terror
in
the
most
eminent
distress
,
Quamvis
in
summa
mortis
ipsius
pericula
incurram
.
Gloss
.
Psal
.
Sacr
.
as
you
see
Psal
.
23.4
.
Yea
,
though
I
walk
through
the
Valley
of
the
shadow
of
Death
(
that
is
,
through
th●…
most
apparent
and
eminent
dangers
o●…
death
)
yet
will
I
fear
no
evil
,
for
thou
a●…
with
me
.
And
indeed
there
is
no
roo●…
for
fear
;
for
with
whomsoever
God
i●…
in
a
gracious
and
special
manner
present●…
these
three
matchless
Mercies
are
secure●…
to
that
Man
.
First
,
That
Gods
special
providenc●…
shall
watch
over
him
in
all
dangers
.
Psa●…
91.1
&
4.
He
shall
abide
under
the
shado●…
of
the
Almighty
;
he
shall
cover
thee
wit●…
his
Feathers
,
and
under
his
Wings
shal●…
thou
trust
.
As
the
Hen
gathers
her
broo●…
under
her
Wings
,
not
only
to
cherish●…
but
to
defend
them
from
all
danger
.
S●…
God
takes
his
people
under
his
Providential
Wings
for
their
security
.
Secondly
,
He
appoints
for
them
〈…〉
guard
of
Angels
,
whose
office
is
to
watc●…
over
and
minister
to
them
in
all
thei●…
straits
.
So
we
read
Psal
.
91.11
.
He
sha●…
give
his
Angels
charge
over
thee
,
to
keep
the●…
in
all
thy
ways
.
Many
invisible
service●…
they
do
for
us
:
Luther
tells
us
the
Angel●…
have
two
offices
,
Superius
canere
,
&
inferius
vigilare
:
To
sing
above
,
and
watch
below
.
These
are
as
a
Lifeguard
to
tha●…
Man
,
with
whom
the
Lord
is
.
Thirdly
,
He
readily
hears
their
cries
●…
n
a
day
of
distress
,
and
is
with
them
to
●…
ave
and
deliver
them
.
So
Vers
.
15.
He
●…
hall
call
upon
me
,
and
I
will
answer
him
,
I
will
be
with
him
in
trouble
,
I
will
deliver
him
,
and
honor
him
.
O
,
what
a
matchless
Mercy
is
this
!
How
many
times
,
when
poor
Sea-men
have
seen
death
apparently
before
their
eyes
;
have
they
cried
Mercy
!
Mercy
!
how
ordinary
is
it
for
their
eyes
(
on
such
occasions
)
to
add
Salt-water
,
where
alass
,
there
was
too
much
before
!
But
now
to
have
God
with
you
in
such
an
hour
of
straits
,
to
hear
,
support
,
and
deliver
you
;
O
,
you
cannot
estimate
the
worth
of
such
a
Mercy
.
Pray
therefore
,
for
it
as
a
Mercy
indispensably
necessary
for
you
;
and
say
to
him
,
as
Moses
,
Lord
if
thy
presence
may
not
go
with
us
,
carry
us
not
hence
.
(
3.
)
A
third
Mercy
you
are
specially
concerned
to
beg
of
God
,
is
,
That
you
may
be
kept
from
the
temptations
to
sin
,
you
will
meet
with
,
when
you
are
abroad
in
the
World
.
The
whole
World
lies
in
wickedness
,
1
Joh
.
5.19
.
Every
place
,
every
imployment
,
every
company
hath
its
snares
and
temptati●ns
attending
it
.
And
you
know
you
have
corrupt
nature
,
as
much
disposed
to
close
with
temptations
,
as
Tinder
is
to
catch
Fire
:
So
that
unless
the
preventing
,
restraining
,
and
mortifying
Grace
of
God
be
with
you
,
they
will
but
touch
and
take
.
If
there
were
no
Devil
to
tempt
you
externally
;
yet
such
a
corrupt
heart
meeting
with
a
suitable
temptation
and
occasion
,
is
enough
to
overcome
you
.
Jam
.
1.14
.
Every
man
is
tempted
,
when
he
is
drawn
away
of
his
own
lusts
and
inticed
.
Alass
,
you
know
not
what
hearts
you
have
till
temptations
prove
them
;
and
what
comfort
can
you
take
in
the
success
and
prosperity
of
your
affairs
,
be
it
never
so
great
,
if
you
return
with
Consciences
polluted
and
wounded
with
sin
?
He
that
brings
home
a
pack
of
fine
cloaths
,
infected
with
the
plague
,
hath
no
such
great
bargain
of
it
,
how
cheap
soever
he
purchased
them
.
O
therefore
beg
earnestly
of
God
,
you
may
be
kept
from
sin
,
pray
that
you
be
not
led
into
temptation
.
(
4.
)
Pray
for
Divine
Protection
in
all
the
dangers
and
hazards
to
which
you
shall
be
exposed
.
You
know
not
how
soon
your
life
and
estate
shall
be
in
jeopardy
.
This
night
you
may
sleep
quietly
in
your
Cabbin
,
to
morrow
you
may
be
tugging
at
the
Pump
,
and
the
next
night
take
up
your
lodging
upon
a
cold
Rock
.
How
smartly
doth
the
Apostle
James
reprehend
the
security
of
Trading
Persons
.
Jam
.
4.13
,
14.
Go
to
now
ye
that
say
,
to
day
or
to
morrow
we
will
go
to
such
a
City
,
and
continue
there
a
year
,
and
buy
,
and
sell
,
and
get
gain
;
whereas
you
know
not
what
shall
be
on
the
morrow
.
For
what
is
your
life
?
It
is
even
a
vapor
,
that
appears
for
a
little
time
,
and
then
vanisheth
away
.
How
easily
can
God
dash
all
your
designs
,
and
hopeful
projects
in
one
hour
!
You
know
you
are
every
moment
as
near
death
,
as
you
are
near
the
Water
,
which
is
but
a
remove
of
one
or
two
inches
.
How
poor
a
defence
is
the
strongest
Ship
against
the
lofty
Seas
,
and
lurking
Rocks
!
How
innumerable
are
the
accidents
and
contingencies
in
a
voyage
,
which
the
most
skilful
Navigator
cannot
foresee
or
prevent
!
Rector
in
incerto
est
,
nec
quid
fugiatve
,
petatve
Invenit
:
Ambiguis
ars
stupet
ipsa
malis
.
Ovid
.
They
are
as
the
Psalmist
speaks
at
their
wits
end
,
Psal
.
107.26
.
But
,
O
how
secure
and
safe
,
amidst
all
dangers
,
is
that
Man
whom
the
Lord
takes
into
his
special
protection
?
And
he
will
not
shut
out
those
that
sincerely
commit
themselves
to
him
:
The
Winds
and
Seas
obey
his
voice
;
he
can
with
a
word
turn
the
Storm
into
a
Calm
,
Psal
.
107.29
.
Or
order
means
for
your
preservation
,
when
you
seem
lost
to
the
eye
of
Sense
and
Reason
.
I
have
read
of
a
young
Man
,
that
being
in
a
great
Storm
at
Sea
,
was
observed
to
be
very
chearful
,
when
all
the
rest
were
as
dead
men
:
And
being
asked
the
reason
of
his
chearfulness
,
in
a
case
of
so
much
danger
;
he
replied
,
Truly
I
have
no
cause
to
fear
;
for
the
Pilot
of
the
Ship
is
my
Father
.
O
,
it
is
an
unspeakable
comfort
when
a
Man
hath
committed
himself
into
the
hands
of
God
,
as
a
Father
,
and
trusted
him
over
all
.
(
5.
)
Pray
for
Counsel
and
Direction
in
all
your
affairs
,
and
undertakements
,
and
lean
not
to
your
own
understandings
.
I
know
,
O
Lord
,
(
saith
the
Prophet
)
that
the
way
of
man
is
not
in
himself
;
neither
is
it
in
him
that
walks
to
direct
his
own
steps
.
Jer
.
10.23
.
Undertake
nothing
without
asking
Gods
leave
,
and
counsel
.
How
many
that
have
stronger
heads
,
than
you
,
have
miserably
ruined
themselves
,
and
their
designs
,
by
trusting
to
their
own
prudence
?
A
mans
heart
(
saith
Solomon
)
deviseth
his
way
;
but
the
Lord
directeth
his
steps
.
Prov.
16.9
.
We
must
still
reserve
the
power
of
Gods
Providence
(
saith
one
)
God
would
not
have
us
too
carnally
confident
.
Manton
on
Jude
.
It
is
robbery
to
use
goods
without
the
Owners
leave
.
We
forget
to
bid
our selves
good-speed
,
when
we
do
not
acknowledge
Gods
Dominion
.
This
is
but
a
piece
of
Religious
manners
.
The
Lord
can
blast
your
enterprise
,
●…
hough
managed
with
●…
ever
so
much
wisdom
●…
nd
contrivance
.
You
●…
re
not
only
to
look
to
God
as
the
Author
of
●…
he
Success
;
but
as
the
Director
and
Guider
of
the
Action
:
It
●…
s
by
his
Conduct
and
Blessing
,
that
all
●…
hings
come
to
pass
.
If
your
designs
suc●…
eed
not
,
you
are
presently
ready
to
●…
scribe
it
to
ill
fortune
,
and
say
,
you
had
●…
ad
luck
;
when
indeed
you
ruined
it
●…
our
selves
in
the
first
moulding
of
it
,
by
●…
ndertaking
of
it
without
asking
coun●…
l
of
God
.
In
all
thy
ways
acknowledge
●…
m
,
Prov.
3.5
.
(
6.
)
Pray
for
Success
upon
your
lawful
imployments
and
designs
,
and
own
it
to
be
from
the
Lord
.
You
have
an
excellent
pattern
in
Abrahams
Servant
.
Gen.
24.12
.
O
Lord
God
of
Abraham
thy
servant
,
send
me
good
speed
this
day
.
He
reverences
the
soveraignty
of
Providence
,
and
acknowledges
Success
to
be
a
flower
of
the
Imperial
Crown
of
Heaven
,
and
the
Bridle
that
God
hath
upon
the
reasonable
Creature
,
to
dispose
of
the
Success
of
Humane
affairs
.
I
look
on
that
business
or
design
in
a
fair
and
hopefu●…
way
to
prosper
,
wherein
we
have
ingaged
God
to
be
with
us
,
by
asking
his
counsel
,
and
recommending
the
Success
to
hi●…
Blessing
.
These
are
the
Mercies
you
ar●…
to
pray
for
.
Secondly
,
Next
I
will
shew
you
wha●…
influence
Prayer
hath
into
those
Mercie●…
you
are
to
pray
for
;
and
it
hath
muc●…
every
way
:
To
be
short
it
hath
a
threefold
influence
into
them
.
(
1.
)
It
is
a
proper
and
effectu●…
means
to
obtain
and
procure
them
.
Go●…
will
have
every
thing
fetched
out
b●…
Prayer
.
Ezek
.
36.37
.
I
will
yet
for
th●…
be
inquired
of
by
the
house
of
Israel
,
to
〈…〉
it
for
them
.
God
gives
not
our
Merci●…
for
our
Prayers
,
nor
will
he
give
them
without
our
Prayers
.
This
is
the
stated
method
,
in
which
our
Mercies
are
conveyed
to
us
;
and
therein
the
Wisdom
and
Goodness
of
God
are
eminently
discovered
.
His
Wisdom
in
making
us
to
see
the
Author
of
every
Mercy
in
the
way
of
receiving
it
,
and
securing
his
own
glory
in
the
dispensing
of
every
Mercy
:
His
Goodness
to
us
,
in
sweeten●…
ng
every
Mercy
this
way
to
us
,
and
●…
aising
its
value
in
our
estimation
.
Prayer
●…
oming
between
our
wants
,
and
supplies
●…
s
a
singular
means
to
raise
the
price
of
Mercies
with
us
,
and
ingage
us
to
due
●…
mprovements
of
them
.
So
that
it
is
an
●…
le
pretence
for
any
to
say
,
God
knows
●…
ur
wants
,
whether
we
pray
or
no
;
and
〈…〉
Mercies
be
decreed
for
us
,
we
shall
●…
ave
them
,
though
we
ask
them
not
:
●…
or
though
God
knows
our
wants
,
yet
●…
e
will
have
us
know
them
too
,
and
sen●…
ly
to
feel
the
need
of
Mercy
.
And
●…
ough
Prayer
be
altogether
needless
to
●…
s
Information
,
yet
it
is
very
necessary
〈…〉
testifie
our
submission
:
And
though
it
●…
rue
,
if
God
have
decreed
Mercy
for
〈…〉
we
shall
have
it
;
yet
it
is
not
true
,
●…
at
therefore
we
need
not
pray
for
it
:
For
Decrees
exclude
not
the
second
Means
,
nor
render
the
Creatures
duty
unnecessary
.
I
know
the
thoughts
,
that
I
think
,
towards
you
,
saith
the
Lord
,
thoughts
of
peace
,
and
not
of
evil
,
to
give
you
an
expected
end
;
then
shall
you
cal●…
upon
me
,
and
you
shall
go
and
pray
unt●…
me
,
and
I
will
hearken
unto
you
,
Jer
.
29
▪
11
,
12.
So
that
it
is
plain
,
Mercies
mus●…
be
expected
in
the
way
of
Prayer
,
that
being
Gods
appointed
way
,
and
stated
method
in
the
dispensing
of
them
.
(
2.
)
As
Prayer
hath
an
influence
into
the
procuring
of
our
Mercies
,
so
it
hath
a
singular
influence
into
the
sweetning
o●…
them
:
No
Mercies
so
sweet
as
those
tha●…
are
received
upon
the
knee
.
There
is
〈…〉
twofold
sweetness
Men
taste
in
thei●…
Earthly
injoyments
:
One
is
natural
,
an●…
that
those
that
never
eye
God
in
them
may
relish
as
much
as
others
;
the
othe●…
is
spiritual
,
and
supernatural
,
resultin●…
from
the
consideration
of
the
way
i●…
which
,
and
the
end
for
which
they
an●…
given
.
And
I
am
confident
,
such
is
th●…
refreshing
sweetness
of
Mercies
comin●…
in
the
way
of
Prayer
,
that
they
derive●…
thousand
times
more
sweetness
from
t●…
Channel
,
through
which
they
com●…
than
they
have
in
their
own
natures
.
So
that
it
was
rightly
observed
by
him
that
said
,
A
Believer
tastes
more
sweetness
in
the
common
Bread
he
eats
at
his
own
Table
,
than
another
can
do
in
the
Consecrated
Bread
he
eats
at
the
Lords
Table
.
And
then
(
3.
)
Prayer
hath
a
sanctifying
influence
upon
all
our
injoyments
;
and
therefore
no
wonder
it
makes
them
so
sweet
.
What
you
obtain
this
way
,
you
obtain
with
a
Blessing
,
and
that
is
the
sweetest
and
best
part
of
any
injoyment
.
So
you
find
,
1
Tim
.
4.5
.
every
Creature
is
sanctified
by
the
Word
of
God
and
Prayer
.
One
Mercy
of
this
kind
is
better
,
than
Ten
thousand
promiscuously
dispensed
in
the
way
of
common
Providence
.
By
these
no
Man
knows
love
or
hatred
;
but
these
surely
come
from
Gods
love
to
us
,
and
end
in
the
increase
of
our
love
to
him
.
So
that
you
see
Prayer
hath
a
manifold
influence
upon
our
Mercies
.
But
it
is
not
any
kind
of
Prayer
that
doth
thus
procure
,
sweeten
,
and
sanctifie
our
Mercies
to
us
.
Some
Mens
Prayers
rather
obstruct
than
farther
their
Mercies
,
Si
bonum
petant
boni
,
bene
,
ad
bonum
.
but
if
it
be
the
servent
Prayer
of
a
righteous
Man
,
directed
by
the
Rule
of
the
Word
,
to
the
Glory
of
God
;
we
may
say
of
such
Prayer
as
David
said
of
Sauls
Sword
,
and
Jonathans
Bow
,
It
never
returns
empty
.
Thirdly
,
I
shall
shew
you
what
aid
and
assistance
the
Prayers
of
others
may
give
to
the
procurement
of
the
Mercies
we
desire
:
For
you
see
this
instance
in
the
Text
,
it
was
the
united
Joynt-Prayers
of
the
Disciples
with
Paul
,
that
on
this
occasion
was
judged
necessary
.
Now
considering
Prayer
according
to
its
use
,
and
end
,
as
a
means
of
obtaining
Mercy
from
the
Lord
;
the
more
disposed
,
apt
,
and
vigorous
the
means
are
,
the
more
surely
and
easily
the
Mercies
are
obtained
which
we
pray
for
.
There
may
be
much
zeal
,
fervency
,
and
strength
in
the
Prayer
of
a
single
Saint
.
Jacob
alone
may
wrestle
with
God
,
and
as
a
Prince
prevail
;
but
much
more
in
the
joynt
united
force
of
many
Jacobs
.
Vis
unita
fortior
〈…〉
If
one
can
do
much
,
many
can
do
more●…
O
what
may
not
a
blessed
combination
o●…
holy
and
humble
Spirits
obtain
from
the
Lord
?
If
one
Mans
heart
be
dead
and
out
of
tune
,
anothers
may
be
lively
and
full
of
affection
.
Besides
,
God
delights
in
those
Acts
of
mercy
most
,
by
which
many
are
refreshed
and
comforted
;
and
where
there
is
a
common
stock
of
Prayers
goings
like
a
common
Adventure
in
one
Ship
;
there
the
return
of
Prayer
,
●…
ike
the
return
of
such
a
Ship
,
makes
many
glad
hearts
.
Certainly
it
is
of
great
●…
dvantage
for
the
people
of
God
,
to
ingage
as
many
as
they
can
to
pray
for
●…
hem
.
When
Daniel
was
to
obtain
that
●…
ecret
from
the
God
of
Heaven
,
Dan
.
1.
●…
7
,
18.
he
makes
use
of
his
three
friends
●…
o
improve
their
acquaintance
with
God
,
●…
nd
interest
in
God
for
him
upon
that
●…
ccasion
.
Then
Daniel
went
to
his
house
,
●…
nd
made
the
thing
known
to
Hananiah
,
Michael
,
and
Azariah
,
his
companions
;
●…
hat
they
would
desire
mercies
of
the
God
●…
f
Heaven
,
concerning
this
secret
.
Some
Christians
have
greater
intimacies
with
●…
od
than
others
,
they
are
special
favo●…
tes
in
the
Court
of
Heaven
;
and
what
●…
n
advantage
it
is
to
be
upon
their
hearts
,
●…
hen
they
are
with
God
,
judge
ye
.
I
re●…
ember
,
S.
Bernard
having
spoken
of
the
●…
ue
frames
and
tempers
that
Christians
●…
ould
strive
to
work
their
hearts
into
,
●…
hen
they
are
ingaged
in
this
work
of
Prayer
,
concludes
with
this
request
,
E●…
quum
talis
fueris
,
memento
mei
.
An●…
when
thy
heart
(
saith
he
)
is
in
this
temper
then
remember
me
.
O
,
it
is
a
singular
Mercy
to
be
interested
in
their
Prayers
,
that
ar●…
in
special
favor
with
God
.
It
is
true
,
Jesu●…
Christ
is
the
great
Favorite
,
for
whos●…
sake
all
Prayers
are
heard
;
and
withou●…
his
intercession
,
the
intercessions
of
a●…
Abraham
,
a
Moses
,
a
Jacob
,
signifie
nothing
;
but
in
the
virtue
of
his
intercession
,
the
intercessions
of
others
may
b●…
singularly
advantagious
to
us
.
Job●…
friends
were
good
Men
,
but
yet
the●…
must
go
to
Job
,
and
get
his
Prayers
fo●…
them
,
before
God
would
be
intreated
fo●…
them
.
Job
42.8
.
And
indeed
,
upon
the
contrary
,
it
is
〈…〉
sad
sign
,
that
God
designs
not
to
give
u●…
that
Mercy
wh
ch
he
takes
off
our
ow●…
heart
,
or
the
hearts
of
others
from
praying
for
.
When
he
saith
pray
not
for
such
a
Man
,
or
for
such
a
Mercy
for
him
;
th●…
case
then
becomes
hopeless
,
the
Mercy
is
set
,
and
there
is
no
moving
it
.
Jere
▪
14.11
.
But
if
once
a
Spirit
of
Prayer
b●…
poured
upon
you
,
and
upon
others
too●…
in
your
behalf
:
You
may
look
upon
th●…
Mercy
as
even
at
the
door
,
and
count
i●…
as
good
as
if
it
were
in
your
hand
.
And
thus
you
see
what
the
Mercies
are
you
should
pray
for
,
what
influence
Prayer
hath
upon
them
,
and
what
assistance
the
Prayers
of
other
Christians
may
contribute
to
the
obtaining
of
them
;
that
so
●…
our
hearts
may
be
excited
and
incou●…
aged
,
not
only
to
pray
for
your selves
,
out
to
ingage
as
many
as
you
can
,
to
seek
●…
he
Lord
for
you
,
as
you
see
Paul
here
●…
id
,
when
he
was
undertaking
his
dan●…
erous
voyage
.
In
the
next
place
I
shall
●…
pply
it
.
Use
1.
And
first
this
may
serve
sharply
●…
o
reprove
the
generality
of
our
Sea-men
,
●…
ho
mind
every
thing
necessary
to
their
●…
oyage
,
except
Prayer
,
the
principal
●…
hing
;
who
go
out
in
voyages
without
●…
sking
Gods
leave
or
blessing
.
And
here
●…
hree
sorts
of
persons
fall
under
convicti●…
n
,
and
just
rebuke
.
First
,
Such
as
do
but
mock
God
,
and
●…
elude
themselves
by
heartless
,
dead
,
and
●…
mpty
Formalities
.
Some
there
be
,
that
are
not
altogether
flight
and
neglect
●…
rayes
,
but
,
pro
forma
,
they
will
do
some●…
ing
themselves
,
and
it
may
be
as
a
●…
mplement
;
or
,
at
most
,
as
a
customary
●…
ing
,
will
desire
the
Prayers
of
others
:
But
alass
!
There
is
no
heartiness
or
sincerity
in
these
things
.
They
are
no
way
affected
with
the
sense
of
their
own
wants
,
sins
,
or
dangers
,
they
never
understood
the
use
,
nature
,
or
end
of
Prayer
We
blame
the
blind
Papists
,
and
tha●…
justly
,
for
their
blind
Devotions
,
who
reckon
their
Prayers
by
number
,
and
no●…
by
weight
;
and
truly
,
there
is
but
littl●…
difference
betwixt
theirs
and
some
of
our
Devotions
.
Discite
habere
in
corde
,
quod
omnis
homo
habet
in
lingua
.
Aug.
in
Psal
.
32.
It
is
S.
Augustine
counsel
,
Do
you
learn
t●…
have
in
your
hearts
who
every
one
hath
in
his
lip●…
O
that
you
would
once
learn
to
be
i●…
earnest
with
God
,
to
pray
as
Men
tha●…
understand
with
whom
you
have
to
do
and
what
great
things
you
have
to
transact
with
God!
Ah
my
Friends
,
yo●…
may
believe
it
,
that
if
ever
you
had
fel●…
the
weight
of
sin
upon
your
Consciences
and
had
had
such
sick
days
and
night
for
it
,
as
some
have
had
,
you
would
no●…
ask
a
pardon
so
coldly
and
indifferently
as
you
do
.
If
you
did
but
know
the
benefit
of
Gods
presence
with
you
in
troubles
,
how
sweet
it
is
;
or
could
but
apprehend
how
terrible
a
thing
it
is
to
b●…
left
of
God
(
as
Saul
was
)
in
a
day
of
●…
istress
;
you
would
weep
and
make
sup●…
lication
for
his
Gracious
presence
to
go
●…
orth
with
you
,
and
would
say
with
Moses
,
If
thy
presence
may
not
go
with
me
,
●…
hen
carry
me
not
hence
.
But
alass
,
these
●…
hings
appear
not
to
you
in
their
reality
●…
nd
importance
.
And
hence
is
all
that
wretched
formality
,
and
deadness
of
●…
pirit
.
Secondly
,
It
rebukes
much
more
such
●…
s
wholly
slight
and
neglect
Prayer
,
as
a
●…
seless
and
vain
thing
;
who
undertake
●…
esigns
without
Prayer
,
not
at
all
acknowledging
God
in
any
of
their
ways
.
And
it
is
justly
to
be
suspected
,
these
are
multitudes
of
such
practical
Atheists
●…
mong
Sea-men
,
as
well
as
other
orders
●…
f
Men
.
Poor
Men
!
My
heart
mourn●…
th
over
you
;
you
are
certainly
a
forlorn
●…
ort
of
men
,
who
live
without
God
in
●…
he
World
.
It
was
ancient●…
y
said
,
Qui
nescit
o●are
,
discat
Navigare
.
He
that
would
learn
●…
o
pray
,
let
him
go
to
Sea
:
But
now
how
long
may
a
Man
be
at
Sea
,
before
he
hear
a
praying
Sea-man
?
Let
your
Families
,
from
which
you
part
,
witness
what
conscience
●…
ou
have
made
to
seek
God
(
as
you
have
been
here
directed
)
before
your
out-set●…
It
is
said
,
Deut.
33.18
.
to
the
Tribe
o●…
Sea-men
,
Rejoyce
Zebulun
in
thy
going●…
out
;
but
in
this
case
we
may
invert
th●…
words
,
and
say
,
Mourn
,
O
ye
Sea-men●…
for
your
going
out
.
How
deploreable
a
cas●…
is
this
?
Let
your
Cabbins
witness
wha●…
Conscience
you
make
of
the
duty
o●…
Prayer
:
You
can
talk
and
sleep
there
but
when
did
you
pray
there
?
You
ther●…
hear
the
voice
of
God
in
the
roaring
Seas
but
when
did
God
hear
your
voice
i●…
Prayer
?
You
see
the
wonders
of
God
i●…
the
Deeps
,
wonders
of
Creation
,
an●…
wonders
of
Preservation
;
but
mean
tim●…
you
your selves
are
the
greatest
wonder
that
are
to
be
seen
in
the
Sea
.
Men
immediately
depending
upon
God
for
thei●…
lives
,
liberties
,
and
estates
,
every
moment
;
and
not
once
owning
or
acknowledging
him
by
Prayer
.
The
very
Heathen●…
will
rise
up
in
judgmen●…
against
you
,
{αβγδ}
,
Cui
respondet
Socrates
,
{αβγδ}
,
Plato
in
Timeo
.
and
condemn
you
.
I
remembe●…
Plato
brings
in
Alcibiades
,
asking
Socrates
How
he
ought
to
express
his
resolutions
and
purposes
;
t●…
whom
he
thus
answereth
,
Before
every
●…
ndertakement
thou
must
say
,
If
God
will
.
And
we
know
the
Eastern
Nations
would
●…
ndertake
nothing
of
moment
,
without
●…
rst
acknowledging
God
by
Prayer
.
The
Greeks
{αβγδ}
by
the
leave
or
blessing
●…
f
God
is
known
to
all
.
The
Turks
will
●…
ondemn
such
as
you
are
,
for
they
fail
●…
ot
to
pray
five
times
a
day
,
how
urgent
●…
ever
their
business
be
.
The
blind
and
●…
uperstitious
Papists
will
condemn
you
,
●…
i
th
whom
it
is
a
Proverb
,
Mass
and
●…
eat
hinder
no
man
.
O
,
whither
will
you
●…
rn
?
And
,
who
shall
comfort
you
,
when
●…
rouble
comes
upon
you
?
Wonder
not
●…
t
crosses
and
disappointments
in
your
●…
usiness
;
how
can
you
expect
it
should
●…
e
otherwise
,
as
long
as
God
is
neglect●…
d
,
yea
,
disowned
?
Say
not
,
this
is
the
●…
ruit
of
ill-luck
,
but
of
your
prophane
●…
eglects
.
If
the
Success
of
all
your
busi●…
ess
depends
upon
God
,
(
as
none
but
●…
theists
dare
deny
)
then
certainly
the
●…
irectest
and
readiest
course
a
man
can
●…
ake
to
destroy
all
,
is
to
disingage
God
●…
y
a
sinful
neglect
of
him
.
The
most
●…
ompendious
way
to
ruine
is
to
forget
God
,
and
cast
of
Prayer
.
Pour
out
thy
●…
ury
(
saith
the
Prophet
)
upon
the
Heathen
that
know
thee
not
,
and
upon
the
Families
that
call
not
upon
thy
name
.
Jere
.
10.25
.
Will
nothing
less
then
extremity
make
you
cry
to
God
?
Wonder
not
then
,
if
God
bring
you
into
that
extremity
,
which
your
prophaneness
makes
necessary
for
your
awakening
.
Thirdly
and
lastly
,
How
much
sadder●…
and
more
deplorable
is
the
case
of
those
that
not
only
neglect
to
call
upon
the
Name
of
God
by
Prayer
,
but
do
also
wound
his
Name
through
and
through
by
their
cursed
Oaths
and
Blasphemies
▪
who
instead
of
going
on
board
praying
as
Paul
here
did
,
go
on
board
cursing
swearing
,
and
blaspheming
his
great
and
dreadful
Name
;
not
going
from
their
bended
knees
,
but
drunken
Ale-benches
to
the
Ship
.
O
the
admirable
patience
of
God!
O
the
power
of
his
long-suffering
!
That
ever
that
Ship
should
swim
one
hour
above
Water
,
that
carries
such
loads
of
sin
and
guilt
within
it
.
It
is
noted
in
Gen.
4.26
.
in
the
days
of
Seth
,
That
then
men
began
to
call
upon
the
Name
of
the
Lord
.
Some
translate
the
word
Invocation
,
{αβγδ}
or
Prayer
,
and
some
prophanation
;
then
began
prophaness
in
calling
upon
the
Name
of
the
Lord
.
In
a
mournful
feeling
of
this
dishonor
done
to
God
by
it
,
Seth
calls
the
son
that
was
born
to
him
●…
n
those
times
,
Enosh
,
or
Sorrowful
.
Sure
I
am
,
however
the
word
be
here
to
be
●…
ranslated
,
there
is
a
vile
generation
in
our
days
,
that
instead
of
calling
upon
●…
he
Name
of
the
Lord
by
Prayer
,
do
call
●…
pon
it
prophanely
,
rending
and
tearing
●…
hat
great
and
terrible
Name
with
the
●…
anguage
of
Hell
.
Poor
Man
!
With
what
hope
or
incouragement
can
tho●e
●…
ips
of
thine
,
in
the
day
of
thy
extremity
,
●…
ry
,
Mercy
!
Mercy
!
that
have
struck
●…
hrough
the
sacred
Name
of
God
so
many
times
with
Blasphemy
?
O
that
●…
ou
would
lay
it
to
heart
:
O
that
this
●…
ay
God
would
set
your
sins
in
order
be●…
ore
you
.
Is
this
a
beginning
that
promises
a
●…
omfortable
issue
?
Do
you
thus
prepare
●…
our
selves
to
meet
death
,
and
danger
?
O
my
Soul
,
come
not
thou
into
their
●…
ecrets
.
O
let
God
rather
strike
me
per●…
ectly
dea●
whilest
I
live
,
than
afflict
my
Soul
through
my
ears
with
these
dread●…
ul
Dialects
of
the
damned
.
Use
2.
In
the
next
place
this
point
i●…
exceeding
useful
by
way
of
Exhortation
to
perswade
all
men
,
and
particularl●…
Sea-men
to
be
men
of
Prayer
;
to
imitate
that
noble
pattern
in
the
Text
,
an●…
no
longer
to
live
in
the
neglect
of
a
dut●…
so
necessary
,
so
sweet
,
and
so
beneficia●…
to
them
,
as
the
duty
of
Prayer
is
.
O●…
that
you
did
but
know
the
excellency
o●…
this
duty
!
How
would
you
give
you●…
selves
unto
Prayer
!
As
David
speaks
Psal
.
109.4
.
Now
to
perswade
you
to
b●…
praying
men
,
and
no
longer
to
live
in
the
neglect
of
so
excellent
a
duty
,
I
wil●…
offer
these
Motives
to
your
consideration
.
Motive
1.
God
hath
stiled
himself
a
God
hearing
Prayer
.
For
your
incouragement
to
this
duty
,
he
hath
assumed
this
title
to
h
mself
,
Psal
.
65.2
.
O
thou
that
hearest
Prayer
,
unto
thee
shall
all
flesh
come
.
You
cry
not
as
the
Heathens
do
,
to
stocks
and
stones
,
that
cannot
help
or
hear
them
that
seek
to
them
,
but
to
the
living
and
true
God
;
by
whom
never
did
any
upright
Soul
loose
a
Prayer
.
And
to
come
home
to
your
case
more
fully
,
he
is
a
God
that
hears
the
Prayers
of
poor
distressed
men
upon
the
Seas
,
when
all
hope
and
humane
help
hath
utterly
failed
●…
hem
.
So
you
read
in
Psal
.
107.23
,
24
,
●…
5
,
26
,
27
,
28.
They
that
go
down
into
●…
he
Sea
in
Ships
,
that
do
business
in
great
Waters
;
these
see
the
works
of
the
Lord
,
●…
nd
his
wonders
in
the
Deep
:
For
he
commandeth
,
and
raiseth
the
stormy
Wind
which
lifteth
up
the
Waves
thereof
.
They
mount
up
to
Heaven
,
they
go
down
again
to
●…
he
depths
;
their
Soul
is
melted
,
because
●…
f
trouble
.
They
reel
to
and
fro
and
stagger
●…
ike
a
drunken
man
,
and
are
at
their
wits
●…
nd
.
Then
they
cry
unto
the
Lord
in
their
●…
rouble
,
and
he
bringeth
them
out
of
their
●…
listress
.
So
that
what
the
Psalmist
elswhere
speaks
of
the
mystical
depths
of
●…
rouble
,
is
true
here
,
even
in
a
proper
●…
itteral
sense
.
Out
of
the
depths
have
I
●…
ryed
unto
thee
,
O
Lord
,
hear
my
voice
.
Psal
.
130.1
,
2.
Many
a
Prayer
hath
been
heard
,
and
miraculously
answered
upon
●…
he
Sea
.
There
have
men
been
convinced
●…
nd
fully
satisfied
,
that
it
is
not
in
vain
●…
o
cry
to
the
Lord
.
So
evident
and
clear
●…
ave
been
the
appearances
of
God
at
the
●…
ry
of
poor
distressed
Creatures
,
that
●…
hey
have
sensibly
and
thankfully
ac●…
nowledged
him
according
to
his
name
,
●…
he
hope
of
the
ends
of
the
Earth
,
and
the
confidence
of
them
that
are
afar
off
upon
the
Sea
,
Psal
.
65.5
.
Who
is
there
among
you
,
that
hath
not
either
heard
of
,
or
himself
been
an
example
,
and
instance
of
the
Truth
?
I
might
here
insert
many
famous
examples
to
confirm
it
,
but
the
case
is
too
plain
to
need
them
,
and
it
would
be
too
great
a
digression
.
Motive
2.
Prayer
is
certainly
the
best
relief
to
the
distressed
.
We
may
say
of
it
,
as
David
said
of
the
Sword
of
Goliah
;
give
me
that
,
for
there
is
none
like
it
.
You
that
are
Sea-men
,
know
what
the
use
of
the
Pump
is
,
when
the
Waters
leak
into
your
Ship
;
and
of
what
use
the
Scupper-holes
are
to
you
,
when
Waves
break
and
wash
over
your
Decks
:
Why
,
of
the
same
use
is
Prayer
,
when
sorrow
leaks
into
your
hearts
,
and
distresses
are
ready
to
overwhelm
your
Souls
.
This
gives
a
vent
to
that
which
else
would
quickly
sink
you
.
Your
heart
shall
live
th●●
seek
the
Lord
.
Psal
.
69.32
.
Prayer
will
buoy
up
your
fainting
spirits
;
it
will
sensibly
ease
an
oppressed
heart
.
No
fear
of
fainting
,
while
a
man
continues
praying
.
Luther
was
wont
to
call
Prayers
the
Leaches
of
his
cares
and
troubles
.
O
but
if
troubles
come
in
upon
a
man
every
way
,
and
he
have
no
vent
,
no
outlet
for
them
;
when
the
ordinary
vents
of
Reason
,
Courage
,
and
Resolution
,
are
all
choaked
(
as
sometimes
they
are
)
and
there
is
no
succor
or
relief
coming
in
from
Heaven
:
What
a
wretched
forlorn
condition
is
such
a
poor
creature
in
?
O
therefore
get
acquaintance
with
this
excellent
duty
.
Motive
3.
All
secondary
means
of
deliverance
and
comfort
,
necessarily
depend
upon
the
will
and
pleasure
of
God
,
and
signifying
nothing
without
him
.
What
the
Psalmist
saith
of
an
Horse
,
I
may
say
of
a
Ship
.
Psal
.
33.17
.
That
it
is
a
vain
thing
for
safety
.
Alass
!
What
a
poor
defence
●…
s
it
against
those
giant-like
Waves
of
the
Sea
?
And
that
men
(
especially
Sea-men
)
may
be
convinced
of
this
,
God
hath
many
times
caused
those
stately
and
strong
built
Ships
to
perish
,
and
be
dashed
all
to
pieces
,
and
preserved
those
that
were
not
safe
in
them
,
upon
a
Plank
or
broken
piece
of
the
Ship
,
Acts
27.44
.
which
hath
carried
them
more
safely
to
the
shore
,
than
it
could
do
.
And
will
you
not
yet
see
that
means
signifie
nothing
without
God
,
and
that
your
dependence
●…
pon
him
,
is
necessary
in
every
condition
,
and
the
acknowledgment
thereof
so
too
?
I
am
perswaded
there
would
not
be
half
so
many
Shipwracks
,
and
disappointments
as
there
are
,
if
your
carnal
confidence
in
the
means
were
less
,
and
your
reliance
upon
the
Lord
more
.
Therefore
it
is
,
you
so
often
receive
the
sentence
of
death
in
your selves
,
that
you
may
learn
not
to
trust
in
your selves
,
but
in
God
.
O
were
but
your
Sails
filled
by
Prayer
,
how
prosperous
would
your
designs
be
?
Motive
4.
What
ever
deliverances
from
dangers
,
or
success
in
business
,
you
receive
out
of
the
way
of
Prayer
,
can
yield
you
but
little
comfort
;
for
they
are
not
sanctified
to
you
.
You
may
be
delivered
,
though
you
pray
not
;
and
Success
may
follow
those
that
seek
not
God
for
it
;
but
that
which
you
call
Deliverance
,
is
rather
a
reservation
to
future
misery
;
and
that
you
call
Success
,
is
but
a
snare
to
your
Souls
.
You
have
the
things
,
but
not
the
comfort
and
blessing
of
them
.
God
may
give
your
desire
to
your
ruine
:
Your
lives
may
be
rescued
for
a
time
from
death
,
that
you
may
fill
up
the
measure
of
your
iniquities
.
Your
affairs
may
prosper
,
and
that
prosperity
may
destroy
you
.
Prov.
1.32
.
At
best
it
is
but
an
effect
of
common
Providence
,
and
of
such
Deliverances
you
can
never
say
as
Hezekiah
said
of
his
;
and
every
one
that
receives
the
like
Mercy
in
the
way
of
Prayer
,
may
say
of
his
.
Isai
.
38.17
.
But
thou
hast
in
love
to
my
soul
,
delivered
it
from
the
pit
of
corruption
;
for
thou
hast
cast
all
my
sins
behind
thy
back
.
I
deny
not
,
but
a
Deliverance
by
the
Hand
of
common
Providence
,
is
a
Mercy
in
it self
;
and
it
may
prove
a
very
great
Mercy
to
you
in
the
event
,
if
time
thereby
added
to
your
life
be
a
space
of
Repentance
;
else
it
is
but
a
short
reprieval
of
your
damnation
,
and
leaves
you
to
perish
under
greater
guilt
,
then
was
upon
you
before
.
But
on
the
contrary
,
how
sweet
are
those
Mercies
,
that
come
in
the
way
of
Prayer
,
that
discover
Gods
love
to
you
,
and
inflame
yours
to
him
?
One
such
Mercy
is
worth
a
thousand
of
the
former
.
Motive
5.
Consider
all
you
that
go
out
without
Prayer
,
how
soon
you
may
be
out
of
a
capacity
of
Prayer
.
Now
you
will
not
,
and
shortly
you
may
not
,
have
one
opportunity
to
pray
for
evermore
:
Now
unbelief
shuts
your
Mouths
,
and
shortly
death
may
do
it
.
How
soon
may
you
be
past
Prayers
,
both
your
own
and
others
;
and
be
fixed
by
death
in
your
unalterable
condition
?
O
seek
the
Lord
therefore
,
whilest
he
may
be
found
,
call
upon
him
whilest
he
is
yet
near
.
Now
is
your
praying
season
;
hereafter
there
will
be
no
use
of
Prayer
.
For
this
(
saith
the
Psalmist
)
shall
every
one
that
is
godly
pray
unto
thee
,
in
a
time
when
thou
mayest
be
found
:
Surely
in
the
Floods
of
great
Waters
they
shall
not
come
nigh
unto
him
.
Psal
.
32.6
.
(
i.e.
)
Saith
Deodate
upon
the
place
,
in
the
time
of
the
general
destruction
of
sinners
,
as
it
was
in
the
Deluge
;
then
there
is
no
coming
nigh
to
God
by
Prayer
,
nor
canst
thou
come
nigh
him
in
the
day
of
thy
particular
destruction
,
by
the
Floods
of
great
Waters
.
O
therefore
live
not
a
day
longe●…
in
the
prophane
and
sinful
neglect
of
thi●…
great
duty
of
Prayer
.
Object
.
Why
,
but
I
observe
those
tha●…
pray
not
,
generally
escape
as
well
as
they
tha●…
do
.
Answ
.
This
Objection
was
once
mad●…
by
a
Soldier
in
the
time
of
fight
,
whe●…
he
was
pressed
by
his
companion
to
pray
and
God
quickly
stopt
his
Blaspheming
mouth
with
a
mortal
bullet
.
Have
a
car●…
of
such
bold
Atheistical
pleas
;
the●…
greatly
provoke
the
Lord
against
you
:
I
had
rather
die
praying
,
than
live
prayer●…
ess
.
Object
.
But
to
what
purpose
is
it
for
me
to
pray
,
if
I
am
unregenerate
?
God
bears
not
such
Prayers
,
if
I
make
them
;
●…
nd
besides
,
the
Prayers
of
the
wicked
are
an
●…
bomination
to
the
Lord
.
Answ
.
Labor
therefore
to
get
into
a
●…
egenerate
state
,
and
be
not
perswaded
●…
o
rest
a
day
longer
in
so
sad
a
condition
.
However
,
in
the
mean
time
,
you
must
know
,
that
Prayer
being
a
part
of
Na●…
ural
Worship
,
all
Men
,
even
the
un●…
egenerate
,
are
obliged
to
it
by
the
Light
●…
nd
Law
of
Nature
;
otherwise
,
the
●…
eglect
of
it
could
not
be
their
sin
.
Object
.
But
many
pray
,
and
receive
●…
ot
:
I
my self
have
often
done
so
.
Answ
.
You
ask
and
receive
not
,
because
●ou
ask
amiss
.
Jam
.
4.3
.
If
we
were
disposed
to
receive
,
as
God
is
to
give
:
We
●…
hould
not
be
long
without
the
answer
of
●…
ur
Prayers
.
If
(
1.
)
your
persons
were
accepted
●…
hrough
Christ
,
your
Prayers
should
be
●…
ccepted
too
.
Gen.
4.4
.
But
you
are
in
a
●…
tate
of
Nature
,
destitute
of
the
Spirit
.
●…
oh
.
15.7
.
And
so
your
voice
is
to
God
not
the
voice
of
a
Child
,
but
a
stranger
.
(
2.
)
If
your
Prayers
were
regulate●…
by
the
Will
of
God
,
they
could
not
mis●…
of
the
desired
Success
.
1
Joh
.
5.14
.
〈…〉
we
ask
any
thing
according
to
his
Wil●…
he
heareth
us
.
(
3.
)
If
your
Prayers
had
more
fait●…
and
fervency
,
they
would
not
retur●…
empty
.
See
Jam
.
1.6
.
&
5.16
.
Wel●…
then
object
no
more
against
your
duty
but
in
the
fear
of
God
apply
your
selve
to
it
;
and
dare
not
to
go
forth
in
an●…
design
,
until
thou
hast
by
Prayer
recommended
thy self
,
and
thy
affairs
to
God
Go
alone
,
my
Friends
,
retire
from
th●…
World
;
and
say
not
,
you
cannot
spar●…
time
for
Prayer
:
Better
any
thing
els●…
were
neglected
then
this
.
Tell
the
Lord
thou
art
now
lanching
forth
into
th●…
Ocean
,
and
knowest
not
what
this
voyage
may
bring
forth
.
Possibly
thou
mayest
never
return
to
the
Land
of
thy
Nativity
any
more
;
but
however
it
shal●…
please
him
to
dispose
the
event
,
beseech
him
with
all
earnestness
,
that
thou
mayes●…
have
the
pardon
of
sin
sealed
to
thee
before
thou
go
.
O
beg
him
to
separate
guil●…
from
thy
person
,
before
thou
be
separated
from
thy
Habitation
and
Relations
;
●…
est
that
stroke
that
shall
separate
thy
●…
oul
from
thy
Body
,
should
eternally
separate
both
Soul
and
Body
from
God
.
Desire
of
the
Lord
that
his
presence
may
go
with
thee
where-ever
thou
shalt
go
.
Tell
him
,
it
is
the
Fountain
,
both
of
●…
hy
safety
and
comfort
.
Desire
him
,
if
●…
is
presence
may
not
go
with
thee
,
not
●…
o
carry
thee
thence
.
All
the
relief
thou
●…
ast
against
trouble
,
is
wrapt
up
in
that
●…
romise
of
his
,
I
will
be
with
him
in
●…
rouble
.
Tell
him
,
those
will
be
tastless
●…
omforts
,
and
succorless
troubles
,
in
●…
hich
he
is
not
.
Intreat
the
Lord
with
all
importunity
,
●…
o
keep
thee
by
his
fear
from
the
sins
and
●…
emptations
that
are
in
the
World
.
Tell
●…
im
,
thou
art
sensibly
affected
with
the
●…
anger
,
which
thy
own
corrupt
heart
●…
ill
every
where
expose
thee
to
:
Sins
in
●…
uying
and
Selling
,
into
which
thou
●…
ayest
easily
be
drawn
by
an
Earthly
co●…
etous
heart
:
Sins
in
Drinking
,
wherein
●…
hou
mayest
be
intangled
(
except
he
keep
●…
hee
)
by
evil
company
,
and
an
irregular
●…
petite
:
Sins
of
Uncleanness
,
by
which
●…
ou
mayest
be
overcome
in
the
absence
〈…〉
lawful
Remedies
and
presence
of
alluring
objects
,
except
his
fear
quench
the
temptation
,
and
break
the
snare
.
Be
earnest
also
with
the
Lord
for
his
gracious
protection
of
thee
in
all
thy
dangers
.
Tell
him
,
thou
canst
not
be
in
safety
any
where
,
but
under
the
shadow
of
his
wings
.
Tell
him
,
at
what
time
tho●…
art
afraid
,
thou
wilt
trust
in
him
;
and
beseech
him
,
that
when
thy
heart
shall
be
overwhelmed
with
fears
and
troubles
he
will
lead
thee
to
the
Rock
,
that
i●…
higher
than
thee
.
Beseech
him
also
to
give
thee
counsel
in
all
thy
streights
and
difficulties
,
that
thou
mayest
not
lean
to
thine
own
understanding
;
but
that
he
will
make
thy
way
plain
before
thee
.
And
if
it
be
his
good
pleasure
,
that
h●…
would
bless
thy
just
and
honest
enterprises
with
Success
and
Prosperity
.
Which
if
he
shall
do
,
tell
him
,
it
is
thy
desire
,
and
beg
the
assistance
of
his
Grace
,
that
thou
mayest
improve
all
thy
Mercies
to
his
praise
.
If
thus
you
set
forth
in
the
fear
of
God
,
you
may
expect
a
sweet
Success
,
and
happy
Issue
.
THE
SEA-MAN
IN
A
STORM
.
SERMON
II
.
Psal
.
107.23
,
24
,
25
,
26
,
27.
They
that
go
down
to
the
Sea
in
Ships
,
that
do
business
in
great
Waters
:
These
see
the
Works
of
the
Lord
,
and
his
Wonders
in
the
Deep
.
For
he
commandeth
,
and
raiseth
the
Stormy
Wind
which
lifteth
up
the
Waves
thereof
.
They
mount
up
to
Heaven
,
they
go
down
again
to
the
Depths
;
their
Soul
is
melted
,
because
of
trouble
.
They
reel
to
and
fro
,
and
stagger
like
a
drunken
Man
,
and
are
at
their
wits
end
.
Then
they
cry
unto
the
Lord
in
their
trouble
,
and
he
brings
them
out
of
their
distress
.
THis
Psalm
contains
an
excellent
account
of
the
mysterious
and
admirable
effects
of
Providenee
.
And
this
Paragraph
contains
that
Vein
or
Branch
of
Divine
Providence
which
respects
Sea-men
;
a
sort
of
Men
more
immediately
depending
upon
the
favor
of
Providence
than
any
Men
in
the
World
;
though
all
do
necessarily
,
and
continually
depend
upon
it
.
In
these
Verses
we
have
a
description
,
both
(
1
)
of
the
persons
,
(
2
)
of
the
danger
,
(
3
)
of
the
deliverance
;
by
the
wonderful
working
of
Divine
Providence
for
them
.
First
,
A
description
of
the
persons
about
whom
this
wonderful
Providence
is
exercised
.
They
that
go
down
to
the
Sea
in
Ships
;
that
do
business
in
great
Waters
;
the
Periphrasis
of
a
Sea-man
.
These
are
said
to
go
down
to
the
Sea
in
Ships
;
not
because
the
Sea
is
lower
than
the
Land
,
but
because
it
is
lower
than
the
Shore
,
which
is
the
Rampire
raised
by
Providence
against
its
Inundations
.
And
their
end
or
design
ingoing
down
into
the
Sea
,
is
not
pleasure
and
recreation
;
but
to
do
business
,
(
i.e.
)
to
Export
and
Import
such
Wares
and
Commodities
as
are
necessary
,
if
not
to
the
Being
,
at
least
,
to
the
welbeing
of
the
several
Kingdoms
and
Countreys
of
the
World
.
These
are
the
Men
here
spoken
of
,
who
see
(
more
than
any
)
the
Works
of
the
Lord
,
and
his
wonders
in
the
deeps
.
Works
and
Wonders
by
an
,
{αβγδ}
,
usual
Figure
,
is
as
much
as
his
wonderful
Works
;
namely
,
of
Creation
,
in
the
strange
and
monstrous
productions
of
the
Sea
,
and
of
Preservation
,
with
respect
to
themselves
,
in
the
dreadful
dangers
they
there
●…
ncounter
.
Thus
the
Person
or
Subject
●…
s
described
.
Secondly
,
The
danger
is
likewise
de●…
cribed
,
in
which
these
Seafaring-men
●…
re
sometimes
involved
:
And
indeed
the
●…
salmist
here
gives
us
a
very
rhetorical
●…
nd
elegant
description
of
their
conditi●…
n
in
the
Stormy
Sea
;
and
shews
us
how
●…
eplorable
their
state
and
condition
is
at
●…
uch
a
time
.
Where
we
are
to
note
both
●…
he
Causes
and
Effects
of
these
Tem●…
ests
.
1.
The
Causes
,
and
they
are
twofold
.
First
,
The
principal
cause
,
the
will
and
pleasure
of
God
.
He
commandeth
and
raiseth
the
Stormy
Wind
.
This
is
Gods
Prerogative
,
none
can
raise
Winds
,
but
himself
;
and
if
Devils
or
Witches
do
it
at
any
time
;
yet
it
is
still
by
his
permission
,
as
you
see
in
Job
1.12
,
19.
The
Lord
is
said
to
hold
the
Wind
in
his
Fists
.
Prov.
30.4
.
As
a
Man
holds
a
wild
fierce
Beast
in
a
Chain
,
or
by
a
Collar
:
And
when
they
blow
he
brings
them
out
of
his
treasuries
,
Psal
.
135.7
.
There
is
indeed
a
Natural
Cause
of
Winds
,
o●…
which
Philosophers
give
us
this
rationa●…
account
.
That
it
is
a
hot
,
and
dry
exhalation
raised
from
the
Earth
,
by
the
power
of
the
Heavenly
Bodies
,
which
being
repelled
or
forced
back
by
the
coldness
of
the
middle
Region
,
moves
oblickly
or
slentingly
,
and
sometimes
very
violently
through
the
Air
.
But
though
this
be
the
Natural
Cause
of
the
Wind
;
yet
this
doth
not
at
all
restrain
the
absolute
Soveraignty
of
God
over
them
.
It
is
he
that
commands
an●…
raiseth
them
,
as
the
Text
speaks
;
and
though
it
be
said
Joh
.
3.8
.
The
Win●…
blows
where
it
listeth
;
yet
that
expression
mak●s
it
not
an
arbitrary
creature
:
Bu●…
the
meaning
is
either
thus
,
It
blows
where
it
listeth
,
for
any
opposition
that
Man
can
make
to
it
,
though
it
cannot
●…
low
where
it
listeth
with
respect
to
God
.
Or
thus
,
Such
is
the
great
varia●…
leness
and
instability
of
the
Winds
,
●…
lowing
now
this
way
,
now
that
,
that
●…
t
seems
to
move
with
a
kind
of
sponta●…
eity
,
as
a
Bird
doth
in
the
Air
;
though
●…
ndeed
it
doth
but
seem
so
,
for
all
its
●…
otions
are
ordered
of
the
Lord
.
And
●…
ou
cannot
say
in
this
sense
,
as
1
Kings
〈…〉
.11
.
That
God
it
not
in
the
Wind
.
Now
when
it
pleaseth
the
Lord
to
shew
his
●…
ower
upon
the
great
Deeps
,
he
sends
●…
orth
these
Winds
out
of
his
Treasure
.
This
is
the
principal
Cause
.
Then
●…
ext
2.
We
have
the
instrumental
subordi●…
ate
and
next
Cause
of
the
Storm
;
and
●…
hat
is
,
the
Winds
lifting
up
the
Waves
of
●…
he
Ocean
.
There
is
naturally
in
the
Sea
〈…〉
continual
agitation
,
and
rolling
of
its
Waters
hither
and
thither
;
it
cannot
rest
,
●…
s
the
Prophet
speaks
;
but
when
a
vio●…
ent
Wind
blows
upon
it
,
the
Ocean
is
●…
ncensed
and
inraged
;
and
the
Winds
●…
oll
,
moving
Mountains
of
Water
be●…
ore
them
.
Then
like
Wild
Beasts
,
the
Waves
seem
to
break
loose
and
rage
,
not
only
to
be
latrantes
undas
,
as
Virgil
calls
them
,
barking
Waves
;
Undaemaris
efferatae
.
Beza
.
but
{αβγδ}
,
raging
Waves
,
as
Jude
speaks
Vers
.
13.
Fluctus
truces
.
Yea
,
roaring
Waves
,
as
our
Saviou●…
stiles
them
,
Luk
.
21.25
.
Thus
of
the
Causes
of
the
Storm
Principal
and
Subordinate
.
Next
we
have
Secondly
,
The
terrible
Effects
of
the
Tempests
,
and
that
upon
both
thei●…
Bodies
and
their
Minds
.
(
1.
)
External
upon
their
Bodies
;
i●…
tosses
them
up
and
down
in
a
dreadfu●…
manner
,
which
the
Psalmist
elegantly
expresses
in
the
Text
.
They
mount
up
t●…
Heaven
,
they
go
down
to
the
Depths
,
a
lofty
hyperbolical
expression
;
very
nea●…
unto
it
is
that
of
Virgil
.
Tollimur
in
coelum
,
curvato
gurgite
;
&
iidem
,
Subducta
,
ad
manes
imos
descendimus
unda
!
Aen
.
3.
They
seem
to
mix
with
the
very
Clouds
;
and
then
,
open
deep
Graves
for
them
in
the
bottom
Sands
.
Yea
,
it
moves
them
not
only
perpendicularly
,
lifting
them
up
,
and
casting
them
down
,
but
obliquely
and
circularly
also
.
They
reel
to
and
fro
,
and
stagger
like
a
drunken
man
,
or
as
some
translate
,
agitantur
in
gyrum
,
they
run
round
:
They
are
indeed
moved
according
to
the
unstable
motion
of
the
Waves
,
on
whose
proud
backs
they
are
mounted
.
This
is
the
External
Effect
of
the
Storm
upon
their
Bodies
.
(
2.
)
The
Internal
Effect
of
it
upon
their
Minds
,
which
is
far
more
terrible
.
For
it
is
said
here
,
Their
Soul
is
melted
because
of
trouble
,
and
they
are
at
their
wits
end
.
Both
which
expressions
do
import
a
greater
commotion
,
and
storm
in
the
Passions
of
the
Mind
,
than
that
is
in
the
Waves
of
the
Sea
.
The
stoutest
spirit
quails
and
melts
when
it
comes
to
this
;
and
the
wisest
Artist
is
at
his
wits
end
.
Thus
you
have
the
description
of
the
persons
,
and
of
their
danger
,
both
in
the
Cause
and
Effects
upon
the
Body
and
Mind
.
Next
(
3.
)
We
have
their
deliverance
by
the
wonderful
hand
of
divine
providence
,
in
Vers
.
27.
Then
they
cry
unto
the
Lord
in
their
trouble
,
and
he
brings
them
out
of
their
distress
.
Their
usual
cry
in
such
extraordinary
exigencies
is
Mercy
!
Mercy
!
Now
they
can
pray
,
that
could
not
pray
before
.
Extremity
drives
them
to
their
knees
,
not
only
with
cryes
,
but
vows
to
the
Lord
.
And
he
delivers
them
out
of
their
distress
:
Some
delivered
one
way
,
and
some
another
,
but
all
in
a
stupendious
way
,
which
cannot
but
astonish
them
that
are
so
delivered
,
and
make
them
acknowledge
the
Finger
of
God
was
in
it
.
From
all
this
we
observe
.
Doctr
.
That
the
Preservations
and
Deliverances
of
Sea-men
in
the
dreadful
Storms
and
Tempests
at
Sea
,
is
the
wonderful
Work
of
Divine
Providence
.
The
Works
of
the
Lord
are
great
,
sought
out
of
all
them
that
have
pleasure
therein
.
Psal
.
111.2
.
And
among
his
Providential
Works
none
greater
,
and
more
admirable
,
than
those
which
Seamen
daily
behold
in
their
marvellous
Protections
upon
the
Sea
.
Now
the
Glory
of
Divine
Providence
towards
Seamen
,
shines
and
displays
it self
in
three
things
.
Especially
first
,
in
making
the
Ocean
navigable
for
them
at
any
time
.
Secondly
,
In
preserving
them
from
Shipwracks
in
the
fury
and
stress
of
Weather
.
Thirdly
,
In
finding
out
ways
,
●…
nd
strangely
providing
means
of
safety
when
their
Ships
are
lost
,
and
broken
upon
the
Sea
.
1.
It
is
a
wonderful
providence
of
God
,
to
make
the
Ocean
navigable
for
Men
at
any
time
;
that
such
a
fluid
Body
as
Water
is
,
which
cannot
support
a
Stone
or
Bullet
of
an
ounce
weight
,
should
yet
●…
y
reason
of
its
own
Saltness
,
and
the
●…
nnate
property
of
Timber
,
be
able
to
●…
upport
Ships
of
such
vast
burthen
,
which
are
carried
daily
from
place
to
place
,
be●…
ng
mounted
on
the
backs
of
its
proud
Waves
.
Who
can
but
acknowledge
a
most
wise
Providence
,
in
gratifying
the
Natural
wit
and
desire
of
Man
,
which
fits
him
for
Converse
and
Traffick
with
Foreign
Nations
,
with
instruments
and
materials
so
fit
for
his
purpose
;
as
Timber
,
Iron
,
Hemp
,
Pitch
,
the
Loadstone
,
and
whatever
else
is
necessary
for
his
purpose
?
I
cannot
open
the
Wisdom
of
Gods
Providence
in
this
respect
,
to
better
advantage
than
I
find
it
done
by
the
Learned
Pen
of
Dr.
More
in
his
Antidote
against
Atheism
.
Pag
.
58.
Navigation
(
saith
he
)
being
of
so
great
consequence
to
the
delight
,
and
convenience
of
humane
life
;
and
the●…
being
both
wit
and
courage
in
Man
to
a●…
tempt
the
Seas
,
were
he
but
fitted
wi●…
right
Materials
,
and
other
advantages
r●…
quisit
;
when
we
see
there
is
so
pat
a
pr●…
vision
made
for
him
to
this
purpose
,
i●…
large
Timber
for
the
building
of
his
Shi●…
a
thick
Sea-water
to
bear
the
Ships
bur●…
then
;
in
the
Magnet
or
Loadstone
for
hi●…
Compass
;
in
the
steddy
and
parallel
Di●…
rection
of
the
Axis
of
the
Earth
for
hi●…
Cynosura
:
And
then
observing
his
natu●…
ral
wit
and
courage
to
make
use
of
them●…
and
how
that
ingenite
desire
of
knowledg●…
and
converse
,
and
of
the
improving
of
hi●…
own
parts
,
and
happiness
,
stir
him
up
t●…
so
notable
a
design
.
We
cannot
but
conclud●…
from
such
a
train
of
Causes
,
so
fitly
an●…
congruously
complying
together
,
that
it
wa●…
really
the
counsel
of
an
Universal
and
Eternal
Mind
,
that
hath
the
over-seeing
an●…
guidance
of
it
,
&c.
2.
But
(
to
come
home
to
the
case
before
us
)
that
men
should
be
preserved
at
Sea
from
immediate
ruine
in
the
dreadful
Tempests
that
befal
them
there
,
this
is
a
mysterious
,
and
admirable
Work
of
God
;
that
a
poor
Ship
should
not
be
swallowed
up
by
the
furious
Ocean
,
when
Mountains
of
Water
come
rolling
to●…
ards
it
with
an
horrid
noise
,
and
give
such
dreadful
stripes
;
when
Seas
roll
●…
er
it
,
and
so
cover
it
with
the
Waves
,
at
for
a
time
they
know
not
whether
●…
ey
sink
or
swim
;
to
see
it
emerge
out●…
such
fatal
dangers
,
keep
up
its
head
,
●…
d
mount
upon
the
backs
of
those
lofty
●…
eas
that
threaten
immediately
to
over●…
helm
it
.
O
how
great
is
the
power
●…
d
care
of
Providence
in
such
a
case
!
●…
pecially
,
if
you
consider
these
follow●…
g
particulars
,
among
many
others
,
●…
hich
threaten
ruine
on
every
side
:
And
●…
ould
but
one
of
these
many
contingen●…
es
befal
them
,
in
the
eye
of
Reason
they
●…
re
lost
Men
.
1.
Of
how
many
parts
comparted
●…
gether
,
doth
a
Ship
consist
?
These
parts
●…
deed
are
fastened
together
with
Bolts
●…
f
Iron
,
but
being
in
so
many
Planks
.
●…
hat
a
wonder
is
it
that
none
Springs
,
●…
at
no
Bolt
gives
way
,
or
Seams
open
,
●…
hilest
every
part
works
with
such
vio●…
nce
,
and
so
great
a
stress
of
Weather
●…
es
upon
it
.
Should
such
a
thing
fall
out
●…
s
it
is
a
wonder
it
should
not
)
how
●…
on
would
the
Ship
swim
within
as
well
〈…〉
without
?
2.
How
often
are
they
put
from
their
course
by
stress
of
Weather
,
and
know
not
where
they
are
;
not
being
able
for
many
days
to
take
any
observation
?
So
that
they
must
go
whither
Winds
and
Waves
will
drive
them
?
For
there
is
no
dropping
Anchors
in
the
Main
,
nor
resisting
the
course
of
the
Seas
,
to
which
they
can
make
no
more
resistance
then
〈…〉
Child
to
a
Giant
.
And
how
is
it
they
ar●…
not
dashed
upon
the
Rocks
,
or
Foundered
in
the
Sands
,
seeing
the
Winds
shap●…
their
Course
,
and
not
Art
?
But
there
is
God
that
steers
your
course
for
you
,
whe●…
you
cannot
.
3.
How
often
are
you
even
faln
upo●…
Rocks
and
Shores
,
before
you
see
them
and
are
almost
past
hope
,
before
you
be●…
gin
to
fear
?
Sometimes
almost
imbayed
and
as
much
as
ever
you
can
do
to
We●…
ther
a
Rock
,
or
Head-Land
,
which
yo●…
discerned
not
till
it
was
almost
too
late
?
I
remember
Doctor
Johnson
,
in
th●…
ingenuous
and
wonderful
Narrative
〈…〉
his
voyage
to
the
Sound
,
when
he
ha●…
survived
two
Shipwracks
,
and
was
im●…
barked
in
the
third
Ship
.
We
had
n●…
(
saith
he
)
been
above
two
or
three
hours
〈…〉
Sea
,
but
there
was
a
sad
distraction
among
●…
s
in
the
Ship
,
and
the
Marriners
crying
Mercy
!
Mercy
!
For
we
had
almost
faln
●…
oul
on
a
Rock
,
which
lay
so
cunningly
in
●…
he
Water
,
that
we
did
not
espie
it
till
we
●…
ere
upon
it
;
but
by
the
goodness
of
God
,
●…
e
sailed
close
by
it
,
and
so
escaped
it
:
●…
he
least
touch
of
it
had
been
our
ruine
.
4.
How
often
do
you
ride
at
Anchor
〈…〉
furious
Weather
near
Rocks
and
●…
hores
;
Your
lives
,
under
God
,
every
●…
oment
depending
upon
a
Cable
and
Anchor
;
if
the
one
break
,
or
the
other
●…
ome
home
,
you
are
lost
men
.
And
how
●…
onderful
is
it
they
do
not
!
What
is
a
Cable
in
a
Storm
?
But
as
the
new
Cords
●…
i
th
which
the
Philistines
bound
Samp●…
n
,
and
as
easily
would
they
be
snapt
●…
sunder
like
a
thread
of
Tow
,
were
it
●…
ot
for
the
care
of
Providence
over
you
.
These
,
and
an
hundred
other
accidents
,
●…
hich
hourly
threaten
you
,
might
and
would
send
you
down
to
the
bottom
,
●…
ut
that
the
Lord
permits
it
not
so
to
●…
e
.
3.
And
yet
more
wonderful
then
all
●…
his
,
how
often
doth
God
suffer
Ships
to
●…
ounder
and
sink
under
you
,
and
to
be
●…
ashed
to
pieces
against
the
Rocks
,
and
●…
et
preserve
you
when
the
ordinary
means
of
preservation
are
cut
off
an●…
gone
?
Who
like
these
see
the
Works
〈…〉
the
Lord
,
and
his
Wonders
in
th●…
Deep
?
For
first
,
sometimes
a
small
Boat
sha●…
save
them
,
when
a
stout
Ship
could
no●…
Thus
many
of
them
have
been
wonde●…
fully
preserved
,
and
thus
the
foremen●…
tioned
Author
relates
the
manner
of
hi●…
wonderful
preservation
?
Our
Ship
(
sait●…
he
)
had
sprung
a
Leak
,
or
rather
a
Plank●…
and
was
ready
to
sink
:
O
,
how
the
face
〈…〉
every
man
was
changed
at
this
afrigh●…
ment
!
One
was
at
his
Prayers
,
anothe●…
wringing
his
hands
,
a
third
shedding
tear●…
when
we
had
no
need
of
more
Salt-wate●…
After
this
fit
they
fell
to
work
,
and
(
as
it
i●…
usual
in
such
extreams
)
we
were
all
bus●…
in
doing
of
nothing
,
and
did
we
knew
no●…
what
.
The
Masters
Mate
whom
we
sen●…
down
to
search
out
the
Leak
,
quickly
returned
to
us
with
a
sad
countenance
,
trembling
hands
,
and
gnashing
of
teeth
,
〈…〉
quivering
tongue
,
and
words
half
spoken
signifying
unto
us
,
that
the
wound
was
incurable
Here
was
now
no
room
for
counsel●…
neither
had
we
time
to
ask
one
another
what
was
best
to
be
done
;
but
we
presentl●…
cast
out
our
Long-Boat
,
and
shot
off
Eigh●…
〈…〉
nine
Guns
,
which
seemed
to
me
to
be
so
●…
any
tolls
of
a
Passing-Bell
before
our
Death
.
〈…〉
leaped
into
the
Boat
,
but
leaped
short
;
●…
e
leg
in
the
Boat
,
Alterum
in
Charontis
●…
mba
.
Now
were
we
left
in
the
North
●…
eas
,
which
seldom
wear
a
smooth
Brow
;
●…
ut
at
this
time
contending
with
the
Wind
,
●…
elled
into
prodigious
Mountains
.
It
blew
●…
alf
a
storm
,
and
we
were
now
in
a
small
●…
ssel
:
What
credit
could
we
give
to
our
safe●…
in
a
small
and
open
Shallop
,
when
so
stately
Castle
of
Wood
,
which
we
but
now
lost
,
●…
uld
not
defend
it self
against
the
inso●…
ncy
of
the
Waves
?
We
were
many
●…
eagues
from
any
Shore
,
having
no
Compass
guide
us
,
nor
Provisions
to
sustain
us
,
●…
d
the
night
grew
black
upon
us
—
.
●…
othing
but
a
Miracle
could
preserve
us
,
●…
ing
out
of
the
reach
of
humane
help
—
.
●…
e
fell
to
Prayer
,
and
our
extremity
plead●…
for
us
;
—
for
in
this
moment
of
death
,
●…
hen
we
were
without
the
least
expectation
〈…〉
deliverance
,
he
sent
a
Ship
to
us
,
which
●…
e
must
needs
confess
to
be
the
Finger
of
●…
od
,
&c.
Thus
he
—
And
this
hath
been
●…
e
wonderful
door
opened
in
extremity
〈…〉
multitudes
more
for
their
escape
.
But
〈…〉
how
astonishing
are
these
ways
of
the
●…
ord
!
Well
may
we
say
,
His
ways
are
in
the
Sea
,
and
his
paths
in
the
great
Deep
,
and
his
footsteps
are
not
known
Psal
.
77.19
.
Secondly
,
Sometimes
they
shall
b●…
cast
upon
a
Rock
in
the
Sea
,
where
the●…
shall
be
preserved
till
some
other
way
o●…
deliverance
come
,
yea
,
preserved
strang●…
ly
,
God
blessing
a
small
matter
of
pro●…
vision
which
they
saved
to
sustain
them
though
they
said
of
it
,
as
the
Widow
〈…〉
Sarepta
to
the
Prophet
,
1
King
.
17
.
1●…
I
have
but
an
handful
of
Meal
,
and
〈◇〉
little
Oyl
,
and
I
am
gathering
two
stick●…
that
I
may
go
in
and
dress
it
,
for
me
an●…
my
son
,
that
we
may
eat
it
,
and
die
.
O●…
if
they
could
save
nothing
,
yet
a
fe●…
Muscles
or
Birds
Eggs
,
with
Gods
Bles●…
ing
,
have
sustained
them
till
the
time
〈◇〉
Mercy
came
.
This
hath
been
the
ca●…
of
many
.
Think
upon
this
,
you
that
〈…〉
buse
the
good
creatures
of
God
by
drun●…
enness
;
how
sweet
would
a
cup
of
fres●…
water
be
to
you
,
when
reduced
to
su●…
extremity
!
O
,
if
your
hearts
be
n●…
harder
than
the
Rocks
you
lay
upo●…
How
would
such
extraordinary
Merc●…
melt
you
into
love
and
thankfulness
!
Thirdly
,
Sometimes
they
have
be●…
wasted
to
the
shore
safely
upon
the
wra●…
or
by
making
a
Raft
of
the
broken
pieces
of
the
Ship
,
and
torn
Sails
,
and
Ropes
;
Tabula
post
Naufragium
.
and
upon
this
(
God
knows
,
a
poor
security
against
the
boisterous
Waves
)
●…
ave
they
ventured
themselves
.
A
sink●…
ng
man
(
as
we
say
)
will
catch
at
a
Bul●…
ush
.
Paul
and
those
that
suffered
Shipwrack
with
him
,
were
thus
saved
.
The
Centurion
commanded
,
that
they
which
●…
ould
swim
,
should
cast
themselves
first
into
●…
he
Sea
,
and
get
to
Land
.
And
the
rest
,
●…
ome
on
Boards
,
and
some
on
broken
pieces
●…
f
the
Ship
:
And
so
it
came
to
pass
,
that
●…
hey
escaped
all
safe
to
Land
.
Acts
27.43
,
44.
O
the
miraculous
Works
of
the
Lord
!
To
save
by
such
contemptible
and
impro●…
able
means
,
who
can
but
see
and
acknowledge
the
Finger
of
God
to
be
here
?
Lo
these
are
parts
of
his
ways
;
●…
ut
how
small
a
portion
is
heard
of
him
?
Job
26.14
.
1.
Use
of
Reproof
.
If
your
Preserva●…
ion
in
Storms
at
Sea
,
be
the
wonderful
Works
of
Divine
Providence
;
then
divers
of
you
deserve
to
be
sharply
reproved
from
this
truth
.
And
I
beseech
you
suffer
the
word
of
Reproof
,
meekly
and
penitently
.
I
shall
speak
nothing
to
reproach
you
;
no
,
it
is
not
to
reproach
,
but
to
reform
you
:
And
if
you
hate
Reproof
,
and
mock
at
counsel
,
God
may
shortly
speak
in
such
thundering
language
to
your
Consciences
,
as
will
be
terrible
for
you
to
hear
.
I
remember
it
is
said
o●…
S.
Bernard
,
that
whilest
he
was
seriously
reproving
the
prophaneness
of
one
(
and
if
I
misremember
not
,
it
was
his
own
Brother
)
who
was
a
Soldier
,
and
observing
how
he
slighted
his
holy
and
serious
counsel
,
his
spirit
was
greatly
grieved
a●…
it
;
and
he
told
him
,
Brother
,
God
,
〈◇〉
fear
,
will
shortly
make
way
to
your
hear●…
with
a
sword
,
to
which
my
words
can
find
no
access
;
and
the
event
soon
verified
the
sad
prediction
.
I
pray
God
none
of
you
may
be
taught
by
Captivities
and
Shipwracks
,
what
it
is
to
reject
faithful
Reproofs
and
wholsome
Counsel
,
seasonably
given
for
your
good
.
You
that
read
thes●…
lines
,
seriously
ask
your
own
Consciences
these
following
Questions
.
(
1.
)
Have
you
not
soon
forgotten
the
Works
and
Wonders
of
the
Lord
,
which
your
eyes
have
seen
?
It
may
be
for
th●…
present
you
have
been
sensibly
affecte●…
with
your
danger
,
and
the
Mercy
o●…
God
in
your
deliverance
,
but
hath
it
remained
upon
your
hearts
?
I
doubt
these
Mercies
have
been
written
in
the
Dust
,
which
should
have
been
ingraven
,
as
in
the
Rock
for
ever
.
Thus
it
was
with
Israel
,
a
people
that
saw
as
many
wonders
wrought
for
them
by
the
immediate
Finger
of
God
,
as
ever
did
any
people
in
the
World
;
and
yet
it
is
said
of
them
,
even
after
the
Red
Sea-deliverance
,
in
which
God
divided
the
Sea
for
them
,
when
the
Waves
thereof
roared
,
Isai
.
51.15
.
And
with
which
,
for
the
present
,
their
hearts
were
greatly
affected
;
for
it
is
said
,
Psal
.
106.12
.
That
they
believed
his
Word
,
and
sang
his
Praises
.
But
in
the
next
Verse
you
read
,
that
a
little
time
●…
asily
wiped
out
the
sense
of
this
Mercy
,
for
it
is
said
Vers
.
13.
They
soon
forgat
his
works
,
and
waited
not
for
his
counsels
.
I
doubt
this
was
not
the
sin
of
Israel
only
,
but
is
the
case
of
many
of
you
at
this
day
.
Well
,
God
did
not
forget
you
in
the
tme
of
your
extremity
,
though
you
so
●…
uickly
forget
him
.
Think
not
to
excuse
●…
our
selves
from
this
guilt
,
by
saying
,
●…
ou
do
still
remember
the
thing
:
You
●…
ay
do
so
,
and
yet
be
said
to
forget
his
Mercy
.
For
a
Deliverance
may
be
remembred
by
him
,
that
received
it
two
ways
,
namely
,
speculatively
and
affectingly
.
A
speculative
remembrance
is
only
to
call
to
mind
the
stories
of
such
a
danger
,
and
preservation
.
This
you
may
do
,
and
yet
God
account
himself
forgotten
,
except
you
so
remember
it
,
as
still
to
feel
the
powerful
impressions
thereof
upon
your
hearts
,
melting
them
into
thankfulness
,
love
,
and
dependence
upon
the
God
of
your
Salvations
.
(
2.
)
Have
you
not
walked
very
unanswerably
to
your
Deliverances
,
yea
,
and
to
the
solemn
ingagements
you
made
to
God
in
the
day
of
your
distress
?
I
fear
some
of
you
have
walked
,
after
God
hath
rescued
you
by
a
wonderful
immediate
Hand
from
the
Jaws
of
Death
;
as
if
you
had
been
delivered
to
commit
all
these
abominations
.
As
it
is
Jere
.
7.10
.
It
may
be
,
the
last
week
or
moneth
you
were
reeling
to
and
fro
upon
the
Stormy
Sea
,
and
staggering
like
drunken
men
;
and
this
reeling
and
staggering
along
the
streets
really
drunken
.
O
horrid
abomination
!
Do
ye
thus
requite
the
Lord
,
who
pitied
you
in
your
distress
,
and
,
being
full
of
compassion
,
saved
you
,
when
you
cried
to
him
?
Is
this
the
fruit
of
your
wonderful
salvation
?
If
a
man
should
have
told
you
in
that
day
,
it
would
have
been
thus
,
you
your selves
could
not
have
believed
it
,
but
would
have
answered
,
as
Hazael
did
to
the
Prophet
.
2
Kings
8.13
.
What
,
is
thy
servant
a
dog
,
that
he
●…
hould
do
such
things
?
Yet
so
it
was
,
and
●…
o
it
is
still
:
The
Lord
humble
you
for
●…
his
great
wickedness
.
If
this
be
all
the
●…
ruit
of
Mercy
and
Deliverance
,
it
had
●…
een
better
for
you
that
you
had
gone
down
to
the
bottom
then
,
rather
than
●…
o
live
only
to
treasure
up
more
wrath
●…
gainst
the
day
of
wrath
,
and
fill
up
●…
our
measure
.
(
3.
)
Are
there
not
a
sort
of
Atheisti●…
al
Sea-men
,
who
own
not
Providence
●…
t
all
,
either
in
the
raising
of
these
hor●…
id
Tempests
,
or
in
their
marvellous
●…
reservations
in
them
;
but
look
on
all
,
●…
s
coming
in
a
Natural
way
,
and
their
●…
scape
to
be
only
by
good
Fortune
,
and
●…
hance
:
How
wonderful
a
thing
is
it
in
●…
e
eyes
of
all
considering
men
,
that
●…
rovidence
should
take
any
notice
of
●…
em
in
a
way
of
favor
,
that
so
wicked●…
disown
it
,
and
so
directly
disoblige
it
?
●…
ow
can
you
possibly
shut
your
eyes
a●…
ainst
such
clear
light
,
and
stop
your
ears
against
such
loud
and
plain
Language
,
whereby
the
power
and
goodness
of
God
proclaims
it self
to
you
in
these
Providences
!
Ah
,
methinks
you
should
most
readily
and
thankfully
subscribe
that
great
truth
.
Psal
.
68.20
.
He
that
is
our
God
,
is
the
God
of
Salvation
;
and
unto
God
the
Lord
belong
the
issues
from
Death
.
But
though
men
see
Signs
and
Wonders
,
they
will
not
believe
,
yea
,
though
themselves
become
Wonders
to
the
World
by
their
miraculous
Deliverances
;
yet
so
bruitish
and
stupid
are
they
,
that
they
will
not
see
the
hand
that
saves
them●…
Take
heed
what
you
do
:
You
set
you●…
selves
in
the
direct
way
to
destruction
by
this
,
and
highly
provoke
the
Lord
to
a●…
bandon
,
and
cast
you
out
of
the
care
o●…
his
Providence
;
and
if
he
once
do
so
you
are
lost
men
.
(
4.
)
And
yet
more
vile
(
if
more
vileness
can
be
in
a
sin
)
than
all
this
.
Ar●…
there
not
a
generation
of
wretched
me●…
among
you
,
that
fall
a
swearing
,
cursing
and
blaspheming
God
,
even
when
he
i●…
uttering
his
terrible
voyce
in
the
Tem●…
pest
,
and
every
moment
threatning
t●…
intomb
them
in
the
Deep
?
When
yo●…
should
be
upon
your
knees
bewailin●…
your
sins
,
and
pleading
with
God
for
Mercy
(
as
I
doubt
not
but
some
of
you
●…
o
)
to
be
yet
more
and
more
provoking
●…
im
,
daring
him
to
his
face
;
and
yet
●…
ore
incensing
his
indignation
which
is
●…
lready
kindled
against
you
;
who
,
that
●…
ears
this
,
can
chuse
but
admire
the
riches
●…
f
Gods
patience
and
forbearance
to●…
wards
such
men
?
The
very
Heathen
Ma●…
iners
in
a
Storm
,
called
every
man
upon
●…
is
God
,
Jonah
1.5
.
We
say
,
extremity
will
cause
the
worst
of
men
to
pray
,
and
●…
ompose
the
vainest
spirit
unto
serious●…
ess
;
but
it
seems
by
you
,
it
will
not
.
Is
●…
his
the
frame
and
temper
you
will
meet
●…
eath
in
?
What
,
speaking
the
language
of
Devils
,
and
damned
Spirits
before
●…
ou
come
among
them
?
Hasting
on
your
own
ruine
,
as
if
it
were
too
slack
and
●…
ingering
in
its
motion
?
The
Lord
open
●…
he
eyes
of
these
miserable
Creatures
,
and
convince
them
,
that
they
are
not
only
going
to
Hell
as
others
are
,
but
that
●…
hey
are
the
forlorn
of
all
that
wretched
crew
that
are
bound
thither
;
and
proportionable
will
be
their
misery
,
except
●…
hey
repent
.
2.
Use
of
Exhortation
.
This
point
is
●…
et
farther
improvable
for
you
by
way
of
Exhortation
;
serving
to
press
you
to
those
proper
duties
which
God
calls
you
to
,
by
his
terrible
providential
voice
in
the
Storms
,
and
by
your
wonderful
Deliverances
.
1.
And
the
first
lesson
you
are
to
learn
from
hence
,
is
,
To
adore
the
power
of
God
.
O
what
a
manifestation
of
Divine
Power
is
here
!
You
are
the
men
that
see
more
than
others
,
the
Works
of
the
Lord
,
and
his
Wonders
in
the
Deep
.
It
is
one
of
Gods
ends
,
in
shewing
you
these
Wonders
,
To
make
his
mighty
power
known
,
Psal
.
106.8
.
O
what
a
terrible
voyce
doth
God
utter
upon
the
Seas
,
when
the
Heavens
are
black
above
you
,
the
furious
Winds
and
dreadful
Thunders
ratling
about
you
,
the
Sea
and
Waves
roaring
beneath
you
!
Is
not
this
voice
of
the
Lord
full
of
Majesty
?
Doth
it
not
aw
your
hearts
and
make
them
tremble
?
In
three
things
his
infinite
power
is
discovered
to
you
.
First
,
In
raising
these
terrible
Tempests
,
and
that
from
so
small
and
weak
a
beginning
as
a
thin
vapor
from
the
Earth
is
:
This
is
the
wonderful
Work
of
God
.
Psal
.
135.7
.
He
causeth
the
vapors
to
ascend
from
the
ends
of
the
Earth
;
he
maketh
Lightnings
for
the
Rain
,
he
bringeth
Wind
out
of
his
Treasures
.
Secondly
,
In
limiting
and
bounding
their
force
and
power
:
What
prodigious
effects
else
would
follow
?
The
Wind
is
a
fierce
and
boisterous
creature
,
and
would
(
if
God
did
not
by
his
Providence
restrain
)
destroy
,
and
overturn
all
,
both
by
Sea
and
Land
.
Or
if
Satan
,
who
is
stiled
The
Prince
of
the
power
of
the
Air
,
were
left
at
liberty
to
execute
his
malice
by
such
an
instrument
,
not
a
Ship
should
cross
the
Seas
,
nor
a
House
be
safe
at
Land
;
as
is
evident
enough
by
the
furious
haste
he
made
,
to
overturn
the
house
with
an
horrible
Tempest
upon
Jobs
Chidren
,
as
soon
as
he
had
received
a
permission
from
Heaven
to
do
it
.
And
3.
no
less
visible
is
the
Power
of
God
in
calming
,
and
appeasing
the
stormy
winds
,
and
remanding
them
into
his
treasuries
,
Psal
.
107.29
.
He
maketh
the
Storm
a
Calme
:
Yea
,
he
doth
so
in
the
very
nick
of
time
when
all
is
concluded
lost
.
Thus
you
read
in
Mark
4.39
.
when
the
waves
beat
into
the
Ship
;
So
that
it
was
now
full
,
and
the
Disciples
cried
to
the
Lord
,
Master
,
carest
thou
not
that
we
perish
?
He
arose
and
rebuked
the
wind
,
and
said
to
the
Sea
,
Peace
,
be
still
;
and
the
wind
ceased
,
and
there
was
a
great
calm
.
Just
as
one
would
hush
a
Child
,
Peace
,
be
still
.
O
the
Soveraign
Power
of
God!
How
should
it
be
reverenced
and
adored
by
all
that
behold
it
,
in
these
marvellous
effects
of
it
?
2.
The
second
lesson
you
are
taught
by
this
Doctrine
,
is
,
To
admire
the
Mercy
of
God
.
Mercy
is
no
less
discovered
than
Power
,
yea
,
the
Power
of
God
is
put
forth
to
give
his
Mercy
a
fair
occasion
to
shine
forth
in
your
Deliverance
.
God
sometimes
permits
your
danger
to
grow
to
an
extremity
,
and
delays
your
Deliverance
to
the
last
moment
,
till
all
hopes
of
safety
are
gone
,
upon
the
like
reason
,
That
Lazarus
his
Resurrection
was
deferred
;
that
the
Work
of
God
in
your
Preservation
may
commend
it self
to
you
under
the
greatest
advantage
.
O
that
you
would
view
these
Mercies
in
all
their
indearing
circumstances
.
I
can
only
hint
your
duty
generally
in
this
case
,
you
may
inlarge
upon
it
,
if
you
have
hearts
fit
for
such
a
blessed
Work
.
And
mark
particularly
the
multitudes
of
Mercies
,
that
are
complicaated
and
involved
in
one
Deliverance
.
Observe
the
season
when
,
the
manner
how
,
the
means
by
which
your
Salvation
was
wrought
.
It
is
a
thousand
pities
,
that
so
much
of
Gods
glory
,
and
your
comfort
as
anyone
,
even
the
smallest
circumstance
may
contain
,
should
be
lost
.
3.
Lastly
,
and
above
all
.
See
that
you
answer
Gods
ends
in
your
Deliverances
.
If
that
be
lost
,
God
may
say
concerning
you
,
as
David
did
of
Nabal
,
1
Sam
.
25.21
.
Surely
,
in
vain
have
I
kept
all
that
this
fellow
hath
in
the
Wilderness
;
so
that
nothing
was
missed
of
all
that
pertained
to
him
;
and
he
hath
requited
me
evil
for
good
.
So
here
,
in
vain
have
I
kept
this
fellow
upon
the
Sea
,
when
I
suffered
others
to
sink
:
In
vain
have
I
preserved
his
life
,
liberty
,
and
estate
;
so
often
by
an
out-stretched
Arm
of
Power
,
and
Mercy
to
him
,
seeing
he
requites
me
evil
for
good
.
O
let
me
intreat
you
to
be
careful
to
comply
with
the
designs
and
ends
of
God
in
these
your
wonderful
Preservations
.
If
you
inquire
what
Gods
ends
in
your
Deliverances
are
.
I
answer
,
First
,
It
is
to
lead
you
to
repentance
.
The
goodness
of
God
(
saith
the
Apostle
)
leadeth
thee
to
repentance
.
Rom.
2.4
.
Dost
thou
not
know
the
Voice
of
Mercy
?
Why
,
it
bespeaks
thy
return
to
God
.
It
may
be
thou
hast
spent
all
thy
life
,
to
this
day
,
in
the
service
of
sin
:
Thou
never
redeemedst
one
of
all
thy
precious
hours
,
to
consider
thine
own
estate
,
to
bewail
thy
sin
and
misery
,
to
seek
after
an
Interest
in
Christ
.
Why
,
now
here
is
a
Providence
faln
in
that
doth
,
as
it
were
,
take
thee
by
the
hand
,
and
lead
thee
to
this
great
necessary
Work
.
The
end
of
God
in
raising
this
Storm
,
was
to
deliver
thee
from
the
more
dreadful
Tempest
of
his
Wrath
;
which
without
Repentance
must
shortly
overtake
thy
Soul
,
in
the
blackness
of
darkness
for
ever
.
Now
God
hath
awakened
thy
Conscience
by
this
fright
,
made
it
charge
home
thy
sins
upon
thee
,
terrified
thee
with
dismal
apprehensions
of
Death
and
Hell
.
O
,
what
a
fair
opportunity
and
advantage
hath
he
now
put
into
thy
hand
for
Repentance
,
Reformation
,
and
gaining
an
Interest
in
Jesus
Christ
.
If
this
season
be
lost
,
Conscience
suffered
to
fall
again
into
a
dead
sleep
,
and
thy
heart
be
again
hardned
by
the
deceitfulness
of
sin
,
thou
maist
never
have
such
an
opportunity
for
Salvation
opened
to
thee
anymore
.
Secondly
,
If
this
end
be
answered
,
then
a
farther
design
God
hath
in
thy
Deliverance
,
is
to
ingage
,
and
incourage
thy
Soul
to
dependance
upon
God
,
in
future
straits
and
dangers
.
This
is
food
for
Faith
,
and
now
you
are
furnished
with
experience
of
the
Power
,
Mercy
,
and
Goodness
of
God
,
to
inable
you
to
roll
your selves
upon
him
,
when
new
exigencies
befal
you
.
If
God
exercise
you
with
such
extremities
,
another
time
you
may
say
with
the
Apostle
,
2
Cor
.
1.10
.
Who
delivered
us
from
so
great
a
Death
,
and
doth
deliver
;
in
whom
we
trust
he
will
yet
deliver
us
.
If
your
first
Deliverance
were
a
Deliverance
without
a
Promise
,
when
you
were
without
Christ
;
what
incouragement
have
you
to
depend
upon
him
,
when
his
end
is
answered
in
your
Repentance
and
Conversion
;
and
being
in
Christ
,
are
intituled
to
all
the
Promises
?
Thirdly
and
lastly
,
Gods
end
in
your
marvellous
Preservations
and
Deliverances
,
is
,
to
furnish
you
for
,
and
ingage
you
to
a
life
of
praise
.
O
,
how
should
the
high
praises
of
God
,
be
ever
in
your
mouths
!
You
have
seen
his
Works
and
Wonders
in
the
Deeps
.
And
this
is
it
which
the
Psalmist
presses
upon
you
,
as
a
becoming
Return
for
your
Mercies
,
in
the
words
following
my
Text
.
O
that
Men
would
praise
the
Lord
for
his
goodness
,
and
for
his
wonderful
Works
to
the
Childdren
of
Men
.
O
with
what
warm
and
inlarged
affections
,
should
you
express
your
thankfulness
to
the
God
of
your
Salvation
!
And
say
as
David
,
What
am
I
,
O
Lord
God
;
and
what
is
my
Fathers
house
,
that
thou
shouldst
do
such
great
things
for
me
?
Was
such
a
life
,
as
mine
,
worth
the
working
of
so
many
wonders
to
save
it
!
O
Lord
,
thou
knowest
it
hath
been
a
life
spent
in
vanity
.
Thy
glory
hath
not
been
precious
in
mine
eyes
,
but
my
life
hath
been
precious
in
thine
eyes
.
Many
more
useful
,
and
less
sinful
than
my self
,
have
perished
,
and
I
am
saved
.
O
Lord
,
shew
me
the
designs
and
gracious
ends
of
these
Deliverances
.
Surely
there
is
some
great
thing
to
be
done
by
me
,
or
else
so
great
a
Salvation
had
not
been
wrought
for
me
.
The
Lord
saw
in
what
a
sad
case
my
poor
Soul
was
,
to
be
summoned
immediately
before
his
Judgment
Seat
.
That
if
I
had
gone
down
under
all
my
guilt
,
I
had
sunk
to
the
bottom
of
Hell
:
But
thou
in
love
to
my
Soul
,
hast
delivered
it
from
the
Pit
of
Corruption
,
that
I
might
yet
injoy
a
season
for
Salvation
;
and
be
once
more
intrusted
with
the
precious
Talents
of
Time
and
Means
.
O
that
I
may
not
abuse
the
Grace
of
God
in
this
new
intrustment
,
as
I
have
done
in
the
former
!
Let
me
not
live
as
one
delivered
to
commit
all
these
abominations
!
And
now
after
all
that
is
come
upon
me
for
my
evils
,
seeing
thou
,
my
God
,
hast
punished
me
less
than
mine
iniquities
deserve
;
and
hast
given
me
such
a
Deliverance
as
this
:
Should
I
again
break
thy
Commandments
?
Ezra
9.13
,
14.
O
let
this
new
Mercy
,
produce
a
new
Heart
and
Life
!
THE
Sea-mans
Preservative
IN
Foreign
Countreys
.
SERMON
III
.
Psal
.
139.9
,
10.
If
I
take
the
Wings
of
the
Morning
,
and
dwell
in
the
uttermost
parts
of
the
Sea
;
even
there
shall
thy
right
hand
lead
me
,
and
thy
right
hand
shall
hold
me
.
IN
this
Psalm
the
Omnipresence
and
Omniscience
of
God
,
are
the
subjects
of
the
Psalmists
Meditation
;
and
these
Attributes
are
here
promiscuously
discoursed
,
not
only
because
of
the
near
affinity
that
is
betwixt
their
Natures
;
but
because
the
one
is
the
demonstration
of
the
other
:
It
is
evident
God
knows
all
things
,
because
he
fills
all
places
.
Touching
the
Omniscience
of
God
,
he
discovers
the
infinite
perfection
of
that
Attribute
by
the
particular
,
and
exact
notice
it
takes
of
all
our
ways
.
Ver
.
3.
Thou
compassest
my
paths
,
and
art
acquainted
with
all
my
ways
:
Of
all
our
words
,
Ver
.
4.
There
is
not
a
word
in
my
tongue
,
but
lo
,
O
Lord
,
thou
knowest
it
altogether
.
Yea
,
of
all
our
thoughts
;
and
that
not
only
in
the
instant
of
their
conception
,
but
long
before
they
were
conceived
.
Ver
.
2.
Thou
understandest
my
thoughts
afar
off
,
even
from
eternity
.
Thus
he
displays
the
Omniscience
of
God
.
And
then
to
make
demonstration
of
the
truth
,
and
certainty
of
this
Doctrine
of
Gods
Omniscience
,
he
proves
it
from
his
Omnipresence
,
q.
d
.
He
that
fills
all
things
,
cannot
but
know
all
things
.
Now
Gods
presence
fills
Heaven
,
yea
,
and
Hell
too
,
Ver
.
8.
And
all
parts
of
the
Earth
and
Sea
,
even
the
remotest
,
Ver
.
9
,
10.
And
therefore
no
Creature
,
nor
action
of
any
Creature
,
can
escape
his
cognisance
.
It
is
not
here
,
as
among
men
;
if
a
malefactor
be
condemned
by
the
Laws
of
one
Kingdom
,
he
may
escape
by
flying
into
another
;
but
it
is
far
otherwise
here
,
for
,
saith
the
Psalmist
,
(
personating
a
guilty
fugitive
indeavoring
to
make
an
escape
from
the
arrest
of
Gods
Justice
)
If
I
take
the
Wings
of
the
Morning
,
and
flee
into
the
uttermost
parts
of
the
Sea
;
even
there
shall
thy
hand
lead
me
,
and
thy
right
hand
shall
hold
me
.
In
which
words
you
have
these
two
things
mainly
remarkable
.
1.
The
greatest
security
and
incouragement
to
a
sinner
supposed
.
2.
That
supposed
security
and
incouragement
utterly
destroyed
.
1.
The
greatest
security
and
incouragement
to
a
sinner
supposed
.
Alludit
ad
celerimam
radiorum
solis
excursinem
,
qui
momento
ab
oriente
ad
occidentem
perveniunt
.
Calvin
.
If
I
take
the
Wings
of
the
Morning
,
and
dwell
in
the
uttermost
parts
of
the
Sea
.
Where
two
things
seem
to
offer
towards
his
Protection
.
First
,
The
Place
;
the
remotest
part
of
the
Sea
,
by
which
you
are
to
understand
the
most
obscure
nook
in
the
Creation
;
farthest
removed
from
any
inspection
or
observation
.
And
secondly
,
His
swift
and
speedy
flight
,
after
the
commission
of
sin
,
to
this
supposed
Refuge
and
Sanctuary
:
It
is
here
supposed
,
that
a
sinner
should
flie
as
swift
as
the
light
of
the
Sun
,
which
in
a
moment
shines
from
the
East
to
the
West
,
and
so
the
meaning
is
,
Could
I
flee
with
a
celerity
equal
to
the
Sun
,
or
his
Beams
of
Light
;
which
breaking
forth
in
the
Morning
,
do
in
an
instant
inlighten
the
remotest
part
of
the
Hemisphere
.
Could
I
as
swiftly
flee
to
the
most
obscure
,
remote
,
solitary
place
in
all
the
World
.
Thus
the
sinners
security
is
supposed
.
2.
This
supposed
security
and
incouragement
is
utterly
destroyed
.
Non
accipitur
deducere
pro
viam
monstrare
;
Sed
deducet
me
manus
tua
tanquam
custos
captivum
sibi
commissam
deduxit
.
Vatab
.
Even
there
shall
thy
hand
lead
me
,
and
thy
right
hand
shall
hold
me
.
The
leading
hand
of
God
is
not
here
to
be
understood
,
as
a
directing
or
guiding
hand
,
to
shew
the
fugitive
sinner
the
the
way
of
his
escape
;
but
contrarily
,
Thy
hand
shall
lead
me
,
as
a
Keeper
leads
his
prisoner
back
to
the
place
of
custody
,
from
which
he
indeavored
an
escape
.
And
the
following
clause
is
exegetical
;
Thy
right
hand
shall
hold
,
or
detain
me
.
Viz
.
In
strict
custody
.
So
that
the
sum
of
all
,
is
this
.
Doctr
.
That
the
whole
World
affords
no
place
of
secrecy
or
security
for
a
sinner
to
escape
the
observing
Eye
,
and
righteous
Hand
of
God
.
Jonah
fled
from
the
Lord
to
Tarshish
;
but
could
he
escape
so
?
No
,
the
Lord
sent
a
Storm
after
him
which
brought
back
the
fugitive
.
Jonah
1.3
,
4.
We
read
Isai
.
29.15
.
of
such
as
dig
deep
,
to
hide
their
counsels
from
the
Lord
.
(
i.e.
)
They
plot
contrive
and
study
to
conceal
their
wicked
designs
,
to
sin
with
greatest
secresie
and
security
.
But
,
what
can
possibly
be
a
covering
from
him
,
to
whose
sight
all
things
are
naked
and
manifest
?
Where
can
a
sinner
be
hid
from
him
,
whose
presence
fils
Heaven
and
Earth
?
Jere
.
23.24
.
The
Scripture
gives
full
proof
to
this
great
Truth
.
It
is
clear
from
Prov.
15.3
.
The
eyes
of
the
Lord
are
in
every
place
,
beholding
the
evil
and
the
good
.
And
again
,
Job
34.21
,
22.
For
his
eyes
are
upon
the
ways
of
man
,
and
he
seeth
all
his
goings
;
there
is
no
darkness
,
nor
shadow
of
death
,
where
the
workers
of
iniquity
may
hide
themselves
.
Who
ever
goes
about
to
conceal
a
sin
in
secret
,
attempts
a
foolish
and
impossible
design
.
Psal
.
44.21
.
Shall
not
God
search
this
out
?
for
he
knoweth
the
secrets
of
the
heart
.
For
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
run
to
and
fro
,
through
the
whole
Earth
,
2
Chro
.
16.9
.
Now
in
the
handling
of
this
point
,
I
purpose
to
shew
you
.
1.
That
men
are
often
induced
to
sin
,
upon
hopes
of
secresie
and
concealment
.
2.
That
to
sin
upon
these
Encouragements
,
strongly
argues
their
natural
Atheism
:
They
think
they
are
safe
,
if
men
know
it
not
;
they
reckon
not
upon
Gods
discovery
of
them
.
3.
That
these
incouragements
to
sin
,
are
vain
things
,
it
being
impossible
any
place
can
hide
a
sinner
from
God
;
and
how
it
appears
,
that
the
Eye
of
God
is
,
and
must
needs
be
upon
us
,
and
our
actions
,
where-ever
we
are
,
and
how
closely
soever
we
indeavor
to
hide
them
.
And
then
apply
it
,
First
,
Men
are
often
induced
to
commit
sin
upon
the
hopes
of
secresie
,
and
concealment
.
Sin
(
especially
some
kinds
of
sin
)
carry
so
much
shame
and
odium
in
them
,
that
it
restrains
men
from
the
open
practice
of
them
;
but
if
Satan
can
perswade
them
,
they
shall
never
be
divulged
to
their
reproach
,
they
will
venture
upon
them
.
See
that
Text
,
The
eye
of
the
Adulterer
waiteth
for
the
twilight
,
saying
,
No
eye
shall
see
me
,
and
disguiseth
his
face
,
Job
24.15
.
Reckoning
himself
secure
,
if
he
can
carry
his
wickedness
under
a
vail
of
darkness
,
not
caring
what
wickedness
he
doth
,
so
he
may
do
it
undiscerned
.
It
is
not
the
acting
of
sin
,
but
the
discovery
of
it
that
puts
them
into
terrors
.
So
it
is
added
with
respect
,
both
to
the
Adulterer
,
and
the
Thief
.
Vers
.
17.
The
morning
is
to
them
as
the
shadow
of
death
,
if
one
know
them
;
they
are
in
the
terrors
of
the
shadow
of
death
.
i
.
e
.
If
a
man
,
especially
a
man
in
Authority
,
a
Magistrate
meet
them
,
it
is
as
if
the
Image
of
death
passed
before
them
in
a
vision
.
So
those
Idolaters
,
Ezek
.
8.12
.
Son
of
man
,
hast
thou
seen
what
the
antients
of
the
house
of
Israel
do
in
the
dark
;
every
man
in
the
house
of
his
imagery
?
For
they
say
,
the
Lord
seeth
us
not
.
They
conclude
all
is
well
,
if
nothing
appear
.
This
incouragement
of
Secresie
is
the
great
argument
,
by
which
Satan
prevails
with
men
to
commit
any
sin
that
hath
shame
or
danger
attending
it
.
But
his
promises
of
concealment
are
usually
made
good
,
as
his
promises
of
great
wealth
are
to
Witches
.
This
is
the
incouragement
.
Secondly
,
Next
I
will
make
it
evident
to
you
,
that
to
sin
upon
this
incouragement
argues
Atheism
of
him
that
commits
it
.
This
is
plain
,
for
did
men
believe
the
Omnipresence
and
Omniscience
of
God
,
such
an
incouragement
to
sin
as
secresie
could
have
no
force
with
them
.
Thus
when
the
Antients
of
Israel
practised
their
Idolatry
in
the
dark
,
it
is
plain
they
thought
God
saw
them
not
.
Ezek
.
8.12
.
For
they
say
,
the
Lord
seeth
us
not
,
the
Lord
hath
forsaken
the
Earth
.
(
i.e.
)
They
did
not
really
believe
Gods
Omnipresence
and
Omniscience
.
And
Job
tells
us
Chap.
31.26
,
27
,
28.
That
if
he
had
beheld
the
Sun
in
his
brightness
,
(
i.e.
)
To
admire
and
worship
it
as
a
God
:
Or
,
his
heart
been
secretly
inticed
;
he
should
have
denied
the
God
that
is
above
.
Every
one
that
is
inticed
to
sin
upon
the
incouragement
of
Secresie
,
doth
so
far
deny
the
God
that
is
above
.
If
such
a
man
did
really
believe
there
is
a
God
that
sees
him
,
whose
eyes
are
as
flames
of
fire
,
Revel
.
1.14
.
To
whom
the
darkness
and
the
light
are
both
alike
.
Psal
.
139.12
.
It
were
impossible
he
should
be
so
terrified
at
the
discovery
of
a
Creature
,
and
so
secure
and
wholly
unconcerned
at
the
discovery
of
God
:
It
could
not
be
,
that
the
observation
of
the
great
God
,
should
not
so
much
trouble
them
,
as
the
observation
of
a
little
child
.
Thus
we
find
the
inward
thoughts
of
mens
he●rts
,
concerning
God
,
discovered
by
th●●r
bold
attempts
upon
secret
sins
.
Isa
.
29.15
.
Wo
to
them
that
seek
deep
to
hide
their
counsel
from
the
Lord
,
and
their
works
are
in
the
dark
;
and
they
say
,
Who
seeth
us
,
and
who
knoweth
us
.
They
think
if
their
works
are
shrowded
under
a
vail
of
darkness
,
they
are
safe
enough
:
If
they
can
escape
the
Bar
of
an
Earthly
god
(
a
Magistrate
)
they
shall
never
be
accountable
at
any
other
Bar
.
We
have
another
sad
instance
of
the
same
impiety
in
Psal
.
73.11
.
And
they
say
,
How
doth
God
know
?
And
is
there
knowledge
in
the
most
high
?
If
men
did
not
fan●y
to
themselves
,
there
is
no
God
,
or
(
which
is
all
one
)
that
he
is
like
unto
themselves
,
one
that
cannot
see
in
darkness
;
they
could
never
incourage
themselves
as
they
do
,
to
sin
upon
such
a
foolish
pretence
.
Thirdly
,
But
my
proper
business
in
this
place
,
is
to
prove
,
That
these
incouragements
to
sin
are
vain
things
;
that
no
sinner
can
hide
himself
from
the
Eye
of
God
.
This
is
plain
both
from
Scripture
and
Reason
.
The
Scriptures
speak
full
home
to
this
truth
.
Prov.
5.21
.
The
ways
of
a
man
are
before
the
Lord
;
and
he
pondereth
all
his
paths
.
To
ponder
or
weigh
our
paths
,
is
more
than
simply
to
observe
and
see
them
.
He
not
only
sees
the
action
,
but
puts
it
into
the
ballances
,
with
every
circumstance
belonging
to
it
,
and
tries
how
much
every
ingredient
in
the
action
weighs
,
and
what
it
comes
to
.
So
that
God
hath
not
only
an
universal
inspection
upon
every
action
;
but
he
hath
a
critical
inspection
into
it
also
.
The
Lord
is
a
God
of
knowledge
,
and
by
him
actions
are
weighed
.
1
Sam
.
2.3
.
So
Jere
.
13.25
,
27.
Thou
hast
forgotten
me
,
and
trusted
in
falshood
.
I
have
seen
thy
Adulteries
,
and
thy
neighings
,
the
lewdness
of
thy
whoredoms
and
abominations
.
q
.
d
.
Thou
forgatest
there
is
a
God
in
the
Heavens
that
beheld
thee
,
and
didst
verily
believe
all
was
safe
,
because
secret
from
man
.
In
this
falshood
or
cheat
put
upon
thee
,
by
the
devil
,
and
thine
own
Atheistical
heart
thou
didst
trust
.
But
I
have
seen
thee
,
and
all
thy
secret
leudness
.
It
is
a
Proverb
among
sinners
,
Si
non
caste
,
tamen
caute
.
Carry
the
matter
,
if
not
honestly
,
yet
warily
:
If
thou
have
a
mind
to
sin
,
yet
order
it
so
,
that
the
World
may
be
never
the
wiser
.
But
how
vain
a
thing
is
this
?
If
men
do
not
,
the
Lord
doth
see
it
.
I
know
,
and
am
a
witness
,
saith
the
Lord
.
Jer
.
29.23
.
Thus
the
Scripture
speaks
roundly
and
fully
to
the
point
in
hand
.
But
because
the
Atheism
of
the
World
is
so
great
,
and
it
is
an
hard
thing
to
convince
men
of
this
great
truth
,
so
as
to
over-aw
them
from
any
secret
sin
by
it
,
I
will
by
rational
arguments
demonstrate
the
truth
to
every
mans
conscience
,
and
give
you
plain
and
full
evidence
,
that
how
secretly
soever
men
carry
their
sinful
designs
,
yet
the
Lord
must
needs
be
privy
to
them
;
and
it
is
impossible
they
should
escape
his
cognisance
.
1.
For
first
,
he
that
formed
all
,
cannot
but
know
all
.
The
Workman
cannot
be
supposed
to
be
ignorant
of
any
part
of
his
own
work
.
Now
God
is
the
Former
of
all
things
;
every
place
,
and
every
person
he
hath
made
.
Where
then
shall
the
workers
of
iniquity
hide
themselves
?
You
have
the
folly
of
sinners
,
in
thinking
to
conceal
themselves
from
the
Eye
of
God
,
convinced
and
reproved
by
this
very
argument
.
Isai
.
29.15
,
16.
Wo
unto
them
that
seek
deep
to
hide
their
counsels
from
the
Lord
,
and
their
words
are
in
the
dark
;
and
they
say
,
Who
seeth
us
?
and
who
knoweth
us
?
Surely
,
your
turning
of
things
upside
down
,
shall
be
esteemed
as
the
Potters
clay
.
For
shall
the
work
say
to
him
that
made
it
,
he
made
me
not
?
Or
shall
the
thing
framed
,
say
of
him
that
framed
it
;
he
hath
no
understanding
?
q
.
d
.
Think
ye
by
deep-laid
designs
,
by
the
advantage
of
darkness
,
by
moulding
and
new
moulding
your
crafty
designs
in
your
heads
,
as
the
clay
is
moulded
now
into
this
,
then
into
that
shape
by
the
Potters
hands
,
to
hide
it
from
me
?
O
bruitish
Creatures
,
and
without
understanding
!
Am
not
I
the
God
that
formed
you
?
And
can
it
be
supposed
,
I
should
not
know
the
most
secret
thoughts
,
plots
,
and
designs
of
mine
own
Creatures
,
who
cannot
contrive
a
design
,
nor
conceive
a
thought
without
me
?
How
absurd
is
this
?
Find
out
a
place
which
God
made
not
,
or
a
Creature
which
he
formed
not
;
and
then
your
pretences
to
that
Creatures
concealment
from
God
,
in
such
a
place
,
may
have
some
colour
.
And
this
Argument
is
again
urged
to
convince
the
bruitish
Atheist
.
Psal
.
94.8
,
9
,
10.
Understand
ye
bruitish
among
the
people
,
and
ye
fools
,
when
will
ye
be
wise
?
He
that
planted
the
ear
,
shall
he
not
hear
?
He
that
formed
the
eye
,
shall
he
not
see
?
He
that
chasteneth
the
Heathen
,
shall
he
not
correct
?
He
that
teacheth
man
knowledge
,
shall
not
he
know
?
The
Lord
knoweth
the
thoughts
of
man
,
that
they
are
vanity
.
So
that
it
is
the
vainest
of
all
vanity
in
the
World
,
to
think
of
hiding
your
sins
from
the
Lord
.
2.
He
that
sustains
all
,
cannot
but
know
,
and
discern
all
.
You
that
seek
to
hide
counsel
from
the
Lord
,
know
you
not
,
That
in
him
you
live
,
move
,
and
have
your
being
?
Acts
17.28
.
Do
not
you
derive
that
very
power
from
him
,
which
you
abuse
,
to
sinning
against
him
?
And
do
you
depend
necessarily
,
and
continually
upon
God
for
all
?
Must
he
give
you
the
power
to
move
,
and
by
that
power
can
you
move
beyond
him
,
and
get
out
of
his
reach
?
Cannot
you
think
a
thought
without
him
,
and
yet
can
exclude
him
from
those
very
thoughts
which
you
had
no
power
to
conceive
,
but
from
him
?
Exercise
but
common
Reason
in
the
case
,
and
it
will
hiss
at
your
absurd
designs
.
3.
He
that
governs
all
,
can
be
ignorant
of
nothing
.
There
is
a
perpetual
influence
of
Providence
,
swaying
and
governing
all
the
Creatures
,
and
all
their
actions
;
else
the
very
ligaments
of
Nature
would
crack
,
and
the
World
break
up
and
disband
.
This
Providence
extends
it self
to
the
least
and
lowest
of
Creatures
,
and
their
actions
.
Luk
.
12.6
.
A
Sparrow
falls
not
to
the
ground
without
it
.
Deus
maximus
in
minimis
.
The
great
God
hath
something
to
do
about
the
most
minute
and
inconsiderable
things
,
yea
,
the
most
contingent
and
uncertain
things
,
as
is
the
disposal
of
a
Lot
,
Prov.
16.33
.
And
indeed
,
this
Omniscience
of
God
,
is
that
which
is
necessary
to
his
Universal
Government
.
How
shall
he
rule
that
person
,
or
in
that
place
,
which
he
knows
not
?
Indeed
Earthly
Governors
may
do
so
:
It
is
not
necessary
they
have
a
personal
immediate
cognizance
of
each
place
and
person
in
their
dominions
;
it
is
enough
that
they
be
virtually
and
mediately
governed
by
them
;
but
it
is
not
so
with
God
.
It
is
necessary
his
eye
should
immediately
see
all
the
parts
of
his
Dominion
.
He
could
not
rule
the
World
,
if
he
were
not
an
Omniscient
God
.
Psal
.
66.7
.
He
ruleth
by
his
power
for
ever
,
his
eyes
behold
the
Nations
:
Let
not
the
rebellious
exalt
themselves
.
4.
He
that
hath
set
a
spy
to
observe
,
and
note
what
every
man
doth
,
cannot
but
know
his
actions
,
how
secret
soever
they
be
.
Now
so
it
is
here
,
God
sends
a
spy
with
you
to
observe
and
record
your
most
secret
actions
and
thoughts
,
in
every
place
;
I
mean
your
own
Consciences
,
from
whose
observation
none
of
your
ways
can
possibly
be
exempt
.
The
sense
of
this
made
the
Heathen
say
,
Turpe
quid
ausurus
,
te
sine
teste
time
.
When
thou
art
attempting
a
sinful
act
,
fear
thy self
without
any
other
witness
,
Conscience
is
privy
to
your
most
secret
designs
and
thoughts
.
1
Kings
2.44
.
Thou
knowest
all
the
wickedness
which
thy
heart
,
(
i.e.
)
thy
Conscience
,
is
privy
to
.
And
if
Conscience
know
all
,
God
must
needs
see
and
know
it
.
So
the
Apostle
reasons
,
from
the
lesser
to
the
greater
.
1
Joh
.
3.20
.
If
our
heart
condemn
us
(
which
is
there
put
for
our
conscience
)
God
is
greater
then
our
hearts
,
and
knoweth
all
things
.
If
the
spirit
of
a
man
knows
the
things
of
a
man
,
much
more
he
that
formed
that
spirit
,
and
indowed
man
with
it
.
5.
He
that
knows
things
more
secret
and
unsearchable
,
than
our
most
secret
actions
can
be
,
must
needs
know
them
,
how
secret
soever
they
be
.
Now
there
are
many
things
more
close
and
secret
,
than
any
action
of
ours
can
possibly
be
,
and
yet
God
knows
them
.
The
thoughts
of
the
heart
are
more
secret
,
than
any
external
action
,
so
secret
,
that
no
Creature
can
search
them
;
the
Devil
himself
hath
but
a
conjectural
guess
at
them
.
But
the
Lord
telleth
unto
man
what
is
his
thought
.
As
in
Amos
4.13
.
So
Jer
.
17.10
.
I
the
Lord
search
the
heart
,
I
try
the
reins
.
i
.
e
.
The
most
obscure
,
inward
,
and
deep
secrets
lodged
in
the
heart
:
Nay
,
which
is
more
,
he
not
only
knows
our
thoughts
when
they
are
formed
,
and
conceived
in
the
heart
,
but
long
before
their
conception
.
Psal
.
139.2
.
Thou
knowest
my
thoughts
afar
off
.
Divines
generally
interpret
it
from
eternity
;
even
so
long
before
they
were
actually
thought
,
he
foreknew
every
thought
we
would
think
;
and
what
can
be
imagined
more
secret
,
and
undiscernable
,
than
a
future
thought
?
Now
if
this
be
known
to
him
,
how
much
more
our
thoughts
formed
into
projects
and
designs
,
and
these
executed
by
external
actions
?
O
deceive
not
your selves
with
hopes
of
secresie
;
nothing
can
be
a
secret
to
him
that
knows
the
counsels
of
all
hearts
.
6.
He
that
providentially
brings
to
light
the
most
secret
contrivances
of
men
,
and
publishes
them
before
all
Israel
,
and
before
the
Sun
,
must
needs
see
them
,
and
know
them
.
How
closely
had
Achan
covered
his
wickedness
?
He
never
suspected
a
discovery
;
yet
God
brought
i●…
to
light
.
With
how
much
contrivance
was
the
sin
of
David
covered
,
yet
Go●…
discovered
it
.
Thou
didst
this
thing
secretly
,
but
I
will
do
this
thing
before
all
Israel
and
before
the
Sun.
1
Sam
.
12.12
.
Histories
abound
with
Examples
of
God
bringing
to
light
murders
,
so
secretl●…
committed
,
that
it
was
impossible
the●…
should
ever
be
revealed
in
this
World
without
a
miracle
of
Providence
;
and
yet
so
they
have
been
brought
to
light
.
Bessus
having
committed
such
a
murther
,
fancied
the
Swallows
that
were
chattering
in
the
Chimney
,
had
said
Bessus
killed
a
man
;
and
thereupon
confessed
the
fact
.
How
secure
were
the
contrivers
of
the
Popish
Powder-plot
,
that
Catholick
Villany
,
in
a
double
sense
having
sworn
all
their
accomplices
to
secresie
,
and
managed
the
whole
design
so
closely
,
that
Guy
Faux
upon
the
discovery
of
it
,
said
,
The
Devil
must
needs
be
the
discoverer
of
it
.
How
easie
were
it
to
expatiate
upon
this
theam
?
But
I
will
not
be
tiresome
in
instances
:
All
ages
are
the
witnesses
of
this
truth
.
Who
then
can
deny
or
question
that
great
confessed
truth
.
Dan
.
2.28
.
There
is
a
God
in
Heaven
that
reveals
secrets
:
And
if
he
reveals
them
,
he
must
needs
know
them
.
7.
He
that
will
judge
all
secrets
,
cannot
but
know
them
.
Now
God
will
judge
the
secrets
of
men
in
that
great
day
.
Rom.
2.16
.
God
shall
bring
every
work
into
judgment
,
with
every
secret
thing
,
whether
it
be
good
,
or
whether
it
be
evil
.
Eccle
.
12.
ult
.
The
Judge
of
the
Whole
Earth
,
will
not
judge
at
random
,
his
Judgment
will
be
infallible
,
because
his
Omniscience
is
so
.
His
eyes
are
upon
the
ways
of
man
,
and
he
seeth
all
his
goings
;
for
he
will
not
lay
upon
man
more
than
right
,
that
he
should
enter
into
judgment
with
God
.
Job
34.21
,
23.
So
that
the
truth
of
this
point
,
is
beyond
all
controversie
and
contradiction
,
That
the
whole
World
affords
no
place
of
secresie
or
security
for
a
sinner
,
to
escape
the
observing
eye
,
and
righteous
hand
of
God
.
The
Uses
follow
in
these
Inferences
.
1.
Inference
.
If
this
be
so
,
then
time
,
place
,
and
opportunity
,
how
much
soever
they
seem
to
promise
secresie
and
concealment
,
should
never
further
a
temptation
to
sin
.
Suppose
all
circumstances
concurring
,
so
that
in
the
eye
of
Reason
,
you
seem
secured
from
the
shameful
consequences
of
sin
;
yet
methinks
the
consideration
of
this
truth
should
sufficiently
deter
you
from
a
wicked
purpose
.
Prov.
5.20
.
And
why
wilt
thou
,
my
son
,
he
ravished
with
a
strange
woman
?
And
imbrace
the
bosome
of
a
stranger
?
For
the
ways
of
a
man
are
before
the
eyes
of
the
Lord
,
and
he
pondereth
all
his
goings
.
There
be
four
things
which
strengthen
temptations
to
sin
;
and
particularly
the
sin
of
uncleanness
upon
Sea-men
.
First
,
The
absence
of
lawful
Remedies
.
Secondly
,
The
presence
of
alluring
objects
.
Thirdly
,
The
instigation
of
wicked
examples
.
Fourthly
,
And
the
hopes
of
concealment
,
being
remote
from
their
acquaintance
:
So
that
their
sins
,
in
probability
,
shall
never
disgrace
them
.
This
last
circumstance
is
not
the
least
:
O
how
many
hath
it
prevailed
upon
!
But
I
hope
you
will
never
yield
to
this
temptation
,
whose
heart
and
strength
is
broken
by
this
consideration
of
the
Eye
of
God
upon
you
.
A
chaste
Woman
being
once
sollicited
to
folly
,
told
him
that
sollicited
her
,
She
could
never
yield
to
the
motion
,
till
he
could
find
a
place
where
God
should
not
see
.
Nay
,
my
friends
,
it
should
do
more
than
restrain
you
from
the
gross
acts
of
of
sin
,
it
should
powerfully
curb
the
very
thoughts
and
first
motions
of
sin
in
your
hearts
.
That
was
the
use
holy
Job
made
of
this
truth
.
Job
31.1
,
4.
I
have
made
a
Covenant
with
mine
eyes
,
why
then
should
I
think
,
upon
a
Maid
?
Doth
he
not
see
my
ways
,
and
count
all
my
steps
?
Suppose
you
should
carry
your
wickedness
so
close
,
that
none
on
Earth
should
know
it
;
yet
the
Lord
sees
it
,
and
will
bring
it
into
judgment
;
and
your
own
Conscience
is
privy
to
it
.
I
pray
Sirs
tell
me
,
Is
it
not
a
great
comfort
to
a
malefactor
,
that
he
acted
his
crime
so
closely
,
that
none
but
the
Judge
,
and
one
authentick
witness
more
(
whose
testimony
is
as
good
as
a
thousand
)
beheld
it
?
Why
this
is
the
case
of
all
secret
sinners
.
But
to
press
home
this
great
and
necessary
truth
more
particularly
,
I
beseech
you
to
consider
.
1.
God
doth
not
only
behold
you
,
but
beholds
you
with
detestation
and
abhorrence
in
your
ways
of
iniquity
;
it
is
a
sight
that
grieves
him
to
the
heart
.
Gen.
6.5
,
6.
And
the
Lord
saw
the
wickedness
of
man
was
great
on
the
Earth
,
and
that
every
imagination
of
the
thoughts
of
his
heart
,
was
only
evil
continually
.
Here
was
wickedness
,
great
wickedness
breaking
out
externally
,
and
evil
,
only
evil
,
and
that
continually
working
internally
.
So
that
,
both
heart
and
life
were
evil
extensively
,
intensively
,
and
protensively
.
This
the
Lord
saw
,
and
how
it
affected
him
,
the
sixth
Verse
tells
you
.
And
it
repented
the
Lord
he
had
made
man
on
the
Earth
,
and
it
grieved
him
at
the
heart
.
Ah
it
cuts
him
to
the
heart
,
to
see
your
sinful
hearts
and
courses
.
Nothing
can
be
so
contrary
to
the
pure
and
holy
Nature
of
God
,
as
this
is
.
This
made
the
Prophet
admire
how
his
patience
could
indure
such
a
sight
.
Hab.
1.13
.
Thou
art
of
purer
eyes
than
to
behold
evil
,
and
canst
not
look
upon
iniquity
;
wherefore
lookest
thou
upon
,
them
that
deal
treacherously
?
&c.
As
if
he
should
say
,
Lord
how
canst
thou
behold
thy self
affronted
by
vile
Creatures
,
and
hold
thy
hands
from
avenging
it
?
O
the
stupendious
patience
of
God!
2.
It
doth
not
only
grieve
him
to
the
heart
,
but
it
puts
his
patience
to
the
greatest
tryal
and
exercise
in
beholding
it
.
Therefore
he
is
said
,
To
indure
with
much
long-suffering
.
Rom.
9.22
.
It
doth
,
as
it
were
,
create
a
conflict
betwixt
his
patience
and
justice
.
He
is
so
provoked
by
your
sin
,
that
he
expresses
it
as
a
difficulty
to
bear
it
.
Amos
2.13
.
I
am
pressed
under
you
,
as
a
Cart
is
pressed
that
is
full
of
Sheaves
.
Burthened
till
the
Axle-tree
of
infinite
Patience
,
be
ready
to
crack
under
the
weight
.
Nay
thirdly
,
He
doth
not
only
see
your
evils
,
but
he
Registers
and
Records
them
,
in
order
to
a
day
of
reckoning
with
you
for
all
together
,
except
ye
repent
.
Deut
.
32.34
.
Is
not
this
laid
up
in
store
with
me
,
and
sealed
up
among
my
Treasures
?
A
Metaphor
taken
from
the
Clerk
of
the
Assize
,
who
seals
up
the
Bag
of
Inditements
against
the
time
of
tryal
.
You
think
if
you
can
bl●●d
the
eyes
of
men
,
all
is
well
,
you
shall
hear
no
more
of
it
;
Ah
,
but
it
is
sealed
up
among
Gods
Treasures
,
(
i.e.
)
The
things
he
Records
and
reserves
for
the
day
of
account
.
4.
God
doth
not
only
see
you
,
but
he
will
also
one
day
make
you
see
your selves
,
and
your
ways
,
and
that
with
horror
and
consternation
.
You
think
you
shall
taste
nothing
but
the
sweet
and
pleasure
of
sin
;
but
how
are
you
deceived
?
The
days
are
coming
,
when
sin
that
is
now
pleasant
,
shall
be
turned
into
Wormwood
and
Gall
.
You
will
not
see
the
evil
of
it
,
and
,
because
you
see
it
not
,
you
think
God
doth
not
.
These
things
(
saith
God
)
hast
thou
done
,
and
I
kept
silence
;
and
thou
thoughtest
that
I
was
altogether
such
a
one
as
thy self
;
but
I
will
reprove
thee
,
and
set
them
in
order
before
thine
eyes
.
Psal
.
50.21
.
God
sees
them
now
,
and
he
will
make
you
see
them
too
,
by
opening
your
eyes
in
this
World
graciously
,
or
in
that
to
come
judicially
.
5.
God
doth
not
only
see
your
ways
,
but
he
will
make
all
the
World
see
them
too
.
For
,
there
is
nothing
hid
that
shall
not
be
revealed
,
nor
covered
,
that
shall
not
be
made
known
,
Matth
.
10.26
.
There
is
a
day
when
God
will
make
manifest
the
hidden
counsels
of
the
heart
,
2
Cor
.
4.5
.
When
that
which
hath
been
spoken
in
darkness
,
shall
be
heard
in
the
light
;
and
that
which
ye
have
spoken
in
the
ear
in
Closets
,
shall
be
proclaimed
upon
the
house
tops
,
Luk
.
12.3
.
Well
then
,
when
ever
the
occasions
and
opportunities
of
sin
are
presented
to
you
,
under
this
incouragement
of
Secresie
,
I
beseech
you
remember
this
truth
,
that
no
place
can
hide
you
from
the
Eye
of
God
.
He
sees
all
your
ways
,
yea
,
he
sees
them
with
abhorrence
;
the
sight
of
them
is
the
greatest
exercise
of
his
patience
:
His
sight
of
them
,
is
not
a
transient
glance
,
but
he
sees
and
records
your
evils
,
they
are
sealed
up
among
his
Treasures
:
He
sees
,
and
will
make
you
see
them
too
with
horror
,
when
he
shall
set
them
in
order
before
you
.
He
sees
them
,
and
will
make
Angels
and
Men
see
them
in
the
great
day
.
O
then
never
let
Secresie
any
more
incourage
you
to
sin
.
2.
Inference
.
What
prodigious
Sinners
must
they
be
,
that
seek
no
covert
for
their
sin
in
darkness
,
but
with
an
impudent
face
declare
,
yea
,
glory
in
their
shame
?
Who
are
not
ashamed
to
sin
openly
with
a
bare
face
,
and
a
Whores
forehead
?
These
are
sinners
of
the
first
magnitude
.
They
declare
their
sin
as
Sodom
,
and
hide
it
not
.
Isai
.
3.9
.
It
is
natural
to
man
to
indeavor
to
hide
his
sin
as
Adam
;
and
you
see
from
the
Text
,
guilty
sinners
fain
would
(
if
it
were
possible
)
flie
to
any
obscure
corner
from
the
observation
of
God
and
Men
;
and
it
is
a
Mercy
,
God
hath
planted
such
an
affection
,
as
shame
is
,
in
the
Soul
of
Man
,
to
be
a
Bridle
to
restrain
his
exorbitant
Lusts
.
But
yet
there
is
a
generation
of
monstrous
sinners
,
who
have
so
far
unmanned
themselves
,
That
they
are
not
at
all
ashamed
when
they
commit
abominations
,
neither
can
they
blush
.
Jer
.
6.15
.
If
there
be
any
remains
of
shame
left
in
them
,
they
exercise
it
upon
a
wrong
object
:
They
are
ashamed
of
that
which
would
be
their
glory
,
and
glory
in
that
which
is
their
shame
;
they
add
impudence
to
their
sin
,
and
blush
not
to
proclaim
that
which
others
study
to
conceal
.
Such
a
vile
temper
as
this
,
shews
a
man
even
ripe
for
wrath
;
he
hath
even
filled
up
his
measure
,
and
is
come
to
the
very
culminating
point
and
top
of
wickedness
.
There
be
some
men
arrived
to
such
a
degree
of
holiness
,
that
all
that
converse
with
them
,
judge
them
even
ripe
for
Heaven
:
They
speak
the
Dialect
,
and
have
the
very
savor
of
Heaven
upon
them
.
Others
are
come
to
such
a
prodigious
height
of
impiety
,
that
understanding
men
cannot
but
conclude
they
are
nigh
unto
damnation
;
they
speak
the
very
language
,
and
have
the
very
scent
of
Hell
upon
them
.
Such
are
they
that
openly
declare
their
sin
as
Sodom
,
and
glory
in
their
shame
.
Thus
we
see
some
Drunkards
will
glory
in
their
strength
,
to
pour
down
Wine
and
strong
Drink
,
and
can
boast
of
the
number
of
their
Cups
.
Some
Adulterers
can
glory
in
their
acts
of
wickedness
,
not
sufficing
themselves
to
damn
their
own
Souls
,
but
laboring
to
infect
and
corrupt
as
many
as
they
can
by
their
filthy
tongues
,
that
they
may
draw
them
into
the
same
misery
.
We
can
hardly
tell
how
to
screw
up
sin
one
peg
higher
than
this
.
First
to
practise
sin
,
then
defend
it
then
boast
of
it
.
Sin
is
first
a
Mans
burthen
,
next
his
custom
,
next
his
delight
,
and
then
his
excellency
.
Lord
,
whither
is
man
faln
!
that
holiness
should
ever
be
his
disgrace
,
and
sin
,
yea
,
the
vilest
of
sins
his
glory
!
O
the
power
of
Divine
Patience
!
3.
Inference
.
If
the
Eye
of
God
searches
every
obscure
corner
in
the
World
,
to
behold
the
evil
that
is
committed
there
;
then
certainly
the
Eye
of
God
cannot
but
look
into
every
secret
place
in
the
World
,
to
see
the
good
that
is
done
there
.
The
eyes
of
the
Lord
are
in
every
place
,
beholding
the
evil
,
and
the
good
.
Prov.
15.3
.
The
good
as
well
as
the
evil
,
yea
,
he
beholds
with
delight●…
the
good
done
in
secret
.
As
some
sinners
seek
corners
to
act
their
wickedness
in
,
and
cannot
satisfie
themselves
to
commit
sin
in
the
light
(
for
as
our
Saviour
saith
.
Joh
.
3.20
.
H●…
that
doth
evil
,
hateth
the
light
)
so
o●…
the
contrary
,
a
truly
godly
man
seeks
corners
to
pray
in
,
to
meditate
in
,
and
to
examine
his
own
heart
in
,
and
thinks
these
duties
of
godliness
can
never
be
managed
with
too
great
a
privacy
;
not
that
he
is
in
the
least
ashamed
of
his
duty
,
no
,
that
is
not
the
reason
,
but
he
is
afraid
of
hypocrisie
,
when
duties
lie
too
open
,
and
exposed
to
the
eyes
of
men
.
A
sinner
takes
his
full
liberty
to
vent
his
corruptions
,
when
he
can
do
it
in
secret
;
and
a
Saint
takes
his
full
liberty
to
vent
and
exercise
his
Graces
,
when
no
eye
but
the
Eye
of
God
sees
him
.
Thou
,
when
thou
prayest
(
saith
our
Saviour
)
enter
into
thy
Closet
,
and
shut
thy
door
,
and
pray
to
thy
Father
which
is
in
secret
,
and
thy
Father
(
which
seeth
in
secret
)
shall
reward
thee
openly
.
O
how
much
better
is
it
,
both
as
to
your
present
comfort
,
and
future
account
,
to
get
into
a
corner
to
pray
;
than
to
whore
,
or
drink
?
To
pour
out
your
Souls
to
God
graciously
,
than
to
pour
out
your
lusts
against
God
so
wickedly
?
How
contrary
are
the
principles
of
Grace
and
corruption
?
The
study
of
sinners
is
to
hide
their
evils
from
the
eyes
of
men
,
the
study
of
a
Saint
is
to
hide
his
duties
from
the
eyes
of
men
:
The
sinner
would
not
have
the
World
suspect
what
he
hath
been
about
,
nor
would
the
Saint
have
all
the
World
know
what
he
hath
been
about
.
The
way
of
an
Adulterer
is
as
the
way
of
an
Eagle
in
the
Air
,
or
as
a
Serpent
upon
a
Rock
.
(
i.e.
)
A
secret
way
,
where
they
leave
no
prints
or
tracks
behind
them
.
So
is
the
way
of
an
adulterous
Woman
,
she
eateth
and
wipeth
her
mouth
,
and
saith
,
I
have
done
no
wickedness
.
Prov.
30.19
,
20.
By
wiping
the
mouth
,
is
there
meant
Preventing
all
suspition
;
suffering
no
sign
of
the
action
to
remain
upon
them
:
So
contrarily
,
a
gracious
person
that
hath
been
with
God
in
secret
Prayer
,
or
Fasting
,
when
his
duty
is
ended
,
he
labors
to
avoid
all
ostentations
.
And
therefore
you
have
the
caution
from
Christ
,
Matth
.
6.17
,
18.
But
thou
,
when
thou
fastest
,
anoint
thy
head
,
and
wash
thy
face
;
that
thou
appear
not
unto
men
to
fast
,
but
unto
thy
Father
which
is
in
secret
.
The
meaning
is
,
carry
thy
private
duties
so
close
,
that
none
may
know
what
passeth
between
God
and
thee
:
When
thou
hast
been
entertained
in
secret
with
hidden
Manna
,
a
Feast
of
fat
things
,
wipe
thy
mouth
in
an
holy
sense
,
(
i
.
c
.
)
Wipe
off
suspition
of
hypocrisie
and
vanity
by
a
prudent
and
humble
concealment
.
Non
est
Religio
ubi
omnia
patent
.
Religion
doth
not
lay
all
open
,
as
we
say
;
as
sinners
have
their
secret
pleasures
,
their
stoln
Waters
which
are
sweet
to
them
:
So
the
Saints
have
their
secret
delights
in
God
,
their
hidden
Manna
,
which
no
man
knows
but
he
that
eateth
of
it
.
And
as
the
Eye
of
God
vindictively
beholds
the
one
,
so
it
delightfully
beholds
the
other
;
and
so
you
find
it
.
Cant
.
2.14
.
O
my
Dove
,
(
saith
Christ
to
the
Church
)
th●●
art
in
the
Clefts
of
the
Rocks
,
in
the
secret
places
of
the
Stairs
:
Let
me
see
thy
countenance
,
let
me
hear
thy
voice
;
for
sweet
is
thy
voice
,
and
thy
countenance
comely
.
Let
this
incourage
you
to
secret
duties
;
let
not
others
find
more
pleasure
in
secret
Lusts
,
than
you
can
do
in
God
and
secret
duties
.
4.
Inference
.
Doth
the
Eye
of
God
see
all
the
evil
and
wickedness
that
is
committed
in
all
the
secret
corners
of
the
World
,
how
admirable
then
is
the
Patience
of
God
towards
the
World
!
who
can
imagine
,
how
much
wickedness
is
secretly
practised
in
a
Town
,
or
City
every
day
?
Or
,
if
all
the
villanies
that
are
perpetrated
in
a
small
circumference
,
in
one
day
,
were
known
to
us
,
we
should
admire
,
that
God
doth
not
make
us
like
Sodom
,
for
judgment
and
desolation
before
the
next
day
:
What
then
are
the
innumerable
swarms
of
sin
,
which
are
as
the
Sand
upon
the
Sea-shore
,
from
all
the
parts
and
corners
of
the
Earth
!
Alass
,
there
is
not
the
ten
thousandth
part
of
the
grosser
sort
of
wickednesses
committed
in
the
World
,
that
ever
comes
to
our
eye
or
ear
;
and
if
it
did
,
we
cannot
estimate
the
evil
of
sin
,
as
God
doth
;
nor
feel
with
that
resentment
,
the
burthen
of
it
,
as
he
doth
;
and
yet
the
long-suffering
God
forbears
it
with
infinite
patience
.
Surely
his
power
was
not
more
discovered
in
making
the
World
,
than
it
is
in
forbearing
to
destroy
it
again
,
for
the
wiekedness
that
is
in
it
.
But
the
World
stands
for
the
Churches
sake
that
is
in
it
.
And
were
it
not
,
that
the
Lord
of
Hosts
had
left
unto
us
a
small
remnant
,
we
had
been
as
Sodom
,
we
had
been
like
unto
Gomorrah
,
Isai
.
1.9
.
There
is
also
an
elect
remnant
to
be
called
and
gathered
by
the
Gospel
,
out
of
it
,
in
their
several
generations
;
and
when
that
number
shall
be
accomplished
,
God
will
set
fire
to
the
Four
quarters
of
it
,
and
it
shall
lie
in
white
Ashes
;
till
then
,
the
long-suffering
of
God
waiteth
.
5.
Inference
.
If
God
see
all
the
secret
wickedness
that
is
committed
in
every
corner
of
the
World
;
how
clear
is
it
,
that
there
is
a
judgment
to
come
,
and
that
this
judgment
will
be
exact
?
That
there
is
a
judgment
to
come
is
by
this
manifest
,
that
there
is
abundance
of
sin
committed
in
the
World
,
which
never
comes
to
light
here
,
nor
never
will
in
this
World
.
It
is
true
,
some
mens
sins
are
open
,
and
the
judgments
of
God
upon
them
are
as
open
,
but
it
is
not
so
with
all
.
The
Apostle
saith
,
1
Tim
.
5.24
.
Some
mens
sins
are
open
before-hand
,
going
before-hand
to
Judgment
,
and
some
mens
,
they
follow
after
.
Some
mens
sins
are
written
as
it
were
in
their
foreheads
,
every
one
fees
them
,
but
others
follow
after
,
are
not
discovered
till
the
day
of
the
revelation
of
the
secrets
of
all
hearts
;
and
then
that
which
is
now
done
in
closets
shall
be
proclaimed
as
upon
the
housetops
:
though
they
were
never
put
to
shame
for
their
sins
in
the
places
where
they
committed
them
,
yet
God
will
shame
them
,
before
Men
and
Angels
.
This
is
the
day
to
judge
secrets
.
1
Cor
.
4.5
.
And
,
as
it
is
certain
,
there
will
be
such
a
judgment
,
so
it
is
certain
this
judgment
will
be
exact
;
for
the
Judge
of
all
hath
seen
all
:
Whatever
he
charges
any
Man
with
,
hath
been
acted
before
his
face
.
Psal
.
90.8
.
Thou
settest
our
secret
sins
in
the
light
of
thy
countenance
.
Here
can
be
no
mistake
,
the
Omniscient
God
will
judge
for
what
he
hath
seen
;
For
his
eyes
are
upon
the
ways
of
man
,
and
he
seeth
all
his
goings
,
for
he
will
not
lay
upon
man
more
than
right
,
that
he
should
enter
into
judgment
with
God
.
The
meaning
is
,
he
cannot
mistake
in
his
judgment
,
being
Omniscient
,
and
having
seen
all
the
ways
of
man
;
so
that
there
can
be
no
plea
offered
by
any
man
for
a
reverse
of
his
sentence
.
O
then
let
us
be
exact
and
careful
,
as
well
in
our
secret
as
in
our
open
actions
;
for
God
shall
bring
every
work
into
judgment
,
with
every
secret
thing
,
whether
it
be
good
,
or
whether
it
be
evil
.
Eccles
.
12.
ult
.
6.
Inference
.
Lastly
,
If
the
Eye
of
God
be
in
every
place
upon
us
,
and
all
our
Actions
:
Then
let
those
whose
condition
of
life
,
hath
sent
them
out
of
the
eyes
and
observations
of
their
Parents
and
Masters
,
keep
the
sense
of
Gods
Eye
upon
their
hearts
,
as
ever
they
would
escape
sin
and
ruine
.
It
is
no
small
advantage
to
young
unprincipled
persons
,
to
live
under
the
Discipline
of
pious
and
careful
Governors
;
but
it
often
falls
out
,
that
they
are
early
Transplanted
into
another
Soyl
,
sent
into
Foreign
Countreys
in
order
to
their
Education
or
Imployment
;
and
as
often
are
there
corrupted
and
debauched
by
the
evil
examples
of
the
places
where
they
reside
,
they
learn
another
Language
or
drive
another
Trade
than
that
their
Parents
or
Masters
designed
them
for
.
But
if
the
sense
of
this
great
Truth
,
might
accompany
them
where-ever
they
are
,
O
what
a
Soveraign
Antidote
would
it
prove
against
those
deadly
Poysons
of
Temptations
!
This
alone
would
be
a
sufficient
Preservative
.
If
our
Children
and
Servants
have
but
the
awful
sense
of
Gods
Eye
upon
them
,
we
may
turn
them
loose
in
the
wide
World
without
fear
.
If
Providence
shall
direct
this
discourse
to
your
hands
,
my
Hearts
desire
and
prayer
for
you
is
,
That
the
Spirit
of
the
Lord
would
imprint
this
great
Truth
upon
your
hearts
.
And
I
am
the
more
moved
to
ind●avor
your
Preservation
,
upon
the
consideration
of
the
apparent
danger
you
are
in
,
and
the
manifold
disappointments
and
mischiefs
that
must
unavoidably
follow
the
corrupting
of
your
tender
years
.
The
danger
you
are
in
is
great
,
whether
you
consider
First
,
The
infecting
catching
nature
of
sin
.
No
Plague
is
more
infectious
and
insinuating
than
sin
is
.
Many
are
the
wiles
,
devices
,
stratagems
,
and
baits
,
Satan
lays
to
draw
you
into
sin
,
2
Cor
.
2.11
.
Or
Secondly
,
The
pronity
that
is
in
your
own
Nature
,
to
close
with
the
offers
and
temptations
that
you
are
tried
with
,
it
is
as
great
a
wonder
,
if
you
escape
,
as
that
one
that
lives
in
a
Pesthouse
,
should
remain
healthy
;
or
that
dry
Tinder
should
not
catch
,
when
thousands
of
sparks
flie
about
it
,
and
light
upon
it
.
Or
Thirdly
,
The
absence
of
all
those
means
by
which
you
have
formerly
been
preserved
from
sin
.
You
are
now
without
the
Ordinances
of
God
,
the
Family
Duties
,
the
Admonitions
,
Counsels
,
Examples
,
and
Observations
of
your
Parents
,
Masters
,
and
Friends
:
All
which
have
been
of
great
use
to
keep
you
from
sin
,
and
repress
the
vanities
of
youth
.
Or
lastly
,
Fourthly
,
The
manifold
furtherances
to
Temptations
which
your
Age
affords
,
Childhood
and
Youth
are
vanity
.
Inconsiderateness
,
rashness
,
injudiciousness
,
and
the
want
of
experience
,
do
all
cast
you
into
the
very
snare
.
See
how
the
Holy
Ghost
hath
signified
the
danger
of
persons
at
your
age
,
in
Prov.
7.7
.
All
these
things
do
greatly
indanger
you
.
And
if
any
,
or
all
of
them
together
,
prevail
to
the
vitiating
and
corrupting
of
you
,
then
what
a
train
of
sad
consequences
will
follow
upon
it
!
For
first
,
1.
The
Great
God
will
be
dishonored
and
reproached
by
you
,
even
that
God
whose
distinguishing
Mercies
are
now
before
your
eyes
,
and
should
be
admired
by
you
.
That
caused
you
to
spring
up
in
a
better
soil
,
and
not
from
Idolaters
in
a
Land
of
Darkness
.
2.
Conscience
will
be
wounded
and
polluted
with
guilt
;
and
though
at
present
you
feel
not
the
remorse
and
gnawings
of
it
,
yet
now
you
are
preparing
for
it
.
The
sins
of
youth
,
are
complaints
and
sorrows
of
old
age
.
Job
13.26
.
3.
The
hearts
of
your
Friends
(
if
Godly
)
will
be
grieved
and
greatly
troubled
,
to
find
their
expectations
and
hopes
disappointed
;
and
all
those
Prayers
for
you
,
and
Counsels
bestowed
on
you
to
come
to
nothing
.
If
an
unequal
match
by
Esau
was
such
a
grief
of
heart
to
Isaac
and
Rebecca
,
what
will
prophaness
and
uncleanness
be
to
your
Parents
?
Gen.
26.34
.
4.
The
serviceableness
and
comfort
of
your
whole
life
,
will
in
all
probability
be
destroyed
by
the
corruption
of
your
youth
.
If
Blossoms
be
withered
,
and
Buds
nipt
,
what
Fruit
can
be
expected
?
To
conclude
,
5.
Your
precious
and
immortal
Souls
are
hazarded
to
all
Eternity
.
And
what
shall
it
profit
a
man
to
gain
the
whole
World
,
and
lose
his
own
soul
;
or
,
what
shall
a
man
give
in
exchange
for
his
soul
?
Matth
.
16.26
.
All
this
mischief
may
be
happily
prevented
by
the
serious
consideration
of
this
point
,
you
have
now
been
reading
.
For
if
God
shall
fix
that
Truth
in
your
Hearts
by
Faith
,
then
First
,
Instead
of
running
with
others
into
the
same
excess
of
riot
,
you
will
keep
your selves
pure
and
unspotted
in
an
unclean
defiling
World
.
You
will
answer
all
temptations
to
sin
,
as
Joseph
,
did
Gen.
39.9
.
How
can
I
do
this
great
wickedness
,
and
sin
against
God
.
Secondly
,
Instead
of
joyning
with
others
in
sin
,
you
will
mourn
for
the
sins
of
others
.
You
will
say
with
David
,
Psal
.
120.5
.
Wo
is
me
,
that
I
sojourn
in
Mesheck
,
that
I
dwell
in
the
Tents
of
Kedar
.
Your
soul
,
like
Lots
,
will
be
vexed
from
day
to
day
with
the
filthy
conversations
of
the
wicked
.
2
Pet
.
1.17
,
18.
Thirdly
,
Instead
of
returning
to
your
Countrey
with
a
wounded
name
and
conscience
,
you
will
return
full
of
inward
Comfort
and
Peace
,
and
to
the
joy
of
all
your
Friends
and
Relations
.
Fourthly
,
To
conclude
,
you
will
give
fair
incouragements
to
the
expectations
of
all
that
know
you
,
of
becoming
useful
instruments
for
the
glory
of
God
,
and
benefit
of
the
World
in
your
Generation
.
O
therefore
beg
of
God
,
that
this
Truth
may
be
deeply
ingraven
upon
your
Hearts
.
THE
Successful
Sea-man
.
SERMON
IV
.
Deut
.
8.17
,
18.
And
thou
say
in
thine
heart
,
my
power
,
and
the
might
of
my
hand
hath
gotten
me
this
wealth
:
But
thou
shalt
remember
the
Lord
thy
God
,
for
it
is
he
that
giveth
thee
power
to
get
wealth
.
THis
Context
contains
a
necessary
and
very
seasonable
Caution
to
the
Israelites
,
who
were
now
passing
out
of
their
Wilderness-straits
into
the
rich
and
fruitful
Land
of
Canaan
,
which
abounded
with
all
Earthly
Blessings
and
Comforts
.
Now
when
the
Lord
was
about
to
give
them
possession
of
this
good
Land
,
he
first
gives
them
some
wholesome
Caveats
to
prevent
the
abuse
of
these
Mercies
.
He
knew
how
apt
they
were
to
forget
him
in
a
prosperous
estate
,
and
ascribe
all
their
comfortable
fruitions
to
their
own
prudence
and
valor
;
to
prevent
this
,
he
reminds
them
of
their
former
estate
,
and
warns
them
about
their
future
estate
.
He
reminds
them
of
their
former
condition
whilest
they
subsisted
upon
his
immediate
care
in
the
Wilderness
.
Vers
.
15
,
16.
Who
led
thee
through
the
great
and
terrible
Wilderness
,
wherein
were
fiery
Serpents
,
and
Scorpions
,
and
Drought
,
where
there
was
no
Water
;
here
were
their
dangers
and
wants
.
Who
brought
thee
forth
Water
out
of
the
Rock
of
Flint
,
who
fed
thee
in
the
Wilderness
with
Manna
,
which
thy
Fathers
knew
not
;
here
were
their
supplies
in
these
straits
.
That
he
might
humble
thee
,
and
that
he
might
prove
thee
,
to
do
thee
good
at
thy
latter
end
;
here
was
the
wise
and
gracious
design
of
God
in
all
this
.
But
wherein
did
God
humble
them
by
feeding
them
with
Manna
?
Were
they
not
shrewdly
humbled
(
saith
Mr.
Gurnal
,
Vol.
2.
p.
345.
an
ingenious
Author
)
to
be
fed
with
such
a
dainty
dish
,
which
had
God
for
its
Cook
,
and
was
called
Angels
food
for
its
delicacy
?
It
was
not
the
meanness
of
the
fare
,
but
the
manner
of
having
it
,
by
which
God
intended
to
humble
them
.
The
food
was
excellent
,
but
they
had
it
from
hand
to
mouth
;
so
that
God
kept
the
Key
of
their
Cupboard
,
they
stood
to
his
immediate
allowance
.
This
was
an
humbling
way
.
But
now
the
dispensation
of
Providence
was
just
upon
the
change
,
they
were
going
to
a
Land
where
they
should
eat
Bread
without
scarceness
,
Ver
.
9.
And
have
their
comforts
in
a
more
natural
stated
and
sensible
way
;
and
now
would
be
the
danger
.
Therefore
He
not
only
reminds
them
of
their
former
estate
,
but
in
this
Text
,
Cautions
them
about
their
future
estate
,
Say
not
in
thy
heart
,
my
power
,
or
the
might
of
my
hand
hath
gotten
me
this
wealth
,
&c.
In
this
Caution
we
have
these
two
things
especially
to
observe
,
1.
The
false
cause
of
their
prosperity
removed
.
2.
The
true
and
proper
cause
thereof
asserted
.
1.
The
false
cause
removed
:
Not
their
power
,
or
the
might
of
their
hand
.
That
is
said
to
be
gotten
by
the
hand
,
that
is
gotten
by
our
wisdom
,
as
well
as
labor
:
Head-work
and
wit-work
,
is
hand-work
in
the
sense
of
this
Text
.
It
cannot
be
denied
,
but
they
were
a
great
people
,
prudent
,
industrious
,
and
had
an
excellent
polity
among
them
:
But
yet
,
though
they
had
all
these
natural
external
means
of
inriching
themselves
in
that
fertile
soyl
,
God
will
by
no
means
allow
them
to
ascribe
their
Success
and
Wealth
to
any
of
these
causes
;
for
alass
,
what
are
all
these
without
his
Blessing
?
2.
The
true
and
proper
cause
asserted
.
It
is
the
Lord
that
gives
thee
power
to
get
wealth
,
(
i.e.
All
thy
care
,
labor
,
wisdom
,
strength
,
signifies
nothing
without
him
;
it
is
not
your
pains
,
but
his
blessing
that
makes
your
designs
to
prosper
:
And
therefore
in
all
your
prosperity
,
still
acknowledge
him
as
the
Author
of
all
.
Hence
note
.
Doctr
.
That
the
Prosperity
and
Success
of
our
Affairs
,
is
not
to
be
ascribed
to
our
own
abilities
,
but
to
the
Blessing
of
God
upon
our
lawful
indeavors
.
We
find
two
Proverbs
in
one
Chapter
that
seem
to
differ
in
the
account
they
give
of
this
matter
;
and
indeed
they
do
but
seem
so
.
It
is
said
in
Prov.
10.4
.
The
hand
of
the
diligent
maketh
rich
.
Ascribing
riches
and
prosperity
to
humane
diligence
.
And
Vers
.
22.
The
blessing
of
the
Lord
,
it
maketh
rich
.
But
these
two
are
not
really
opposed
to
each
other
,
but
the
one
subordinated
to
the
other
.
The
diligent
hand
with
Gods
blessing
upon
it
,
makes
rich
;
neither
of
them
alone
,
Faith
must
not
stifle
industry
,
nor
industry
blind
Faith
.
but
both
conjoyned
.
A
diligent
hand
cannot
make
rich
without
Gods
blessing
;
and
Gods
blessing
doth
not
ordinarily
make
rich
without
a
diligent
han●
And
these
two
are
put
together
in
their
proper
places
.
1
Chro
.
22.16
.
Up
and
be
doing
,
and
the
Lord
be
with
you
.
It
is
a
vain
pretence
for
any
man
to
say
,
If
the
Lord
be
with
me
,
I
may
sit
still
,
and
do
nothing
;
and
a
wicked
one
to
say
,
If
I
am
up
and
doing
,
I
shall
prosper
whether
God
be
with
me
,
or
no
.
The
Sluggard
would
fain
prosper
without
diligence
;
and
the
Atheist
hopes
to
prosper
by
his
diligence
alone
:
But
Christians
expect
their
prosperity
from
Gods
Blessing
,
in
the
way
of
honest
diligence
.
It
is
a
common
thing
for
men
to
benum
their
own
arms
,
and
make
them
as
dead
and
useless
by
leaning
too
much
upon
them
:
So
it
is
in
a
Moral
,
as
well
as
Natural
way
.
All
the
prudence
and
pains
in
the
World
avail
nothing
without
God
.
So
saith
the
Psalmist
,
in
Psal
.
127.2
.
It
is
in
vain
for
you
to
rise
up
early
,
to
sit
up
late
,
to
eat
the
bread
of
sorrows
,
for
so
he
giveth
his
beloved
sleep
.
A
Man
would
think
he
that
rises
betime
,
fares
hard
,
works
hard
,
sits
up
late
,
cannot
but
be
a
thriving
man
,
and
probably
he
would
be
so
,
if
Gods
blessing
did
second
his
diligence
and
frugality
.
But
the
Psalmist
intends
it
of
diligence
in
a
separate
sense
:
A
diligent
hand
working
alone
,
and
then
it
is
all
in
vain
,
and
serves
only
to
confirm
the
common
Proverb
,
Early
up
,
and
never
the
nearer
.
Labor
without
God
cannot
prosper
;
and
labor
against
God
will
not
only
destroy
it self
,
but
the
laborer
to
boot
.
Now
,
that
this
is
really
so
,
as
the
Doctrine
states
it
,
I
shall
indeavor
to
make
it
evident
.
-
1.
By
a
General
Demonstration
of
the
whole
Matter
.
-
2.
By
a
Particular
Enumeration
of
the
ordinary
Causes
and
Means
of
all
Success
;
which
are
all
dependent
things
upon
the
Lords
Blessing
.
First
,
That
Success
in
Business
is
not
in
the
power
of
our
Hand
;
but
in
the
Hand
of
Providence
,
to
dispose
it
as
he
pleases
,
and
to
whom
he
pleases
,
appears
by
this
.
That
Providence
sometimes
blasts
and
frustrates
the
most
prudent
,
and
well-laid
designs
of
Men
;
and
in
the
mean
time
,
succeeds
and
prospers
more
weak
and
improbable
ones
.
What
is
more
common
in
the
observation
of
all
ages
,
than
this
?
One
Man
shall
toil
,
as
in
the
fire
,
for
very
vanity
;
run
to
and
fro
,
plot
and
study
all
the
ways
in
the
World
to
get
an
estate
,
deny
back
and
belly
,
and
all
will
not
do
:
He
shall
never
be
able
to
attain
what
he
strives
after
,
but
his
designs
shall
be
still
fruitless
.
Another
hath
neither
an
head
to
contrive
,
nor
an
hand
to
labor
as
the
former
hath
;
nor
doth
he
torture
his
brains
about
it
,
but
manages
his
affairs
with
less
judgment
,
and
spends
fewer
thoughts
about
it
,
and
yet
Success
follows
it
.
It
shall
be
cast
in
upon
some
,
who
as
they
did
not
,
so
(
considering
the
weak
management
of
their
business
)
had
little
rational
incouragement
to
expect
it
;
and
flie
from
others
,
who
industriously
pursue
it
in
the
prudent
choice
and
diligent
use
of
all
the
proper
means
of
attaining
it
.
And
this
is
not
only
an
observation
grounded
upon
our
own
experience
,
but
confirmed
by
the
wisest
of
Men
.
Eccles
.
9.11
.
I
returned
,
and
saw
under
the
Sun
,
that
the
race
is
not
to
the
swift
,
nor
the
battle
to
the
strong
;
neither
yet
bread
to
the
wise
,
nor
yet
riches
to
men
of
understanding
;
nor
yet
favor
to
men
of
skill
,
but
time
and
chance
hapneth
to
them
all
.
If
two
men
run
for
a
prize
,
Reason
gives
the
prize
to
the
swiftest
;
if
two
Armies
joyn
battle
,
Reason
gives
the
victory
to
the
strongest
;
if
two
men
undertake
a
design
to
get
wealth
,
Reason
gives
the
riches
to
the
wisest
;
yea
,
but
Providence
sometimes
disposes
it
quite
contrary
to
the
verdict
of
Reason
;
and
the
prize
is
given
to
the
slowest
,
the
v●ctory
to
the
weakest
,
the
estate
to
the
more
shallow
capacity
:
So
that
these
events
seem
to
fall
out
rather
casually
,
than
answerably
to
the
means
imployed
about
them
:
And
who
that
observes
this
,
can
doubt
,
but
it
is
the
Hand
of
Gods
Providence
,
and
not
our
diligence
that
disposes
the
issues
of
these
things
.
For
why
doth
God
so
often
step
out
of
the
ordinary
way
,
and
cross
his
hands
as
old
Israel
did
,
laying
the
right
hand
upon
upon
the
younger
,
and
the
left
upon
the
elder
:
I
mean
,
Success
to
the
weak
,
and
disappointment
to
the
strong
,
but
to
convince
us
of
this
great
truth
which
I
here
bring
it
to
confirm
?
And
because
men
are
so
apt
to
sacrifice
to
their
own
Prudence
,
and
disown
Providence
:
Therefore
it
sometimes
makes
the
case
much
plainer
than
so
.
It
denies
riches
to
the
Industrious
that
live
for
no
other
end
but
to
get
them
,
and
casts
them
in
upon
those
that
seek
them
not
at
all
,
and
indeed
are
scarcely
competent
for
business
.
Aristides
,
one
of
the
wisest
men
of
his
age
,
was
yet
still
so
poor
,
that
Plutarch
said
,
it
brought
a
slur
upon
Justice
it self
,
as
if
she
were
not
able
to
maintain
her
followers
.
Socrates
,
one
of
the
prime
Grecian
Sages
was
so
exceeding
poor
,
that
Apuleius
could
not
but
note
,
That
Poverty
was
become
an
Inmate
with
Philosophy
;
Paupertas
est
Philosophiae
vernacula
.
when
in
the
mean
time
,
the
empty
,
shallow
,
and
foolish
,
shall
come
up
with
it
,
and
overtake
it
without
any
pains
at
all
,
which
others
prosecute
in
the
most
rational
course
all
their
life
,
and
all
to
no
purpose
.
Thus
it
is
noted
of
Pope
Clement
the
Fifth
,
Epitom
.
Hist
.
Gallic
.
None
more
rich
,
none
more
foolish
.
And
this
is
the
ground
of
that
Proverb
.
Fortuna
favet
fatuos
;
Fortune
favors
fools
.
Though
the
Author
of
that
Proverb
,
in
nicknaming
Providence
,
shewed
as
little
wisdom
as
he
that
is
the
Subject
of
it
.
By
all
which
,
this
point
is
in
the
General
made
good
;
it
is
not
Industry
,
but
Providence
,
that
directs
and
commands
the
Success
of
Business
:
It
being
much
in
the
attaining
of
riches
,
as
the
Apostle
saith
it
is
,
in
the
obtaining
of
Righteousness
.
The
Gentiles
which
followed
not
after
righteousness
have
attained
to
righteousness
;
but
Israel
which
followed
after
the
Law
of
Righteousness
,
hath
not
attained
to
the
Law
of
Righteousness
.
Rom.
9.30
,
31.
So
it
is
here
for
the
vindication
of
the
honor
of
Providence
,
which
men
would
scarcely
own
,
if
it
did
not
thus
baffle
them
sometimes
.
They
that
follow
the
World
,
cannot
attain
it
,
and
they
attain
it
,
that
follow
it
not
;
that
all-men
may
see
their
good
is
not
in
their
own
hand
,
and
lest
man
who
is
not
only
a
covetous
Creature
,
and
would
ingross
all
to
himself
,
but
as
proud
as
covetous
,
and
so
should
ascribe
all
to
himself
.
But
this
will
farther
appear
Secondly
,
By
a
particular
enumeration
of
the
ordinary
Causes
and
Means
of
all
success
in
business
,
which
are
all
dependent
things
upon
an
higher
cause
.
Now
,
if
we
proceed
upon
a
rational
account
,
we
shall
find
five
things
required
to
the
success
of
our
affairs
;
and
that
I
may
speak
to
your
capacity
,
I
will
instance
in
that
affair
of
Merchandising
,
in
which
,
you
are
imployed
as
the
hands
that
execute
what
the
heads
of
your
Merchants
contrive
;
and
will
shew
you
,
that
neither
their
wisdom
in
contriving
,
nor
your
skill
and
industry
in
managing
their
designs
can
prosper
without
the
leave
and
blessing
of
Divine
Providence
.
Let
us
therefore
consider
what
is
necessary
to
the
raising
of
an
estate
in
that
way
of
imployment
;
and
you
will
find
that
in
a
rational
and
ordinary
way
,
Success
cannot
be
expected
,
unless
1.
The
designs
and
projects
be
prudently
laid
,
and
moulded
with
much
consideration
and
foresight
.
An
error
here
is
like
an
error
in
the
first
concoction
,
which
is
not
to
be
rectified
afterwards
.
The
wisdom
of
the
prudent
(
saith
Solomon
)
is
to
understand
his
way
;
that
is
,
To
understand
and
throughly
to
consider
the
particular
design
and
business
in
which
he
is
to
ingage
.
Rashness
and
inconsiderateness
here
,
hath
been
the
ruine
of
many
thousand
enterprises
.
And
if
a
design
be
never
so
well
laid
,
yet
2.
No
success
in
business
can
be
rationally
expected
,
except
there
be
an
election
of
proper
instruments
to
manage
it
.
The
best
laid
design
in
the
World
,
may
be
spoiled
by
an
ill
management
.
If
the
persons
imployed
,
be
either
uncapable
or
unfaithful
,
what
but
trouble
and
disappointment
can
be
expected
?
He
that
sendeth
a
message
(
saith
Solomon
)
by
the
hands
of
a
fool
,
cutteth
off
the
legs
,
and
drinketh
damage
.
It
is
as
if
a
man
should
send
him
on
his
business
that
hath
no
legs
to
go
,
(
i.e.
)
one
that
is
incompetent
for
the
business
he
is
imployed
about
.
All
that
a
man
shall
reap
from
such
a
design
,
is
damage
.
And
if
the
instrument
imployed
be
never
so
capable
,
yet
if
he
be
not
also
faithful
to
the
trust
committed
to
him
,
all
is
lost
:
And
such
is
the
depth
of
deceit
in
the
hearts
of
men
,
that
few
or
none
can
be
secured
against
it
.
Solomon
was
the
wisest
of
men
,
and
yet
fatally
miscarried
in
this
matter
.
He
seeing
the
young
man
(
Jeroboam
)
that
he
was
a
mighty
man
of
valor
,
and
that
he
was
industrious
,
made
him
Ruler
over
all
the
charge
of
the
house
of
Joseph
,
1
King
.
11.28
.
And
this
was
the
Man
that
rent
the
Kingdom
from
his
Son
,
even
Ten
Tribes
from
the
House
of
David
.
And
yet
3.
Let
designs
be
projected
with
the
greatest
prudence
,
and
committed
to
the
management
of
the
fittest
instruments
;
all
is
nothing
as
to
Success
,
without
the
concurrence
of
health
,
strength
,
favorable
Winds
,
security
from
the
hands
of
enemies
,
and
perils
of
the
deeps
.
If
any
of
these
be
wanting
,
the
design
miscarries
,
and
all
our
projects
fail
.
How
often
are
hopeful
and
thriving
undertakements
frustrated
by
the
failer
of
any
one
of
these
perquisits
?
Go
to
now
ye
that
say
,
to
day
or
to
morrow
,
we
will
go
unto
such
a
City
,
and
remain
there
a
year
,
and
buy
and
sell
,
and
get
gain
;
whereas
ye
know
not
what
shall
be
on
the
morrow
;
for
what
is
your
life
?
It
is
even
a
vapor
that
appeareth
for
a
little
while
,
and
then
vanisheth
away
.
Jam
.
4.13
,
14.
How
soon
are
the
purposes
of
mens
hearts
broken
off
,
and
their
thoughts
perish
in
one
day
?
They
think
to
send
or
go
to
such
a
place
,
and
there
inrich
themselves
,
and
return
prosperous
;
but
sometimes
death
,
sometimes
captivity
,
and
sometimes
cross
Winds
dash
all
their
hopes
.
4.
Proper
Seasons
must
be
nickt
,
and
hit
,
else
all
success
and
expectation
of
increase
is
lost
.
There
is
(
saith
Solomon
)
a
season
for
every
thing
,
and
a
time
to
every
purpose
under
the
Sun.
Eccles
.
3.1
.
This
being
taken
,
gives
facility
and
speedy
dispatch
to
a
business
;
and
therefore
he
gives
this
reason
,
why
man
miscarries
so
frequently
,
and
is
disappointed
in
his
enterprises
,
because
he
knows
not
the
time
.
Eccles
.
9.11
.
He
comes
(
as
one
saith
)
when
the
Bird
is
flown
.
It
is
a
wise
and
weighty
Proverb
with
the
Greeks
,
That
there
is
much
time
in
a
short
opportunity
.
That
is
,
a
man
hitting
the
season
of
a
business
,
may
do
more
in
a
day
,
than
loosing
it
,
he
may
be
able
to
do
in
a
year
.
This
is
of
a
special
consideration
in
all
Humane
affairs
,
and
is
the
very
hinge
upon
which
Success
turns
:
So
that
to
come
before
,
is
to
pluck
Apples
before
they
are
ripe
,
and
to
come
after
it
,
is
to
seek
them
when
they
are
faln
and
perished
.
5.
Lastly
,
In
getting
wealth
,
the
Leaks
in
our
Estates
must
be
stopped
;
else
we
do
but
put
it
into
a
Bag
with
holes
,
as
the
Prophets
phrase
is
in
Hag
.
1.6
.
If
a
man
loose
as
much
one
way
,
as
he
gets
another
,
there
can
be
no
increase
.
Hence
it
is
,
that
many
are
kept
low
and
poor
all
their
days
:
If
one
design
prospers
,
yet
another
miscarries
;
or
,
if
all
succeed
well
abroad
,
yet
there
is
a
secret
consumption
of
it
at
home
,
by
prodigality
,
riot
,
luxury
,
or
a
secret
curse
upon
it
,
which
the
Scripture
calls
Gods
blowing
upon
it
.
Hag
.
1.9
.
If
therefore
by
any
of
these
ways
,
our
gains
moulder
away
,
we
do
but
disquiet
our selves
in
vain
,
and
labor
in
the
fire
for
very
vanity
.
Thus
you
see
what
things
are
requisit
to
the
advancement
of
an
estate
,
upon
a
prudential
account
.
Now
let
us
particularly
observe
,
what
a
dependence
here
is
upon
Providence
in
all
these
things
;
and
then
it
will
be
clear
,
that
our
Good
is
not
in
our
hand
,
nor
Success
at
our
beck
,
but
it
is
the
Lord
that
gives
us
power
to
get
wealth
.
For
,
As
to
the
moulding
and
projecting
of
a
design
,
we
may
say
,
both
of
the
prudent
Merchant
and
ingenious
Sea-man
,
what
the
Prophet
doth
of
the
Husbandman
.
Isai
.
28.16
.
It
is
his
God
that
instructeth
him
to
discretion
,
and
teacheth
him
:
There
is
indeed
a
Spirit
in
Man
,
But
it
is
the
inspiration
of
the
Almighty
that
giveth
understanding
.
Job
32.8
.
The
Faculty
is
Mans
,
but
the
Light
of
Wisdom
,
whether
Natural
or
Spiritual
,
is
Gods
:
And
the
Natural
Faculty
is
of
it self
,
no
more
capable
of
directing
us
in
our
Affairs
without
his
teaching
,
than
the
Dial
is
to
inform
us
of
hours
without
the
Suns
shining
upon
it
.
And
because
Men
are
so
dull
in
apprehending
and
backward
in
acknowledging
it
,
but
will
lean
to
their
own
understandings
.
Thence
it
is
,
that
prudent
designs
are
so
often
blasted
,
and
weaker
ones
succeeded
.
And
no
less
doth
Providence
manifest
it self
in
directing
to
,
and
prospering
the
means
and
instruments
imployed
in
our
business
.
It
is
of
the
Lord
,
that
they
prove
ingenious
,
active
and
faithful
Servants
to
us
;
that
your
Factors
abroad
,
prove
not
Malefactors
to
you
;
that
every
design
is
not
ruined
by
the
negligence
,
ignorance
,
or
treachery
of
them
that
manage
it
.
If
God
qualifie
Men
to
be
fit
instruments
to
serve
you
,
and
then
providentially
direct
you
to
them
,
his
hand
is
thankfully
to
be
owned
in
both
.
It
was
no
small
mercy
to
Abraham
,
that
he
had
so
discreet
,
pious
,
and
faithful
a
Servant
to
manage
even
his
weightiest
Affairs
,
so
prudently
and
prosperously
for
him
.
Laban
,
Pharaoh
,
and
Jethro
,
never
prospered
,
as
when
Jacob
,
Joseph
,
and
Moses
,
had
the
charge
of
their
business
.
Laban
ingenuously
acknowledged
,
That
he
had
learned
by
experience
,
the
Lord
hath
blessed
him
for
Jacobs
sake
.
Gen.
30.27
.
A
Heathen
you
see
is
more
ingenuous
in
owning
the
Mercy
of
God
to
him
in
this
case
,
than
many
professed
Christians
are
,
who
sacrifice
all
to
their
own
Net
,
and
burn
Incense
to
their
Drag
,
(
i.e.
)
Idolize
the
means
and
instruments
of
their
Prosperity
,
and
see
nothing
of
God
in
it
.
And
then
as
to
the
preservation
of
those
that
go
down
into
the
Sea
,
to
do
our
business
in
the
great
Waters
;
who
can
but
acknowledge
this
to
be
the
peculiar
Work
of
God
?
Doth
not
daily
experience
shew
how
often
poor
Sea-men
are
cut
off
in
the
prosecution
of
our
designs
?
Sometimes
by
sickness
,
sometimes
by
storms
,
and
sometimes
by
Enemies
,
to
whom
they
become
a
prey
.
If
they
escape
all
these
,
yet
how
often
do
they
lie
Wind-bound
,
or
hindered
by
cross
accidents
,
till
the
proper
Season
be
over
,
and
the
design
lost
;
certainly
,
if
Providence
shall
so
far
favor
any
man
,
as
to
prevent
all
these
,
to
command
Winds
fit
for
their
purpose
,
restrain
Enemies
,
preserve
Life
,
and
carry
them
safely
and
seasonably
to
their
Ports
,
it
deserves
a
thankful
acknowledgment
;
and
those
that
do
not
acknowledge
Providence
,
do
disoblige
it
.
Lastly
,
Who
is
it
that
stops
the
Leaks
in
your
Estates
,
prevents
the
wasting
of
your
Substance
,
and
secures
to
you
what
you
possess
?
Is
it
not
the
Lord
?
How
many
fair
Estates
moulder
away
insensibly
,
and
come
to
nothing
?
Certainly
,
as
there
is
a
secret
Blessing
in
some
Families
,
so
that
themselves
can
scarce
give
any
account
how
they
are
provided
for
;
so
there
is
a
secret
blast
and
consumption
upon
others
,
which
brings
poverty
upon
them
like
an
armed
man
.
And
this
is
the
true
sense
of
that
Scripture
.
Hag
.
1.6
.
Ye
have
sown
much
,
and
bring
in
little
:
Ye
eat
,
but
ye
have
not
enough
:
Ye
drink
,
but
are
not
filled
with
drink
:
Ye
cloath
you
,
but
are
not
warm
:
And
he
that
earneth
wages
,
earneth
wages
to
put
it
into
a
Bag
with
holes
;
or
,
as
in
the
Hebrew
,
a
Bag
pierced
,
or
,
bored
through
;
what
goes
in
at
one
end
,
goes
out
at
another
,
and
so
all
labor
,
and
all
pains
is
lost
;
nothing
stays
with
them
to
do
them
good
.
So
that
it
is
an
undeniable
truth
,
That
Prosperity
and
Success
is
not
to
be
ascribed
to
our
Abilities
,
but
to
the
Blessing
of
God
upon
our
lawful
Endeavors
.
1
Inference
.
And
if
so
,
how
are
they
justly
reprovable
,
that
wholly
depend
upon
means
in
the
neglect
of
Providence
;
that
never
eye
God
,
or
acknowledge
him
in
any
of
their
ways
!
This
is
a
very
great
evil
,
and
highly
provoking
to
the
Lord
:
It
is
the
fruit
and
discovery
of
the
Natural
Atheism
of
the
Hearts
of
Men
.
How
confident
are
Men
of
Success
and
Prosperity
,
when
second
Causes
lie
fair
for
it
,
and
smile
upon
them
!
And
on
the
contrary
,
how
dejected
and
heartless
,
when
they
seem
to
lie
cross
to
their
hopes
!
O
how
few
consider
and
believe
that
great
truth
.
Eccles
.
9.1
.
That
the
righteous
,
and
the
wise
,
and
their
works
are
in
the
hand
of
God
.
To
be
in
the
hand
of
God
,
noteth
both
their
subjection
to
his
Power
,
and
to
his
directive
Providence
.
Whether
your
works
be
in
your
hand
,
or
put
out
of
your
hand
,
they
always
are
in
Gods
hand
to
prosper
or
frustrate
them
at
his
pleasure
.
Foolish
man
decreeth
Events
,
without
the
leave
of
Providence
;
as
if
he
were
absolute
lord
of
his
own
Actions
,
and
their
Success
.
Indeed
you
may
then
speak
of
Success
,
when
you
have
asked
Gods
leave
.
Job
22.28
.
Acquaint
thy self
with
God
,
then
shalt
thou
decree
a
thing
,
and
it
shall
be
established
.
But
your
confidence
in
the
means
,
whilest
God
is
neglected
,
will
surely
be
followed
▪
either
with
a
disappointment
or
a
curse
.
For
what
is
this
,
but
to
labor
without
God
?
yea
,
to
labor
against
God
;
for
so
do
all
they
,
that
give
the
glory
of
God
to
the
Creature
,
that
set
the
instrumental
and
subordinate
,
in
the
place
of
the
principal
efficient
cause
.
It
is
just
with
God
to
deny
you
your
comfort
,
in
those
things
,
wherein
you
rob
him
of
his
glory
.
2
Inference
.
How
vain
and
unreasonable
are
the
proud
boasts
of
Men
,
in
the
midst
of
their
Successes
and
Prosperity
?
If
God
be
the
sole
Author
of
it
,
and
it
●…
s
not
your
power
,
nor
the
might
of
your
hand
,
that
hath
gotten
you
this
wealth
;
why
do
you
glory
in
it
,
as
if
it
were
the
effect
and
fruit
of
your
own
●…
rudence
and
industry
?
How
soon
do
the
●…
pirits
of
men
rise
with
their
Estates
?
How
haughtily
do
they
look
?
How
●…
roudly
do
they
speak
?
What
a
sensible
●…
hange
of
temper
,
doth
a
small
change
of
●…
he
condition
work
?
It
is
an
exceeding
hard
thing
to
keep
down
the
heart
,
when
Providence
exalteth
a
Mans
estate
.
Mag●…
ae
foelicitatis
est
,
a
foelicitate
non
vinci
,
●…
aith
Austin
.
It
is
a
great
felicity
,
not
●…
o
be
overcome
by
felicity
.
That
Man
●…
s
surely
rich
in
Grace
,
whose
Graces
●…
uffer
no
eclipse
by
his
riches
.
It
is
as
hard
to
be
prosperous
and
humble
,
as
to
●…
e
afflicted
and
chearful
.
But
to
keep
●…
own
thy
heart
in
times
of
Success
and
Prosperity
,
I
will
offer
thee
,
Reader
,
a
few
humbling
Considerations
about
this
Matter
.
1.
And
the
first
is
this
,
Though
Providence
do
succeed
and
prosper
thy
Earthly
designs
,
yet
this
is
no
Argument
at
all
of
the
love
of
God
to
thy
Soul
:
Thou
mayest
be
the
object
of
his
hatred
and
wrath
for
all
this
.
No
man
knows
either
love
or
hatred
by
all
that
is
before
them
.
Eccles
.
9.1
.
How
weak
an
evidence
for
Heaven
must
that
be
,
which
millions
now
in
Hell
,
have
had
in
a
greater
measure
than
you
have
.
The
least
dram
of
Grace
is
a
better
pledge
of
happiness
,
than
the
greatest
sum
of
Gold
and
Silver
that
ever
lay
in
any
Mans
treasury
.
Externals
distinguish
not
internals
;
you
cannot
so
much
as
guess
what
a
Mans
Spiritual
estate
is
,
by
the
view
of
his
Temporal
.
Ishmael
was
a
great
man
,
the
head
of
a
Princely
family
,
but
excluded
from
the
Covenant
,
and
all
its
Spiritual
Blessings
.
Gen.
17.20
,
21.
He
that
reads
the
73
Psalm
,
and
Job
21.
Will
plainly
see
how
wretched
a
case
that
Man
is
in
,
who
hath
no
better
evidence
for
the
love
of
God
,
than
this
amounts
to
.
2.
Be
not
proud
of
outward
Prosperity
and
Success
;
for
Providences
are
very
changable
in
these
things
,
yea
,
it
daily
Rings
the
Changes
all
the
World
over
.
Many
a
greater
estate
than
yours
,
and
every
way
as
well
,
yea
,
far
better
secured
so
the
eye
of
Reason
,
hath
he
scattered
in
a
moment
.
It
is
the
saying
of
a
Philosopher
speaking
of
the
Estates
of
Merchants
and
Sea-men
.
Non
amo
foelicitatem
e
funibus
pendentem
.
I
like
not
that
happiness
that
hangs
upon
Ropes
.
I
need
not
here
cite
Histories
to
confirm
this
truth
:
There
is
none
of
you
but
can
abundantly
confirm
it
your selves
,
if
you
will
but
recollect
those
instances
and
examples
which
have
faln
within
your
time
and
remembrance
.
It
is
a
poor
happiness
that
may
leave
a
Man
more
miserable
to
morrow
,
than
he
that
never
arrived
to
what
you
have
,
can
be
.
3.
Pride
not
your selves
in
your
Success
;
for
as
Providences
are
very
changable
,
so
the
change
seems
very
nigh
to
you
,
when
your
heart
is
thus
lifted
up
,
especially
if
you
be
such
,
to
whose
eternal
happiness
God
hath
any
special
regard
.
To
be
sure
,
he
will
pull
down
that
proud
heart
,
and
quickly
order
Humbling
Providences
to
that
end
.
He
looketh
upon
every
one
that
is
proud
,
to
abase
him
.
Job
40.11
.
The
heart
of
good
Hezekiah
was
tickled
with
vain
glory
,
and
he
must
needs
shew
the
King
of
Babylons
servants
all
his
treasures
,
and
precious
things
;
and
at
that
very
time
came
the
Prophet
Isaiah
to
him
with
a
sad
Message
from
the
Lord
,
That
all
these
Treasures
in
which
he
had
gloried
must
be
carried
to
Babylon
,
Isai
.
39.
If
you
hope
comfortably
to
injoy
the
good
of
Providence
provoke
it
not
by
such
vain
ostentations
.
It
is
an
ingenious
note
even
of
an
Heathen
.
Tu
quoque
fac
timeas
,
&
quae
tibi
laeta
videntur
,
Dum
loqueris
,
fieri
tristia
posse
,
puta
.
Ovid
.
Exercise
Fear
in
Prosperity
,
and
think
with
thy self
,
when
thy
heart
is
most
affected
with
it
;
that
whilest
the
boast
is
in
thy
Lips
,
the
scene
may
alter
,
and
thy
happiness
be
turned
into
Sorrow
.
Whilest
that
proud
boast
was
in
the
mouth
of
Nebuchadnezzar
,
the
voice
from
Heaven
told
him
,
His
Kingdom
was
departed
from
him
.
Dan
.
4.30
,
31.
Pride
shews
that
Prosperity
which
feeds
it
,
to
be
at
its
Vertical
Point
.
3
Inference
.
If
Success
in
Business
be
from
the
Lord
,
then
certainly
the
true
way
to
Prosperity
is
to
commend
our
Affairs
to
God
by
Prayer
.
He
takes
the
true
way
to
thrive
,
that
ingages
Gods
Blessing
upon
his
indeavors
.
Commit
thy
way
unto
the
Lord
,
trust
also
in
him
,
and
he
shall
bring
it
to
pass
,
Psal
.
37.4
.
It
is
a
vile
thing
for
any
Man
to
grudge
that
time
that
is
spent
in
Prayer
,
as
so
much
time
lost
in
his
business
.
But
having
pressed
this
point
before
,
I
shall
add
no
more
here
.
4
Inference
.
Doth
all
Success
and
Prosperity
depend
upon
and
come
from
God
?
Then
let
it
be
faithfully
imployed
to
his
Glory
.
If
it
be
of
him
,
and
through
him
,
then
its
all
the
reason
in
the
World
it
should
be
to
him
.
Rom.
11.36
.
You
do
but
give
him
of
his
own
,
as
David
speaks
.
All
this
store
cometh
of
thine
hand
,
and
is
thine
own
,
1
Chro
.
29.16
.
He
never
intended
your
Estates
for
the
gratifying
of
your
Lusts
;
but
to
give
you
a
larger
capacity
thereby
of
honoring
him
in
the
use
of
it
.
O
consider
,
when
God
hath
prospered
your
Estates
abroad
,
and
you
return
successfully
home
,
now
you
have
an
opportunity
of
honoring
God
,
and
evidencing
your
sense
of
his
goodness
to
you
,
by
relieving
of
the
poor
with
a
liberal
and
chearful
Charity
;
by
incouraging
the
Gospel
;
and
making
them
partakers
of
your
good
things
,
who
labor
for
your
Souls
,
and
dispense
better
things
to
you
,
than
you
can
return
to
them
.
I
would
not
here
be
mis-interpreted
,
as
though
I
pleaded
my
own
interest
,
under
a
pretence
of
pleading
Gods
.
No
,
God
forbid
,
I
am
well
satisfied
with
a
capacity
of
doing
any
good
,
how
little
soever
I
receive
;
nor
can
many
of
you
reap
the
fruit
of
my
labors
.
But
I
would
not
leave
you
ignorant
,
or
regardless
of
so
great
and
plain
a
duty
as
this
is
.
You
are
bound
to
this
retribution
by
a
plain
and
positive
Precept
.
Gal.
6.6
.
Let
him
that
is
taught
in
the
Word
,
communicate
to
him
that
teacheth
in
all
good
things
.
You
are
obliged
to
do
it
,
proportionably
to
the
success
God
gives
you
in
your
Trade
.
1
Cor
.
16.2
.
And
when
you
have
so
done
,
not
to
think
it
any
great
matter
,
1
Cor
.
9.11
.
But
the
discharge
of
a
plain
and
necessary
duty
.
5
Inference
.
Let
not
your
hearts
be
satisfied
with
all
the
Success
and
Increase
in
the
World
,
except
your
Souls
thrive
as
well
as
your
Bodies
,
and
your
Eternal
concerns
prosper
as
well
as
your
Temporal
.
It
was
a
pious
wish
of
S.
John
for
Gaius
his
Host
,
That
he
might
prosper
and
be
in
health
,
even
as
his
Soul
prospered
.
3
Epist.
Joh
.
Vers
.
2.
But
it
were
to
be
wished
,
that
your
Souls
did
but
prosper
,
as
your
Bodies
and
Estates
do
.
It
is
a
poor
comfort
to
have
an
increasing
Estate
,
and
a
dead
or
declining
Soul
.
When
a
considerable
Present
was
sent
to
Luther
,
he
earnestly
protested
,
God
should
not
put
him
off
with
those
things
.
O
Friends
,
I
beseech
you
take
not
up
in
these
injoyments
.
6
Inference
.
Lastly
,
If
God
be
the
Author
of
all
your
Success
,
how
prodigious
an
evil
is
it
,
to
make
your
prosperity
an
instrument
of
dishonoring
him
that
gave
it
,
to
abuse
the
Estates
,
Providence
gives
you
,
unto
rioting
and
drunkenness
?
Do
you
thus
requite
the
Lord
?
Is
this
the
thanks
you
give
him
for
all
his
care
over
you
,
and
kindness
to
you
?
You
would
never
be
able
to
bear
that
from
another
,
which
God
bears
from
you
.
If
God
do
you
good
,
O
do
not
return
him
evil
for
it
.
THE
Disappointed
Sea-man
.
SERMON
V.
Luk
.
5.5
.
Master
,
we
have
toiled
all
the
night
,
and
have
taken
nothing
.
THese
words
are
the
Reply
made
by
Peter
unto
Christ
,
who
in
the
former
Verse
had
commanded
him
to
lanch
out
into
the
Deep
,
and
let
down
the
Nets
for
a
Draught
.
Peter
is
discouraged
as
to
any
farther
attempt
at
that
time
;
having
already
taken
so
much
pains
to
so
little
purpose
.
We
have
(
saith
he
)
toiled
all
night
,
and
taken
nothing
.
In
which
Reply
we
note
these
two
things
.
1.
The
great
pains
he
and
his
company
had
taken
in
their
honest
Calling
and
Imployment
,
to
get
a
livelihood
.
We
have
toiled
all
night
.
No
calling
more
lawful
,
no
diligence
in
an
honest
imployment
could
be
greater
;
not
only
to
spend
the
night
,
when
other
Laborers
take
their
rest
,
in
watching
,
but
in
toiling
.
The
word
{αβγδ}
comes
from
a
Verb
that
signifies
wasting
,
{αβγδ}
quando
quis
consumpto
labore
,
fessus
succumbit
.
tiring
,
spending
labor
.
Here
was
great
diligence
,
even
to
the
wearying
and
wasting
of
their
spirits
.
They
toiled
,
and
that
all
the
night
.
2.
The
unsuccessfulness
and
fruitlessness
of
their
Labors
,
they
caught
nothing
.
Though
their
design
was
honest
,
and
their
industry
great
,
yet
it
succeeded
not
according
to
their
desires
and
expectations
:
It
proved
but
lost
labor
,
and
pains
to
no
purpose
.
Hence
the
Note
will
be
.
Doctr
.
That
God
sometimes
frustrates
and
blasts
the
most
diligent
Labors
of
Men
,
in
their
just
and
lawful
Callings
.
What
imployment
more
honest
or
laborious
than
that
of
the
Husbandman
,
who
eats
his
Bread
in
the
sweat
of
his
brows
,
and
sustains
all
that
spending
toil
and
labor
by
an
expectation
of
Fruit
in
the
Season
?
And
yet
sometimes
it
so
falls
out
,
that
after
all
his
labors
and
hopes
,
he
reaps
nothing
but
shame
and
disappointment
.
Joel
1.11
.
Be
ye
ashamed
,
O
ye
Husbandmen
,
howl
O
ye
Vine-dressers
,
for
the
Wheat
,
and
for
the
Barly
,
because
the
harvest
of
the
Field
is
perished
.
The
imployment
of
the
Marriner
,
is
as
lawful
as
it
is
beneficial
.
What
he
gets
is
gotten
with
eminent
hazard
of
life
and
liberty
,
as
well
as
Watchings
and
Labors
;
and
yet
it
so
falls
out
sometimes
,
that
they
labor
but
for
the
wind
,
and
spend
their
strength
for
very
vanity
:
God
cuts
off
their
expectations
and
lives
together
.
There
is
a
time
when
they
return
rich
and
prosperous
;
and
a
time
,
when
they
either
return
empty
,
or
return
no
more
.
So
it
was
with
Tyre
,
that
renowned
Mart
and
famous
Empory
;
the
flourishing
and
fall
of
whose
Trade
,
you
have
in
Ezek
.
27.33
,
34.
When
thy
Wares
went
forth
out
of
the
Seas
,
thou
filledst
many
people
,
thou
didst
inrich
the
Kings
of
the
Earth
,
with
the
multitude
of
thy
riches
,
and
of
thy
merchandise
.
Here
was
their
Prosperity
and
Success
;
but
will
this
day
always
last
?
Shall
the
Sun
of
their
prosperity
never
set
?
No
,
no
,
the
change
was
at
hand
;
for
in
the
next
Verse
the
scene
alters
.
In
the
day
when
thou
shalt
be
broken
by
the
Seas
,
in
the
depths
of
the
Waters
,
thy
merchandise
,
and
all
thy
company
in
the
midst
of
thee
shall
fall
.
Now
if
we
search
into
the
Grounds
and
Reasons
of
these
Disappointments
,
by
the
hand
of
Providence
,
we
shall
find
them
reducible
to
a
threefold
Cause
and
Reason
.
1.
The
soveraign
pleasure
of
God
so
disposes
it
.
2.
The
good
of
the
People
of
God
,
requires
it
.
3.
The
manifold
sins
of
Men
in
their
Callings
,
provokes
it
.
First
,
The
soveraign
pleasure
of
God
so
disposes
it
.
He
is
the
Rector
of
the
Universe
,
and
as
such
will
still
assert
his
Dominion
.
It
is
his
pleasure
to
establish
this
order
in
the
World
,
to
exalt
some
and
depress
others
;
to
set
some
above
,
and
others
below
:
All
must
not
be
rich
and
great
,
but
some
must
be
poor
and
low
,
and
to
these
ends
Providences
are
suited
:
On
some
it
smiles
,
on
others
it
frowns
.
1
Sam
.
2.7
.
The
Lord
maketh
poor
,
and
maketh
rich
;
he
bringeth
low
,
and
lifteth
up
.
And
certainly
there
is
much
of
the
Divine
Wisdom
that
shines
forth
in
this
ordination
and
disposition
of
persons
,
and
their
conditions
.
If
Providence
had
alike
prospered
every
Mans
designs
,
and
set
them
upon
a
Level
,
there
had
been
no
occasion
to
exercise
the
rich
Mans
Charity
,
or
the
poor
Mans
Patience
.
Nay
,
without
frequent
Disappointments
,
it self
would
scarcely
be
owned
in
Successes
,
nor
those
Successes
be
half
so
sweet
to
them
that
receive
them
,
as
now
they
are
.
The
very
Beauty
of
Providence
consists
much
in
these
various
and
contrary
effects
:
So
that
with
respect
to
the
infinite
Wisdom
which
governs
the
World
,
it
is
necessary
some
should
be
crossed
,
and
others
prospered
in
their
designs
.
Secondly
,
And
if
we
consider
the
gracious
ends
and
designs
of
God
towards
his
own
people
,
it
appears
needful
,
that
all
of
them
,
in
some
things
,
and
many
of
them
in
most
things
(
relating
to
their
outward
condition
in
this
World
)
should
be
frustrated
in
their
expectations
and
contrivements
.
For
,
if
all
things
here
should
succeed
according
to
their
wish
,
and
a
constant
tide
of
Prosperity
should
attend
them
.
1.
How
soon
would
sensuality
and
Earthliness
invade
their
hearts
and
affections
?
Luxuriant
animi
rebus
plerumque
secundis
.
Much
prosperity
like
the
pouring
in
of
much
Wine
intoxicates
,
and
overcomes
our
weak
heads
and
hearts
.
Earthly
as
well
as
Heavenly
objects
,
have
a
transforming
efficacy
in
them
.
There
cannot
but
be
much
danger
in
those
Earthly
things
that
give
or
promise
us
much
delight
.
Can
a
Christian
keep
his
heart
as
loose
from
the
smiling
,
as
from
the
frowning
World
?
We
little
think
how
deeply
it
insinuates
into
our
affections
in
the
day
of
Prosperity
;
but
when
Adversity
comes
,
then
we
find
it
.
2.
How
soon
would
it
estrange
them
from
their
God
,
and
interrupt
their
communion
with
him
?
He
is
certainly
a
very
mortified
and
heavenly
Christian
,
whose
walk
with
God
,
suffers
no
interruption
by
the
multitude
of
Earthly
affairs
,
especially
when
they
are
prosperous
.
When
Israel
was
setled
in
the
midst
of
the
riches
and
delights
of
Canaan
,
then
say
they
,
(
even
to
their
Benefactor
,
the
Author
of
all
their
Prosperity
)
We
are
Lords
,
we
will
come
no
more
to
thee
.
Jer
.
2.31
.
Or
,
if
it
do
not
wholly
interrupt
their
communion
,
yet
it
secretly
destroys
and
wastes
the
vigor
,
life
,
and
sweetness
of
it
.
So
that
Divine
Wisdom
sets
it
necessary
to
cross
and
disappoint
them
in
the
World
,
to
prevent
the
mischievous
influences
that
Prosperity
would
have
upon
their
duties
.
He
had
rather
you
should
miss
your
desired
comforts
in
these
things
,
than
that
he
should
miss
that
delightful
fellowship
with
you
,
which
he
so
desires
.
3.
How
loath
should
we
be
to
leave
this
,
if
constant
Success
and
Prosperity
should
follow
our
affairs
and
designs
here
?
We
see
that
notwithstanding
all
the
cares
,
fears
,
sorrows
,
crosses
,
wants
,
and
disappointments
we
meet
with
from
year
to
year
,
and
from
day
to
day
;
yet
we
are
apt
to
hug
the
World
in
our
Bosoms
.
As
bitter
as
it
is
,
we
court
it
,
admire
it
,
and
zealously
prosecute
it
.
We
cling
to
it
,
and
are
loath
to
leave
it
,
though
we
have
little
rest
or
comfort
in
it
:
What
would
we
do
then
,
if
it
should
answer
our
expectations
and
desires
?
If
we
grasp
with
pleasure
,
a
Thorn
that
pierces
and
wounds
us
;
what
would
we
do
,
if
it
were
a
Rose
that
had
nothing
but
delight
and
pleasure
in
it
?
Thirdly
,
And
as
Disappointments
fall
out
as
the
Effects
of
Soveraign
pleasure
,
and
are
ordered
as
preventive
means
of
much
mischief
,
which
Prosperity
would
occasion
to
the
People
of
God
;
so
it
comes
as
a
righteous
retribution
and
punishment
of
the
many
evils
that
are
committed
in
our
trading
and
dealings
with
men
.
It
is
a
hard
thing
to
have
much
business
pass
through
our
hands
,
and
no
iniquity
cleave
to
them
,
and
defile
them
.
If
God
be
provoked
by
our
iniquities
against
us
,
wonder
not
,
that
things
go
cross
to
our
desires
and
hopes
.
God
may
suffer
some
men
to
prosper
in
their
wickedness
,
and
others
to
miscarry
in
their
just
and
righteous
enterprises
,
but
ordinarily
we
find
,
that
crying
sins
are
remarkably
punished
sooner
or
later
with
visible
judgments
.
So
that
if
others
do
not
,
yet
we
our selves
may
observe
the
Relation
,
that
such
a
judgment
bears
to
such
a
sin
.
And
from
among
many
,
I
will
here
select
these
following
evils
which
have
destroyed
the
Estates
and
Hopes
of
many
.
(
1.
)
Irreligious
and
Atheistical
neglect
and
contempt
of
God
and
his
Worship
,
especially
in
those
that
have
been
inlightned
,
and
made
profession
of
Religion
.
This
was
the
sin
which
brought
that
blasting
judgment
upon
the
estates
and
labors
of
the
Jews
,
as
the
Prophet
Haggai
tells
them
,
Chap.
1.
Vers
.
2
,
4
,
6
,
9.
compared
.
They
neglected
the
House
of
God
.
(
i.e.
)
Were
careless
and
regardless
of
his
Worship
,
and
in
the
mean
time
were
wholly
intent
upon
their
own
houses
and
interests
;
as
he
tells
them
in
Vers
.
2
,
4.
And
what
was
the
issue
of
this
?
Why
,
ruine
to
all
their
Earthly
comforts
and
designs
;
so
he
tells
them
Vers
.
6
,
9.
Ye
have
sowen
much
,
and
bring
in
little
;
ye
eat
,
but
ye
have
not
enough
;
ye
drink
,
but
ye
are
not
filled
with
drink
;
ye
cloath
you
,
but
there
is
none
warm
:
And
he
that
earneth
wages
,
to
put
it
into
a
bag
with
holes
.
Ye
looked
for
much
,
and
lo
,
it
came
to
little
;
and
when
ye
brought
it
home
,
I
did
blow
upon
it
.
Why
,
saith
the
Lord
of
Hosts
?
Because
of
mine
house
that
is
waste
,
and
ye
turn
every
man
unto
his
own
house
.
Here
are
great
and
manifold
Disappointments
of
their
hopes
,
a
curse
,
a
blast
upon
all
they
took
in
hand
;
and
the
procuring
cause
of
all
this
,
was
their
eager
prosecution
of
the
World
,
in
a
careless
disregard
of
God
,
and
his
Service
.
(
2.
)
Injustice
and
Fraud
is
a
blasting
sin
.
A
little
unjust
gain
mingled
with
a
great
estate
,
will
consume
it
like
a
Moth
.
The
Spirit
of
God
hath
used
a
very
lively
similitude
to
represent
to
us
the
mischievous
effects
of
this
sin
upon
all
Humane
diligence
and
industry
.
Jer
.
17.11
.
As
the
Patridge
sitteth
upon
Eggs
and
hatcheth
them
not
;
so
he
that
getteth
riches
,
and
not
by
right
,
shall
leave
them
in
the
midst
of
his
days
,
and
at
his
end
shall
be
a
fool
.
Unjust
gain
,
how
long
soever
men
sit
brooding
upon
it
,
shall
after
all
their
sedulity
and
expectation
,
turn
to
no
other
account
,
than
a
Fowls
sitting
upon
a
Nest
of
addle-eggs
uses
to
do
:
If
she
sit
till
she
have
pined
away
her self
to
death
,
nothing
is
produced
.
You
think
you
consult
the
interest
of
your
Families
herein
;
but
the
Lord
tells
you
,
That
you
consult
shame
to
your
houses
,
Hab
.
2.10
.
This
is
not
the
way
to
Feather
,
but
to
Fire
your
Nest
.
A
quiet
Conscience
is
infinitely
better
than
a
full
Purse
.
One
Dish
of
wholesom
,
though
courser
food
,
is
better
than
an
hundred
delicate
,
but
poysoned
dishes
.
If
a
Man
have
eaten
the
best
food
in
the
World
,
and
afterward
sips
but
a
little
poyson
,
he
loseth
not
only
the
benefit
,
and
comfort
of
that
which
was
good
,
but
his
life
or
health
to
boot
.
It
may
be
you
have
gotten
much
honesty
,
what
pitty
is
it
all
this
should
be
destroyed
for
the
sake
of
a
little
gotten
dishonestly
.
This
is
the
reason
why
some
Men
cannot
prosper
.
(
3.
)
Oppression
is
a
blasting
sin
to
Mens
Estates
and
Imployments
.
It
is
a
crying
sin
in
the
ears
of
the
Lord
,
and
ordinarily
Intails
a
Visible
Curse
upon
Mens
Estates
.
This
like
a
Moth
will
suddenly
fret
and
consume
the
greatest
Estate
.
Jam
.
5.2
,
4.
Your
riches
are
corrupted
and
your
Garments
Moth-eaten
.
(
i.e.
)
The
secret
of
God
,
wastes
and
destroys
what
you
get
.
And
what
was
the
cause
?
he
tells
us
,
Vers
.
4.
Behold
the
hire
of
the
laborers
,
that
have
reaped
down
your
fields
,
which
is
of
you
kept
back
by
fraud
,
cryeth
;
and
the
cryes
of
them
which
have
reaped
,
are
entered
into
the
ears
of
the
Lord
of
Sabbath
.
The
oppression
of
poor
Laborers
doth
more
mischief
to
the
oppressors
,
than
it
doth
to
them
that
are
oppressed
.
Manton
in
Loc
.
It
is
noted
by
one
upon
this
Scripture
,
that
it
is
twice
repeated
in
this
Text
,
Which
have
reaped
your
fields
,
and
then
again
,
The
cry
of
them
which
have
reaped
;
and
the
reason
is
,
because
it
is
their
life
,
and
so
an
act
of
the
greatest
unmercifulness
.
And
besides
,
they
are
disappointed
of
the
solace
of
their
Labors
.
Deut
.
24.14
,
15.
He
hath
set
his
heart
upon
it
.
(
i.e.
)
He
comforts
himself
in
the
toils
and
labors
of
the
day
,
by
reckoning
upon
his
wa●
at
the
end
of
the
day
.
I
wish
those
that
are
Owners
and
Imployers
of
poor
Sea-man
may
seasonably
consider
this
evil
.
What
a
wo
is
denounced
upon
him
,
that
useth
his
neighbors
service
without
wages
.
Jer
.
22.13
.
Or
,
that
by
crafty
pretences
defraud
them
of
any
part
thereof
,
or
by
tiresome
delays
.
Wear
out
their
patience
,
and
cast
them
upon
manifold
sufferings
and
inconveniences
while
they
wait
for
it
.
God
hath
not
only
threatned
to
be
a
swift
witness
against
those
that
oppress
the
hireling
in
his
wa●s
,
Minus
solvit
,
qui
minus
tempore
solvit
.
but
hath
strictly
forbidden
the
detaining
of
their
wages
.
The
Jews
were
commanded
to
make
payment
before
the
Sun
set
.
Deut
.
24.14
,
15.
Levit
.
19.30
.
Be
just
in
all
your
dealings
and
contracts
,
or
never
expect
the
Righteous
God
should
smile
upon
your
undertakings
.
(
4.
)
Falshood
and
Lying
is
a
Blasting
sin
to
our
Imployments
:
A
sin
which
tends
to
destroy
all
converse
,
and
disband
all
civil
Societies
.
And
though
by
falshood
men
may
get
some
present
advantages
;
yet
hear
what
the
Holy
Ghost
saith
of
riches
gotten
this
way
.
The
geting
of
riches
by
a
lying
tongue
;
is
a
vanity
tossed
to
and
fro
of
them
that
seek
death
.
Prov.
21.6
.
Some
trade
in
lies
,
as
much
as
in
Wares
;
yea
,
they
trade
off
their
Wares
with
lies
.
And
this
proves
a
gainful
trade
(
as
some
men
count
gain
)
for
the
present
;
but
in
reality
,
it
is
the
most
unprofitable
trade
that
any
man
can
drive
.
For
it
is
but
the
tossing
of
a
vanity
to
and
fro
:
A
phrase
importing
labor
in
vain
,
it
profits
nothing
in
the
end
;
and
as
it
profits
nothing
,
so
it
hurts
much
.
They
seek
profit
intentionally
,
but
death
eventually
(
i
.
e
.
)
it
will
bring
destruction
and
ruine
,
not
only
upon
our
trades
,
but
our
Souls
.
The
God
of
Truth
will
not
long
prosper
the
way
of
lying
.
One
penny
gotten
by
a
laborious
hand
,
is
better
than
great
treasures
gotten
by
a
lying
tongue
.
Take
heed
you
seek
not
death
,
in
seeking
an
estate
this
way
.
It
is
a
sin
destructive
to
Society
;
for
there
is
no
trade
where
there
is
no
trust
,
nor
no
trust
where
there
is
no
truth
;
and
yet
this
cursed
trade
of
Lying
creeps
into
all
trades
,
as
if
there
were
no
living
(
as
one
speaks
)
without
lying
:
But
sure
it
is
better
for
you
to
be
loosers
than
lyers
.
He
sells
a
dear
bargain
indeed
,
that
sells
his
Conscience
with
his
commodity
.
(
5.
)
Perjury
or
False-swearing
is
a
Blasting
sin
.
That
man
cannot
prosper
that
lies
under
the
guilt
thereof
.
It
is
said
Mal
.
3.5
.
That
God
will
be
a
swift
witness
against
the
false
swearer
.
(
i.e.
)
It
shall
not
be
long
before
God
by
one
remarkable
stroke
of
Judgment
,
or
another
witnesseth
against
so
great
and
horrid
an
evil
.
And
again
,
Zach.
5.4
.
the
curse
,
yea
,
the
roll
of
curses
shall
enter
into
the
house
of
the
false
swearer
,
and
shall
remain
in
the
midst
of
his
house
,
and
shall
consume
it
,
with
the
timber
thereof
,
and
the
stones
thereof
.
This
is
a
sin
that
hath
laid
many
houses
waste
,
even
great
and
fair
without
inhabitant
.
The
ruines
of
many
that
were
once
flourishing
and
great
Men
,
are
at
this
day
left
to
be
the
lasting
Monuments
of
Gods
righteous
Judgments
,
and
dreadful
warnings
to
Posterity
.
And
thus
I
have
shewed
you
,
what
are
those
common
evils
in
trade
,
which
are
the
causes
of
those
Blasts
and
Disappointments
upon
it
.
It
now
remains
that
we
apply
it
.
1
Inference
.
Doth
God
sometimes
disappoint
the
most
diligent
labors
of
Men
in
their
lawful
Callings
?
Then
this
teacheth
you
patience
and
submission
under
your
Crosses
and
Disappointments
;
for
it
is
the
Lord
that
orders
it
to
be
so
.
Events
are
in
his
hand
,
and
it
is
a
sin
of
great
aggravation
to
fret
and
murmur
at
them
,
when
they
fall
out
cross
to
your
desires
and
hopes
.
Behold
,
is
it
not
of
the
Lord
of
Hosts
,
that
the
people
shall
labor
in
the
very
fire
,
and
the
people
shall
weary
themselves
for
very
vanity
?
Hab.
2.13
.
To
labor
in
the
very
fire
,
notes
intense
Labor
,
such
as
exhausts
the
very
spirits
of
Men
,
whilest
they
are
sweltering
and
toiling
at
at
;
and
yet
all
is
to
no
purpose
,
they
labor
but
for
vanity
:
And
whence
is
it
,
that
such
vigorous
indeavors
are
blasted
and
miscarry
?
Is
it
not
of
the
Lord
?
And
if
it
be
of
the
Lord
,
Why
do
we
fret
and
quarrel
at
his
disposals
?
Indeed
many
dare
not
openly
and
directly
charge
God
,
but
seek
to
cover
their
discontent
at
Providence
,
by
a
groundless
quarrel
with
the
Instruments
,
who
it
may
be
,
are
chargable
with
nothing
;
but
that
after
they
have
done
all
they
could
,
in
the
use
of
proper
means
,
they
did
not
also
secure
the
event
.
It
is
true
,
the
Dominion
of
Providence
doth
not
excuse
the
negligence
of
Instruments
;
and
in
many
cases
,
these
may
be
justly
reproved
,
when
Providence
is
duly
honored
and
submitted
to
:
But
when
Men
groundlesly
quarrel
with
Instruments
,
because
they
are
crossed
in
their
expectations
,
the
quarrel
is
commenced
against
God
himself
;
and
our
discontents
with
Men
,
are
but
a
covert
for
our
discontents
with
God
.
Now
this
is
a
sore
evil
,
a
sin
of
great
and
dreadful
aggravations
.
To
be
given
over
(
saith
a
grave
Author
)
to
a
contradicting
spirit
,
Master
Strong
of
the
Will
of
God
.
P.
242.
to
dispute
against
any
part
of
the
Will
of
God
;
is
one
of
the
greatest
Plagues
that
a
Man
can
be
given
up
to
.
Who
art
thou
that
repliest
against
God
?
Rom.
11.
It
may
be
thou
hast
lost
an
estate
,
thy
friends
fail
,
thy
hopes
are
faln
;
God
hath
blown
upon
all
the
projects
that
thy
heart
did
fancy
to
it self
.
Possibly
in
one
day
,
the
designs
,
labors
,
and
hopes
of
many
years
are
destroyed
:
Well
,
be
it
so
,
yet
repine
not
against
the
Lord
.
Consider
,
he
is
the
Soveraign
and
only
Lord
,
who
may
do
whatever
he
pleaseth
to
do
,
without
giving
thee
any
account
of
his
matters
.
Who
can
say
to
him
,
What
dost
thou
?
Beside
,
if
thou
be
one
that
God
delights
in
,
even
these
Disappointments
are
to
be
numbred
with
thy
best
Mercies
.
These
things
are
permitted
to
perish
,
that
thou
mayest
not
perish
for
ever
;
and
it
should
trouble
thee
no
more
,
than
when
thy
life
is
preserved
,
by
casting
out
the
wares
and
goods
of
the
Ship
.
It
is
better
that
these
perish
,
than
that
thou
shouldst
perish
:
But
if
thou
be
one
that
hast
mingled
sin
(
especially
such
as
were
beforementioned
)
with
thy
trade
,
and
so
hast
pulled
down
misery
upon
thine
own
head
,
by
provoking
the
Lord
against
thee
:
With
what
face
canst
thou
open
thy
mouth
to
complain
against
him
?
Will
you
lay
a
train
to
blow
up
all
your
success
,
and
then
fret
against
God
,
when
you
see
the
issue
?
O
how
unreasonable
is
this
!
But
because
Disappointments
fall
out
so
frequently
,
and
it
is
so
hard
to
bring
our
hearts
to
a
quiet
submission
to
the
Will
of
God
under
them
.
I
will
not
dismiss
this
Point
,
until
I
have
offered
you
some
proper
and
weighty
considerations
,
to
work
your
hearts
into
a
calm
,
and
meek
submission
to
the
Will
of
God
;
and
I
shall
account
it
a
great
mercy
,
if
they
may
prevail
.
1
Consideration
.
And
in
the
first
place
,
if
thou
be
one
that
fearest
God
,
consider
,
That
Disappointments
in
Earthly
things
,
fix
no
mark
of
Gods
hatred
upon
thee
.
He
may
love
thee
,
and
yet
cross
thee
.
Eccles
.
9.1
,
2.
No
man
knows
either
love
or
hatred
,
by
all
the
things
that
are
before
him
.
All
things
come
alike
to
all
;
there
is
one
event
to
the
righteous
,
and
to
the
wicked
.
Yea
,
we
often
find
Success
and
Prosperity
following
the
wicked
,
whilest
the
Rod
of
God
is
upon
the
Tabernacles
of
the
Righteous
.
These
are
the
ungodly
that
prosper
in
the
World
(
saith
the
Psalmist
)
whilest
in
the
mean
time
,
he
was
plagued
all
the
day
long
,
and
chastned
every
morning
.
Psal
.
73.12
,
14.
Well
then
,
if
you
have
no
other
ground
than
this
,
you
cannot
infer
the
want
of
love
,
from
the
want
of
success
.
A
man
may
be
prospered
in
wrath
,
and
crossed
in
mercy
.
2
Consideration
.
And
what
though
your
projects
,
hopes
,
and
expectations
of
inlarging
your
Estates
,
fail
;
yet
you
may
live
as
happily
and
comfortably
in
the
condition
you
are
,
(
if
God
give
you
a
heart
suitable
to
it
)
as
if
you
had
injoyed
all
that
success
,
you
so
fancied
and
desired
.
It
is
not
the
increase
of
an
Estate
,
but
the
blessing
of
God
upon
a
competency
,
that
makes
our
condition
comfortable
to
us
.
As
the
estate
inlarges
,
so
doth
the
heart
.
The
Prophet
Habakkuk
speaking
of
the
Chaldean
Prince
,
Hab
.
2.6
.
saith
,
He
keeps
not
at
home
,
he
inlarges
his
desire
as
Hell
,
and
is
as
Death
,
and
cannot
be
satisfied
,
but
gathereth
unto
him
all
Nations
,
and
heapeth
unto
him
all
people
.
And
this
is
the
nature
of
every
Mans
heart
,
to
inlarge
its
desire
under
the
greatest
inlargements
of
Providence
.
Still
the
heart
is
projecting
for
some
farther
comfort
and
content
,
in
some
new
acquisition
;
when
indeed
,
a
Man
is
as
near
it
in
a
lower
condition
,
as
in
the
highest
exaltation
.
Plutarch
in
Pyrrho
.
It
is
storied
of
Pyrrhus
,
King
of
Epirus
,
that
having
inlarged
his
Dominions
by
the
Conquest
of
Macedonia
;
he
thirsted
after
Italy
,
and
demanding
the
advice
of
Cineas
his
great
Counsellor
:
He
asked
the
King
,
What
he
meant
to
do
when
he
had
conquered
Italy
?
Why
then
said
he
,
I
mean
to
get
Sicily
,
which
is
near
,
rich
,
and
powerful
.
When
you
have
gotten
Sicily
(
said
Cineas
)
what
then
?
Afric
,
said
the
King
,
is
not
far
off
;
and
there
be
many
goodly
Kingdoms
,
which
by
my
Fame
,
and
the
Valor
of
my
Soldiers
I
may
subdu●
.
Be
it
so
,
said
Cineas
.
When
you
have
Afric
,
and
all
in
it
;
what
will
you
do
then
?
Why
then
,
said
the
King
,
thou
and
I
will
be
merry
,
and
make
good
chear
.
Cineas
replied
,
Sir
,
if
this
be
the
end
you
aim
at
,
what
need
you
venture
your
Kingdom
,
Person
,
and
Honor
,
to
purchase
what
you
have
already
?
Surely
,
Epirus
and
Macedonia
,
are
sufficient
to
make
you
and
me
merry
.
And
had
you
all
the
World
,
you
could
not
be
more
merry
than
you
may
now
be
.
Reader
,
I
advise
thee
,
under
all
Disappointments
of
thy
expectations
,
to
bless
God
for
any
comfortable
injoyment
thou
hast
.
If
God
give
thee
a
smaller
estate
,
and
a
contented
heart
;
it
is
as
well
,
yea
,
better
,
than
if
thou
hadst
in●…
oyed
thy
desire
.
The
Bee
makes
a
sweeter
meal
upon
two
or
three
Flowers
,
than
●…
he
Ox
that
hath
so
many
Mountains
to
graze
upon
.
3
Consideration
.
And
what
if
by
these
Disappointments
,
God
be
carrying
on
●…
he
great
design
of
his
eternal
love
upon
●…
hy
Soul
?
This
may
be
the
design
of
●…
hese
Providences
;
and
if
so
,
sure
there
●…
s
no
cause
for
thy
despondencies
.
There
●…
s
a
double
aim
of
these
Providences
;
●…
ometimes
they
are
sent
to
awaken
and
●…
ouze
the
dull
decayed
habits
of
Grace
,
●…
hich
under
prosperous
Providences
fell
●…
leep
,
by
the
intermission
of
acts
,
and
remission
of
w●nted
vigor
and
activity
?
And
should
the
Lord
permit
things
to
run
on
at
this
rate
,
what
a
deplorable
case
would
this
grow
to
?
Let
a
man
live
(
saith
one
)
but
two
or
three
years
without
affliction
,
Mr.
Stee●
.
and
he
is
almost
good
for
nothing
;
he
cannot
pray
,
nor
meditate
,
nor
keep
his
heart
fixed
upon
spiritual
things
:
But
let
God
smite
him
in
his
health
,
child
,
or
estate
;
now
he
can
find
his
tongue
and
affections
again
;
now
he
awakes
and
falls
to
his
duty
in
earnest
;
now
God
hath
twice
as
much
honor
from
him
as
he
had
before
.
Now
,
saith
God
,
this
amendment
pleaseth
me
;
this
rod
was
well
bestowed
:
I
have
disappointed
him
to
his
great
benefit
and
advantage
.
And
thus
God
chides
himself
friends
with
his
people
again
.
And
sometimes
they
prove
the
blessed
occasions
to
work
Grace
.
If
they
be
bound
in
fetters
,
and
holden
in
cords
of
affliction
,
then
he
sheweth
them
their
works
,
and
their
transgressions
that
they
have
exceeded
▪
He
openeth
also
their
ear
to
discipline
,
and
commandeth
that
they
return
from
iniquity
▪
Job
36.8
,
9
,
10.
And
if
this
be
the
fruit
of
it
,
you
wil●…
bless
God
through
eternity
for
these
happy
Disappointments
.
Then
these
things
perished
,
that
thy
Soul
might
not
perish
.
4
Consideration
.
Be
patient
under
Disappointments
;
for
if
you
meekly
submit
,
and
quietly
wait
upon
God
;
he
can
quickly
repair
all
that
you
have
lost
,
and
restore
it
by
other
Providences
double
to
you
.
Have
you
not
heard
after
all
Jobs
deprivations
,
and
the
frustrations
of
all
his
earthly
hopes
,
and
his
admirable
patience
under
all
:
What
a
gracious
end
the
Lord
made
with
him
?
And
why
may
not
you
hope
for
such
a
comfortable
change
of
Providence
towards
you
,
if
you
carry
it
under
Disappointments
as
he
did
?
Certainly
,
sad
Providences
are
near
their
change
,
when
the
heart
is
calmed
in
the
Will
of
God
,
and
corrected
home
to
him
.
5
Consideration
.
And
why
should
it
seem
so
hard
,
and
grievous
to
you
,
for
God
to
disappoint
your
hopes
,
and
purposes
,
when
you
cannot
but
know
,
that
you
have
disappointed
his
expectations
from
you
so
often
,
and
that
in
greater
and
better
things
than
these
?
He
hath
looked
for
fruit
(
as
it
is
Isai
.
5.4
.
)
for
obedience
,
reformation
,
and
renewed
care
of
duty
from
you
many
times
;
he
promised
himself
,
and
made
account
of
a
good
return
of
his
afflictions
and
mercies
,
and
you
promised
him
as
much
,
and
yet
have
failed
his
expectation
:
And
is
it
strange
that
you
should
fail
of
your
hopes
,
who
have
failed
God
so
often
?
O
then
see
that
you
be
quiet
in
the
Will
of
God
;
fret
not
at
the
defeating
of
your
hopes
:
Wreak
not
your
discontent
upon
innocent
instruments
;
but
look
to
the
just
,
holy
,
and
good
Will
of
God
in
all
things
.
The
wife
is
sometimes
angry
with
the
servant
for
what
he
hath
done
,
till
he
tell
her
that
it
was
his
Masters
order
,
and
then
she
is
quiet
.
Is
a
Ship
miscarried
,
a
Voyage
lost
,
a
Relation
dead
,
an
Estate
gone
,
a
Friend
carried
into
captivity
,
whose
return
was
expected
with
so
much
comfort
?
Why
,
if
it
be
so
,
it
is
the
Lord
hath
done
it
,
and
be
thou
silent
before
him
.
Your
repining
will
not
make
it
better
;
sin
is
no
proper
cure
for
affliction
.
A
quiet
submissive
spirit
,
is
pleasing
to
God
,
and
profitable
for
you
.
2
Inference
.
Doth
God
sometimes
disappoint
the
expectations
of
Men
in
their
imployments
,
then
never
set
your
hearts
immoderately
upon
Earthly
things
,
nor
raise
up
to
your selves
too
great
expectations
from
these
things
.
The
stronger
your
expectations
,
the
heavier
Gods
Disappointments
will
be
.
There
is
a
double
evil
in
over-reckoning
our selves
,
and
over-acting
our
confidence
about
worldly
things
:
It
provokes
God
to
disappoint
us
,
and
then
makes
the
Disappointment
much
more
grievous
when
it
comes
.
It
provokes
a
Disappointment
,
especially
to
the
Godly
.
The
Lord
is
jealous
of
their
affections
,
and
will
not
indure
that
any
thing
should
be
a
corrival
or
competitor
with
him
for
their
hearts
:
Yea
,
it
is
so
usual
with
God
to
dash
,
and
remove
whatever
ingrosses
too
much
of
the
heart
,
that
a
gracious
Soul
cannot
but
reckon
that
comfort
in
great
danger
●…
o
be
lost
,
which
he
finds
to
be
over●…
oved
.
If
David
set
his
heart
upon
Absalom
,
God
will
not
only
smite
him
,
but
smite
David
by
him
,
and
make
him
first
the
●…
nstrument
of
his
sorrow
,
and
then
the
●…
bject
of
it
.
Jonah
did
but
take
a
little
●…
oo
much
comfort
in
his
gourd
,
and
the
next
news
we
hear
,
was
,
That
God
prepared
a
Worm
to
smite
it
,
and
cause
it
to
wither
away
.
And
when
your
inordinate
hopes
are
crost
,
(
as
it
is
very
probable
they
will
be
)
how
will
your
sorrows
be
aggravated
in
proportion
to
them
!
Those
things
that
seemed
to
promise
us
most
comfort
,
are
the
things
that
give
us
most
sorrow
.
Strong
affections
,
make
strong
afflictions
.
Our
sorrows
usually
rise
from
what
was
our
hope
,
and
our
comforts
from
that
which
was
least
regarded
.
3
Inference
.
If
it
be
so
,
then
labor
to
make
sure
things
eternal
,
lest
you
be
eternally
disappointed
there
also
.
O
what
a
sad
case
is
that
Man
in
,
whose
expectations
fail
from
both
Worlds
!
If
your
hopes
from
this
World
fail
;
yet
you
may
bear
it
comfortably
,
if
you
fail
not
in
your
better
hopes
:
But
if
this
fail
too
,
you
are
of
all
men
the
most
miserable
▪
You
know
by
experience
,
how
sad
it
is
to
have
your
hopes
cut
off
in
these
smaller
concerns
;
to
go
forth
in
expectation
of
a
profitable
voyage
,
and
to
return
in
a
worse
case
than
you
went
out
:
It
may
be
you
thought
to
get
an
estate
,
but
the
issue
is
,
to
lose
that
little
you
had
.
You
thought
to
go
to
such
a
place
,
and
there
meet
with
a
good
market
,
and
possibly
,
your selves
may
be
carried
as
slaves
to
be
sold
in
the
market
.
These
Disappointments
are
very
sad
and
cutting
things
;
but
nothing
to
an
Eternal
Disappointment
in
your
great
concern
.
For
a
Man
to
hope
he
is
in
Christ
,
and
a
pardoned
state
,
and
at
last
find
himself
deceived
,
and
that
all
the
sins
of
his
nature
,
heart
,
and
practice
,
lie
upon
him
.
To
hope
for
admission
into
Heaven
,
when
he
is
turned
out
of
this
World
by
death
,
and
find
the
door
shut
against
him
;
to
cry
with
those
poor
disappointed
wretches
,
Matth
.
7.22
.
Lord
,
Lord
open
to
us
;
and
receive
such
an
unexpected
return
from
Christ
,
as
they
did
,
Depart
from
me
,
I
know
you
not
.
Lord
,
how
intolerable
is
such
a
defeat
of
hope
as
this
!
O
,
who
can
think
of
it
without
horror
!
The
things
about
which
your
expectations
are
frustrated
in
this
World
,
are
small
things
;
you
may
be
happy
in
the
want
of
them
:
But
the
frustration
of
your
hopes
from
the
World
to
come
,
is
in
things
of
infinite
weight
.
These
Disappointments
are
but
for
a
little
while
;
but
this
will
be
for
ever
.
O
therefore
be
provoked
,
even
by
these
things
to
a
diligent
and
seasonable
prevention
of
a
far
greater
misery
.
Since
these
things
cannot
be
secured
,
labor
to
secure
those
things
that
may
.
O
that
you
were
but
as
full
of
thoughts
,
cares
,
and
fears
for
Heaven
,
as
you
are
for
the
World
!
You
have
spent
many
thousand
thoughts
,
about
these
things
,
to
no
purpose
.
All
your
thoughts
about
them
,
are
come
to
nothing
;
but
had
they
been
spent
for
your
Souls
,
to
what
a
comfortable
account
would
they
now
have
turned
?
Friends
,
I
beseech
you
,
make
sure
for
eternity
,
and
let
these
crosses
,
and
losses
in
the
World
,
be
the
happy
occasions
to
awaken
you
to
a
serious
diligence
for
your
everlasting
interests
.
Then
you
are
no
loosers
by
your
losses
;
nay
,
you
will
have
cause
to
call
them
prosperous
Disappointments
,
and
gainful
losses
to
you
.
4
Inference
.
Then
as
you
would
not
have
the
works
and
labors
of
your
hands
blasted
,
beware
of
those
sins
that
provoke
God
to
blow
upon
them
.
Think
not
that
injustice
,
oppression
,
deceit
,
and
perjury
,
shall
ever
profit
you
.
God
hath
cursed
all
the
ways
of
sin
,
and
you
cannot
prosper
in
them
.
Above
all
,
beware
of
Atheism
and
Irreligion
:
God
will
not
own
them
,
that
disown
him
,
and
slight
his
Worship
.
I
doubt
your
prophanation
of
the
Lords
day
,
by
drunkenness
,
idleness
,
and
worldly
imployments
,
is
not
the
least
cause
of
those
disappointments
and
losses
that
have
befaln
you
.
The
first
day
of
the
week
,
like
the
first
fruits
of
the
Jews
Harvests
,
might
sanctifie
the
whole
lump
.
And
let
none
pretend
,
that
multiplicity
of
business
will
not
allow
them
time
and
disposition
for
Sabbath
work
.
If
you
be
too
busie
to
attend
the
Lords
service
,
he
can
quickly
give
you
a
Writ
of
Ease
,
and
make
you
keep
more
resting
days
from
your
labors
,
than
you
are
willing
to
do
.
The
Lord
would
not
excuse
the
Israelites
,
no
not
in
the
busiest
Seasons
,
the
times
of
Earing
,
and
Harvest
,
and
the
very
building
of
the
Tabernacle
;
but
all
must
give
way
to
the
Sabbath
.
And
I
am
sure
,
the
promise
of
Blessing
and
Success
,
is
made
to
the
conscionable
observation
of
it
.
Isai
.
58.13
,
14.
If
thou
turn
away
thy
foot
from
the
Sabbath
,
from
doing
thy
pleasure
upon
my
holy
day
;
and
call
the
Sabbath
a
delight
,
the
holy
of
the
Lord
,
and
honorable
;
and
shalt
honor
him
,
not
doing
thine
own
ways
,
not
finding
thine
own
pleasures
,
nor
speaking
thine
own
words
:
Then
shalt
thou
delight
thy self
in
the
Lord
:
There
is
a
recompence
to
the
Soul
.
And
he
shall
cause
thee
to
ride
on
the
high
places
of
the
Earth
:
There
is
a
reward
to
the
Body
.
Godliness
is
profitable
to
all
things
.
THE
Sea-mans
Return
.
SERMON
VI
.
Deut
.
33.19
.
They
shall
call
the
people
unto
the
Mountain
,
there
they
shall
offer
Sacrifices
of
Righteousness
:
For
they
shall
suck
of
the
abundance
of
the
Seas
,
and
of
the
Trasures
hid
in
the
Sand
.
THis
Scripture
is
part
of
the
last
words
of
Moses
.
A
Man
that
in
his
life
was
a
great
Blessing
to
Israel
;
and
when
●…
e
was
to
be
separated
from
them
by
●…
eath
,
he
pronounces
distinct
and
suit●…
le
Blessings
upon
all
the
Tribes
.
As
●…
hrist
parted
from
the
Disciples
,
blessing
●…
em
;
so
doth
Moses
from
his
People
.
Only
with
this
difference
,
Moses
as
Gods
Mouth
pronounced
,
but
God
alone
could
confer
the
Blessing
.
Moses
blessed
them
authoritatively
,
but
could
not
bless
them
potestatively
as
Christ
did
.
Now
these
words
contain
the
Blessing
of
the
Tribe
of
Zebulun
,
which
was
the
Tribe
of
Sea-men
.
And
in
them
we
shall
consider
these
two
parts
.
Viz
.
-
1.
Their
Priviledge
.
-
2.
Their
Duty
.
First
,
Their
Priviledge
:
That
they
should
suck
of
the
abundance
of
the
Seas
,
and
of
the
Treasures
hid
in
the
Sands
.
Affluentiam
maris
sugere
,
est
marinis
bonis
,
&
mercibus
abundare
.
Glos
.
To
suck
the
abundance
of
the
Sea
,
is
a
metonymica●…
expression
,
signifying
a●…
much
as
to
be
inriche●…
and
stored
with
the
Wares
and
Merchandize
imported
by
Sea
to
them
.
Geographers
attribute
to
the
Sea
,
Arms
and
Bosoms
;
and
the
Scripture
,
Brests
.
The
Sea
like
an
indulgent
Mother
imbraces
thos●…
that
live
upon
it
in
her
Bosom
,
and
with
full
flowing
Brests
nourisheth
them
,
an●…
feeds
them
,
as
a
Mother
doth
the
Infan●…
that
Sucks
,
and
depends
for
its
livelihoo●…
upon
her
Brests
.
And
these
Brests
do
not
only
afford
those
that
hang
upon
them
the
necessaries
of
life
,
Bread
,
Referunt
ad
eaquae
evomere
solent
maria
,
scil
.
ad
aurifodinas
.
Effodient
e
terra
arenosa
aurum
.
Pol
.
Synop
.
in
Loc
.
Rayment
,
&c.
but
the
Riches
,
Ornaments
,
and
Delights
of
life
also
.
The
Treasures
hid
in
the
Sand
;
as
Gold
,
Coral
,
Ambergriece
,
and
such
like
precious
and
rich
treasures
which
it
yields
.
This
was
the
Blessing
and
Priviledge
of
this
Tribe
of
Zebulun
,
whose
Cities
and
Villages
were
commodiously
scituated
upon
the
Seashore
,
for
Merchandize
and
Traffick
:
As
you
may
see
Jos
.
19.11
.
Secondly
,
Their
Duty
,
to
which
these
Mercies
and
Priviledges
obliged
them
.
They
shall
call
the
People
to
the
Mountain
,
there
they
shall
offer
Sacrifices
of
Righteousness
.
By
the
Mountain
,
we
are
here
to
understand
the
Temple
,
which
Moses
,
by
the
Spirit
of
Prophesie
,
foresaw
to
be
built
upon
Mount
Sion
,
and
Mount
Moriah
;
which
two
were
as
the
Shoulders
that
supported
it
,
Vers
.
12.
Here
was
the
Worship
of
God
;
the
Sacrificers
were
here
offered
up
to
him
.
And
hither
Zebulun
,
in
the
sense
of
Gods
Mercies
to
them
,
should
call
the
People
,
(
i.e.
)
say
some
,
their
own
People
,
their
Families
,
and
Neighbors
;
or
as
others
,
the
Strangers
that
were
among
them
for
Traffick
.
Saying
as
Isai
.
2.3
.
Come
,
let
us
go
up
to
the
House
of
the
Lord
,
to
the
Mountain
of
the
God
of
Jacob
.
And
here
they
shall
offer
the
Sacrifices
of
Righteousness
.
By
which
we
are
to
understand
their
Thanks-offerings
for
the
Mercies
they
had
received
of
the
Lord
.
The
Jews
had
not
only
Expiatory
Sacrifices
to
procure
the
pardon
of
sins
committed
,
but
Eucharistical
Sacrifices
,
or
Thanks-offerings
,
to
testifie
the
sense
they
had
of
Mercies
received
.
These
Sacrifices
typified
Moral
Duties
and
when
these
Types
were
abolished
,
the
Apostle
shews
,
that
the
calves
of
our
lips
,
the
sacrifices
of
praise
,
are
in
the
stead
of
them
,
Heb
.
13.15
.
So
then
,
the
sum
of
all
,
is
this
,
That
when
they
returned
from
Sea
,
or
had
received
the
Blessings
thereof
,
from
the
Hand
of
God
,
they
should
repair
to
the
place
of
his
Worship
,
and
there
acknowledge
and
praise
the
God
of
their
Mercies
.
So
that
the
whole
Verse
thus
explained
,
casts
it self
into
this
Doctrinal
observation
.
Doctr
.
That
it
is
the
special
duty
of
Sea-men
,
when
God
returns
them
to
their
habitations
in
peace
,
thankfully
to
acknowledge
and
bless
his
Name
,
for
all
the
preservations
and
mercies
they
have
received
of
his
hand
.
These
are
Mercies
indeed
,
which
are
obtained
from
God
by
Prayer
,
and
returned
to
him
again
by
praise
.
When
we
have
received
our
Mercies
,
God
expects
his
praises
:
After
the
Psalmist
had
opened
the
hazards
and
fears
of
Sea-men
upon
the
Stormy
Ocean
,
and
the
goodness
of
God
,
in
bringing
them
to
their
desired
Haven
,
Psal
.
107.30
.
he
presently
calls
upon
them
for
this
duty
,
Vers
.
31.
O
that
men
would
praise
the
Lord
for
his
goodness
,
and
for
his
wonderful
works
to
the
children
of
men
.
O
that
men
would
,
why
,
how
is
it
imaginable
they
should
not
?
He
hath
the
heart
of
a
Beast
,
not
of
a
Man
,
that
will
not
.
Did
I
say
the
heart
of
a
Beast
?
Give
me
that
word
again
.
There
is
a
kind
of
gratitude
,
even
in
Beasts
,
to
their
Benefactors
.
The
Ox
knoweth
his
owner
,
and
the
Ass
his
Masters
Crib
.
Isai
.
1.3
.
Now
the
method
into
which
I
will
cast
the
discourse
,
shall
be
First
,
To
open
the
nature
of
the
duty
,
and
to
shew
you
what
it
is
to
praise
God
for
his
Mercies
.
Secondly
,
To
give
you
the
Grounds
and
Reasons
of
the
Duty
,
why
God
expects
it
,
and
you
ought
to
give
it
him
.
And
then
Thirdly
,
To
apply
it
in
the
several
Uses
it
is
improvable
unto
.
1.
The
nature
of
the
Duty
needs
opening
,
for
few
understand
what
it
is
.
Alass
,
it
is
another
manner
of
thing
than
a
customary
,
formal
,
cold
,
God
be
thanked
.
Now
,
if
we
search
into
the
nature
of
this
duty
,
we
shall
find
that
whoever
undertakes
this
Angelical
work
,
must
First
,
Be
a
heedful
Observer
of
the
Mercies
he
receives
.
This
is
fundamental
to
the
Duty
.
Where
no
Observations
of
Mercies
have
been
made
,
no
praises
for
them
can
be
returned
.
God
was
never
honored
by
his
unobserved
Mercies
.
When
David
had
opened
the
Providences
of
God
,
to
the
several
degrees
and
orders
of
Men
,
in
its
various
administrations
;
and
called
upon
them
distinctly
,
to
praise
God
for
them
.
He
adds
in
the
close
of
all
,
Whoso
is
wise
,
and
will
observe
these
things
,
even
they
shall
understand
the
loving
kindness
of
the
Lord
.
Psal
.
107.
ult
.
It
is
Gods
charge
against
Israel
,
Hosea
2.8
.
She
did
not
know
that
I
gave
her
Corn
,
and
Wine
,
and
Oyl
,
and
multiplied
her
Silver
.
i
.
e
.
She
did
not
observe
and
take
notice
of
these
Mercies
,
as
coming
from
my
hand
;
but
only
look
at
the
next
cause
.
Thus
it
is
with
many
,
they
think
not
upon
their
own
Mercies
;
others
can
observe
them
,
but
they
cannot
;
they
can
quickly
observe
what
troubles
befal
them
,
but
take
little
notice
of
their
own
Mercies
.
Such
men
can
never
be
thankful
.
Secondly
,
The
thankful
man
must
not
only
observe
what
Mercies
he
hath
,
and
from
whom
they
come
;
but
must
particularly
consider
them
,
in
their
natures
,
degrees
,
seasons
,
and
manner
of
conveyance
.
There
is
much
of
Gods
glory
,
and
our
comfort
lost
for
want
of
this
.
The
works
of
the
Lord
are
great
,
sought
out
of
all
them
that
have
pleasure
therein
.
Psal
.
111.2
.
And
indeed
,
there
is
no
imployment
in
all
the
World
,
that
yields
more
pleasure
to
a
gracious
Soul
,
than
the
Anatomising
of
Providences
doth
.
How
sweet
is
it
to
observe
the
mutual
respects
,
coincidencies
,
and
introductive
occasions
of
our
Mercies
!
Every
minute
circumstance
hath
its
weight
and
value
here
.
He
hath
little
pleasure
in
his
meat
,
that
swallows
it
whole
without
chewing
.
Thirdly
,
The
thankful
person
must
duly
estimate
and
value
his
Mercies
.
It
is
impossible
that
man
can
be
thankful
for
Mercies
he
little
esteems
.
Israel
could
not
praise
God
for
that
Angels
food
with
which
he
fed
them
,
whilest
they
despised
it
in
saying
,
There
is
nothing
but
this
Manna
.
And
surely
it
shews
the
great
corruption
of
our
nature
,
That
those
things
which
should
raise
the
value
of
Mercies
with
us
,
cause
us
the
more
to
slight
them
;
yet
thus
it
falls
out
.
The
commonness
,
or
long
continuance
of
Mercies
with
us
,
which
should
indear
them
the
more
,
and
every
day
increase
our
obligation
to
God
;
causes
them
to
seem
but
cheap
and
small
things
.
And
therefore
doth
God
so
often
threaten
them
,
yea
,
and
remove
them
;
that
their
worth
and
excellency
may
thereby
be
acknowledged
.
Fourthly
,
The
thankful
person
must
faithfully
Record
his
Mercies
,
else
God
cannot
have
his
due
praise
for
them
.
Bless
the
Lord
,
O
my
Soul
,
and
forget
not
all
his
benefits
,
Psal
.
103.2
.
Forgotten
re-M
cies
bear
no
fruit
:
A
bad
memory
in
this
case
,
makes
a
barren
heart
and
life
.
I
confess
,
the
Mercies
of
God
are
such
a
multitude
,
that
a
memory
of
Brass
cannot
retain
them
.
I
will
come
before
thee
in
the
multitude
of
thy
mercies
,
saith
David
,
Psal
.
5.7
.
They
are
called
Showers
of
Blessings
,
Ezek
.
34.26
.
And
as
impossible
it
is
distinctly
to
recount
all
our
Mercies
,
as
to
number
the
drops
of
rain
that
fall
in
a
shower
.
Nevertheless
,
it
hath
been
the
pious
care
and
indeavor
of
the
People
of
God
,
to
preserve
and
perpetuate
his
Mercies
,
by
using
all
the
helps
to
memory
they
could
.
Therefore
they
have
kept
Registers
,
Exod
.
17.14
.
Indited
Psalms
.
To
bring
to
remembrance
,
Psal
.
70.
Title
.
Denominated
places
from
the
Mercies
received
there
.
Thus
Jacob
called
the
place
where
he
found
so
much
mercy
,
Bethel
.
Hagar
named
the
Well
,
where
God
,
unexpectedly
,
relieved
her
,
Beerlahairoi
.
The
Well
of
him
that
liveth
and
looketh
upon
me
,
Gen.
16.13
,
14.
They
have
stamped
the
Mercies
upon
the
days
,
in
which
they
received
them
.
Thus
the
Jews
called
those
days
,
in
which
God
wrought
their
deliverance
,
Purim
,
after
the
name
Pur
.
Signifying
the
Lot
Haman
had
cast
for
their
lives
.
Esth.
9.26
.
Yea
,
they
have
called
their
Mercies
upon
their
Children
.
1
Sam
.
1.20
.
Thus
thankful
Souls
have
striven
to
recognize
their
Mercies
,
that
God
might
not
lose
the
praise
,
nor
themselves
the
comfort
of
them
.
Fifthly
,
The
thankful
Person
must
be
suitably
affected
with
the
Mercies
he
receives
.
It
is
not
a
speculative
,
but
an
affectionate
remembrance
that
becomes
us
:
Then
God
hath
his
glory
,
when
the
sense
of
his
Mercies
melts
our
hearts
into
holy
joy
,
love
,
and
admiration
.
Thus
David
sits
down
before
the
Lord
like
a
man
astonished
at
his
goodness
to
him
.
2
Sam
.
7.20
.
And
what
can
David
say
more
?
For
thou
Lord
knowest
thy
servant
.
The
Mercies
of
God
have
made
the
Saints
hearts
leap
for
joy
within
them
.
Psal
.
92.4
.
Thou
Lord
hast
made
me
glad
,
through
thy
Works
;
therefore
will
I
triumph
in
the
Works
of
thy
hands
.
Mercies
are
not
Mercies
,
Deliverances
are
no
Deliverances
to
us
,
if
we
that
receive
them
,
are
not
glad
of
them
.
Sixthly
,
The
thankful
Person
must
order
his
conversation
suitably
to
the
ingagements
that
his
mercies
have
put
him
under
.
When
we
have
said
all
,
it
is
the
life
of
the
thankful
,
that
is
the
very
life
of
thankfulness
.
Obedience
and
service
are
the
only
real
manifestations
of
gratitude
.
He
that
offereth
praise
,
glorifieth
me
,
and
to
him
that
ordereth
his
conversation
aright
,
will
I
shew
the
salvation
of
God
.
Psal
.
50.23
.
Set
down
this
for
an
everlasting
truth
,
That
God
was
never
praised
and
honored
by
an
abused
Mercy
.
God
took
it
ill
from
Hezekiah
,
That
he
rendred
not
again
according
to
the
benefit
done
unto
him
.
2
Chro
.
32.25
.
He
that
is
truly
thankful
,
will
say
as
David
,
Psal
.
116.12
.
What
shall
I
render
to
the
Lord
for
all
his
benefits
?
We
then
glorifie
God
with
his
Mercies
,
when
we
imploy
them
to
right
ends
,
when
we
thankfully
take
out
our
own
share
of
comfort
from
them
,
receiving
them
with
thanksgiving
,
as
from
the
hand
of
a
Father
.
Mr.
Swinock
tels
of
a
young
man
,
Swinocks
Christian
Mans
Calling
,
pag
.
409.
who
lying
upon
his
sick
bed
,
was
always
calling
for
meat
;
but
assoon
as
it
was
brought
him
,
he
shook
and
trembled
dreadfully
at
the
fight
of
it
,
and
so
continued
till
it
was
taken
away
;
and
before
his
death
,
acknowledged
Gods
Justice
;
for
that
in
his
health
,
he
ordinarily
received
his
Meat
without
thanksgiving
.
Use
all
Gods
Mercies
with
thankfulness
,
God
will
remember
them
in
fury
,
who
forget
him
in
his
favors
.
And
think
not
what
God
bestows
upon
you
,
is
wholly
for
your
own
use
:
But
honor
God
with
your
Mercies
,
by
cloathing
the
naked
,
and
feeding
the
hungry
,
especially
such
as
are
Godly
.
This
is
a
due
improvement
of
your
Estates
;
thus
you
may
make
to
your selves
friends
of
the
Mammon
of
unrighteousness
.
Ah
,
how
little
do
we
consider
,
what
praise
,
what
glory
,
we
may
occasion
this
way
from
others
to
the
Name
of
God!
Justin
.
Lib
.
51.
It
is
storied
of
Dionysius
,
the
Syracusian
Tyrant
;
that
when
he
saw
what
heaps
of
Gold
and
Silver
his
son
hoarded
up
in
his
Closet
.
He
asked
him
,
what
he
meant
to
let
it
lie
there
,
and
not
to
make
friends
with
it
,
to
get
the
Kingdom
after
his
death
?
O
Son
(
said
he
)
thou
hast
not
a
spirit
capable
of
a
Kingdom
.
Thus
honor
the
Lord
with
your
substance
;
look
upon
all
you
have
as
your
Masters
Talents
;
for
which
,
you
must
give
an
account
:
And
so
use
and
imploy
them
for
God
,
that
you
may
give
up
your
account
with
joy
;
and
then
you
will
shew
your selves
thankful
indeed
.
Thus
you
see
what
is
included
in
real
thankfulness
.
O
,
it
is
another
matter
than
we
take
it
to
be
.
2.
Next
I
promised
to
give
you
the
Grounds
and
Reasons
of
this
Duty
.
Why
you
are
obliged
after
the
receit
of
Mercies
,
to
such
a
thankful
return
of
praises
.
And
among
many
,
I
will
only
single
out
these
three
,
and
briefly
open
them
.
First
,
God
requires
and
expects
it
.
It
is
so
special
and
peculiar
a
part
of
his
glory
,
as
he
will
never
part
with
it
.
As
great
Landlords
oblige
their
Tenants
to
an
homage
and
service
,
when
they
make
over
their
Estates
to
them
,
and
reserve
a
quit
Rent
to
themselves
,
which
they
value
at
an
high
rate
;
so
God
when
he
bestows
Deliverances
〈◇〉
Mercies
upon
us
,
still
reserves
an
acknowledgment
to
himself
:
And
this
is
dear
to
him
,
he
will
not
indure
to
be
defrauded
of
it
;
much
less
,
that
it
be
given
to
another
.
You
find
this
reservation
of
praise
expresly
made
by
him
in
Psal
.
50.15
.
Call
upon
me
in
the
day
of
trouble
,
I
will
deliver
thee
,
and
thou
shalt
glorifie
me●…
Where
you
have
the
request
,
the
grant
and
the
reservation
in
the
grant
,
q.
d
When
I
have
granted
thee
thy
desire
,
see
thou
do
not
defraud
me
of
my
glory
There
be
three
things
in
every
Mercy
the
matter
of
it
,
the
comfort
of
it
,
and
the
glory
of
it
.
The
two
first
,
God
make●…
over
freely
to
us
,
he
gives
the
Mercie●…
themselves
,
he
allows
us
to
suck
out
al●…
the
lawful
pleasure
,
and
delight
that
is
in
them
;
but
the
third
he
reserves
to
himself
,
and
will
never
part
with
to
any
other
.
If
an
Hezekiah
himself
render
not
to
God
due
acknowledgments
,
as
well
as
God
loves
him
,
there
shall
be
great
wrath
upon
him
,
and
Judah
,
for
the
default
.
2
Chro
.
32.26
.
Secondly
,
You
are
under
manifold
ingagements
to
render
it
to
the
Lord
.
(
1.
)
Common
ingenuity
obliges
to
a
due
acknowledgment
of
favors
freely
received
,
and
unthankfulness
on
tha●…
score
,
is
the
odium
of
mankind
.
Ingratum
si
dicas
,
omnia
dixeris
.
You
cannot
give
a
man
a
more
odious
character
among
men
,
than
to
say
,
He
is
an
ungrateful
man
.
(
2.
)
The
examples
of
the
very
Heathen
will
condemn
you
.
They
praised
their
gods
,
which
yet
were
no
gods
,
when
they
received
any
deliverance
.
Judg
.
16.24
.
Shall
Idols
,
Dunghil-Deities
,
receive
their
sacrifices
and
praises
,
whilest
the
true
God
is
forgotten
?
Nay
(
3
)
many
of
you
have
formally
and
expresly
obliged
your
Souls
to
it
,
by
solemn
vows
and
promises
in
the
day
of
your
distress
:
And
yet
will
you
deal
perfidiously
with
God
?
Will
you
not
pay
the
vows
which
your
lips
have
uttered
?
Certainly
,
you
can
never
free
your
Souls
from
the
guilt
of
perfidiousness
against
God
,
whilest
you
give
him
not
the
glory
due
to
his
name
.
3.
Lastly
,
Your
ingratitude
is
the
ready
way
to
deprive
you
of
the
Mercies
you
have
,
and
to
withhold
from
you
the
Mercies
you
might
have
in
your
future
distresses
and
wants
.
He
that
is
ungrateful
for
Mercies
received
,
provokes
God
to
remove
them
.
Thus
it
fell
out
with
ungrateful
Israel
.
Hos
.
2.5
,
8
,
9.
She
did
not
know
,
(
i.e.
)
She
did
not
with
consideration
and
thanks
duly
acknow●…
edge
)
That
I
gave
her
Corn
,
and
Wine
,
and
Oyl
.
Therefore
will
I
return
,
and
take
away
my
Corn
in
the
time
thereof
;
and
my
Wine
in
the
season
thereof
:
And
will
recover
my
Wool
,
and
my
Flax
.
Thus
they
suffered
their
Mercies
to
lapse
into
the
Lords
hand
for
non-payment
of
their
Duties
.
If
you
be
weary
of
your
Mercies
,
and
willing
to
be
rid
of
them
,
you
cannot
take
a
more
effectual
course
,
than
to
forget
from
whom
you
had
them
,
and
withhold
his
praise
for
them
.
And
then
,
for
future
Mercies
and
Deliverances
,
you
have
no
ground
to
expect
any
more
from
God
,
whom
you
have
thus
requited
for
former
favors
.
He
that
gives
no
thanks
for
one
Mercy
,
hath
little
ground
to
expect
another
.
It
was
a
sad
word
which
God
spake
upon
this
very
provocation
.
Judg
.
10.11
,
12
,
13.
When
a
new
distress
befel
Israel
by
the
Ammonites
,
and
they
cried
to
the
Lord
for
help
;
he
tells
them
,
That
he
had
many
times
delivered
them
from
their
enemies
.
Yet
,
saith
he
,
have
you
forsaken
me
,
and
served
other
gods
.
Wherefore
I
will
deliver
you
no
more
;
go
and
cry
to
the
gods
which
ye
have
chosen
,
and
let
them
deliver
you
in
the
time
of
your
tribulation
.
q
.
d
.
With
what
face
can
you
come
to
me
for
new
Merrcies
and
Deliverances
,
when
your selves
know
,
how
former
Mercies
have
been
abused
!
Think
ye
that
I
am
weary
of
my
Mercies
,
to
cast
them
away
upon
such
unthankful
wretches
?
No
,
no
.
Expect
no
more
Mercies
from
me
,
I
will
deliver
you
no
more
.
One
of
the
Fathers
calls
ingratitude
,
Obex
infernalis
.
An
Hellish
stop
;
which
interrupts
the
course
and
current
of
all
Gods
Mercies
.
Mercy
is
not
only
a
precious
thing
,
too
good
to
be
cast
away
,
but
it
is
a
very
tender
thing
,
and
God
deeply
resents
the
abuses
of
it
.
Thus
you
see
the
Grounds
and
Reasons
of
your
duty
;
it
remains
now
that
we
apply
it
.
1
Use
.
Is
it
your
unquestionable
Duty
to
return
praises
upon
every
receit
of
Mercies
?
Then
in
the
first
place
,
bear
your
shame
and
just
reproof
for
your
manifest
unthankfulness
.
You
dare
not
deny
,
but
you
have
received
many
signal
and
eminent
Mercies
from
the
Hands
of
God
.
If
you
should
deny
that
,
I
need
go
no
farther
to
prove
you
prodigiously
ungrateful
.
But
it
is
too
manifest
to
be
denied
:
You
have
found
God
a
very
present
help
in
trouble
;
his
Mercy
hath
often
rescued
you
out
of
the
very
jaws
of
death
.
Some
of
you
have
been
in
dangers
in
the
Deeps
;
in
Deaths
oft
.
You
have
been
put
to
your
wits
end
;
all
visible
hope
and
help
failed
.
You
might
have
said
with
the
Psalmist
,
Psal
.
142.4
.
I
looked
upon
my
right
hand
,
and
there
was
none
;
and
upon
the
left
,
but
refuge
failed
.
You
have
seen
your
companions
intombed
before
your
eyes
in
the
Seas
,
and
concluded
in
your
own
thoughts
,
your
turn
was
next
.
You
have
been
in
danger
by
barbarous
enemies
,
that
have
chased
you
upon
the
Sea
,
to
make
you
a
prey
:
Yea
,
it
may
be
you
have
been
a
prey
to
them
,
and
never
thought
to
have
seen
the
Land
of
your
Nativity
;
your
Houses
,
Wives
,
and
Children
any
more
.
You
have
languished
under
dangerous
diseases
,
and
that
remote
from
friends
,
and
necessary
accommodations
.
You
have
lost
your
Estates
,
and
been
reduced
to
a
low
ebb
,
and
never
thought
to
have
seen
a
day
of
prosperity
any
more
.
Yet
hath
the
Lord
delivered
you
out
of
all
your
troubles
:
He
hath
provided
unexpected
means
of
preservation
,
when
the
proud
Waters
were
ready
to
go
over
your
Souls
.
And
though
others
went
down
before
your
eyes
,
you
were
marked
out
for
Deliverance
.
God
spake
to
the
raging
Waves
,
saying
,
Touch
not
this
Man
▪
I
will
not
deliver
him
up
,
though
I
have
done
so
by
others
.
When
cruel
enemies
chased
you
,
he
delivered
you
,
causing
the
darkness
of
the
night
to
interpose
seasonably
betwixt
you
and
them
;
as
the
dark
side
of
the
Cloud
shadowed
Israel
from
the
Egyptians
that
pursued
them
.
Exod
.
14.20
.
Sometimes
giving
you
a
favorable
gale
,
which
blew
Mercy
and
Deliverance
to
you
:
Sometimes
by
strengthning
you
to
resist
their
furious
attacks
,
and
delivering
you
from
their
rage
;
or
,
if
he
delivered
you
into
their
hands
,
yet
there
he
preserved
you
,
inabling
you
to
indure
their
severities
,
or
causing
the
enemy
to
intreat
you
well
;
and
finding
out
a
way
which
you
knew
not
,
to
bring
you
at
last
out
of
the
House
of
Bondage
.
He
pitied
you
under
your
dangerous
diseases
,
and
though
necessary
accommodations
and
means
might
be
wanting
he
was
your
Physician
,
and
healed
you
;
he
recovered
you
immediately
without
means
,
or
blessed
weak
and
small
means
to
your
good
.
When
you
were
reduced
by
losses
,
and
captivities
to
a
low
ebb
.
So
that
you
might
say
as
the
Church
,
Lam
.
3.17
.
I
forgat
Prosperity
.
He
hath
not
only
recruited
thy
strength
,
but
thy
estate
also
;
and
when
both
thy
body
and
estate
,
like
an
old
leaky
Ship
,
have
been
ready
to
sink
;
he
hath
stopped
the
leaks
in
both
,
careened
,
repaired
,
and
launched
thee
into
the
World
again
,
as
whole
,
as
sound
,
and
strong
as
ever
.
And
now
Reader
,
suffer
me
to
account
and
expostulate
a
little
with
thy
Conscience
.
What
hath
the
fruit
of
all
these
Mercies
been
to
thee
?
And
how
hast
thou
carried
it
since
those
days
,
towards
the
God
of
thy
Mercies
.
Hast
thou
indeed
been
melted
by
the
sense
of
all
this
kindness
into
love
,
thankfulness
,
and
new
obedience
?
Have
these
favors
ingaged
thee
to
more
strictness
in
thy
duties
,
and
greater
watchfulness
against
sin
?
Hast
thou
said
with
that
good
man
,
Ezra
9.13
,
14.
And
now
,
my
God
,
seeing
thou
hast
punished
me
less
than
mine
iniquities
deserve
,
and
hast
given
me
such
Deliverances
as
these
,
should
I
again
break
thy
Commandments
?
If
it
be
so
,
surely
Mercy
and
Goodness
shall
follow
thee
all
the
days
of
thy
l●fe
.
The
Lord
then
reckons
all
these
Mercies
well
bestowed
,
and
will
never
repent
that
he
hath
done
thee
good
.
But
I
fear
this
is
not
thy
case
.
Sure
I
am
,
there
are
some
among
you
that
have
quickly
forgotten
the
God
that
delivered
you
.
Some
that
have
abused
him
to
his
face
,
by
ascribing
his
Mercies
to
good
luck
,
chance
,
and
fortune
;
not
once
owning
him
as
your
Deliverer
.
And
some
that
have
made
his
Mercies
weapons
of
sin
,
to
wound
him
withal
,
wasting
your
estates
by
prodigality
,
which
were
given
to
refresh
your
Families
,
and
Gods
poor
;
yea
,
abusing
them
to
drunkenness
and
luxury
:
And
is
this
the
thanks
you
return
him
?
For
which
of
all
my
good
Works
(
saith
Christ
to
the
Jews
)
do
you
stone
me
?
So
say
I
,
for
which
of
all
Gods
kindnesses
to
you
,
do
you
thus
dishonor
and
abuse
him
?
O
let
shame
cover
your
faces
this
day
.
Go
Reader
,
sold
down
this
Leaf
,
and
get
thee
to
thy
knees
,
and
say
,
I
am
the
man
to
whom
this
reproof
is
sent
.
I
have
abused
the
God
of
my
Mercies
,
I
have
turned
his
Grace
into
wantonness
Smite
with
Ephraim
upon
thy
thigh
,
and
say
,
What
have
I
done
!
Mourn
heartily
for
thy
unkindness
to
thy
best
Friend
,
The
God
that
hath
done
thee
good
all
thy
life
long
;
and
deserves
other
returns
from
thee
than
these
.
2
Use
.
Lastly
,
It
calls
upon
you
all
to
be
thankful
for
your
Mercies
.
Chrysostome
once
wished
for
a
voice
like
Thunder
,
that
all
Men
might
hear
him
.
O
that
I
could
so
call
you
to
this
duty
,
that
some
of
you
might
effectually
hear
Gods
call
in
this
Exhortation
.
Will
you
own
the
hand
that
delivers
you
,
that
feeds
,
cloaths
,
and
heals
you
?
Will
you
resolve
to
live
the
life
of
praise
?
And
render
to
the
Lord
according
to
the
benefits
you
have
received
?
Will
you
indeed
walk
humbly
and
thankfully
,
under
all
your
Deliverances
and
Successes
,
and
glorifie
God
by
that
,
wherewith
he
hath
comforted
and
refreshed
you
?
If
there
be
any
saving
knowledge
of
God
,
and
spiritual
sense
of
his
love
in
your
Souls
,
methinks
I
should
prevail
with
you
;
for
do
but
weigh
these
following
Arguments
seriously
,
and
they
will
ingage
you
to
it
.
1
Argument
.
How
freely
have
all
your
Mercies
streamed
to
you
,
from
the
Fountain
of
Grace
!
There
was
nothing
in
you
to
ingage
it
.
The
very
notion
of
Mercy
includes
freeness
;
they
are
all
bestowed
upon
us
,
not
only
as
we
are
immerentes
,
but
male
merentes
,
undeserving
,
but
ill
deserving
Creatures
;
not
only
without
our
merits
,
but
against
our
merits
.
And
what
though
there
be
〈…〉
concurrence
of
your
abilities
,
headwork
,
and
hand-work
,
in
the
procurement
of
some
of
your
Mercies
,
yet
still
those
Mercies
are
the
pure
effects
of
Free-grace
:
For
all
those
indeavors
of
yours
had
signified
nothing
to
their
procurement
,
without
Gods
Blessing
;
yea
,
and
that
wisdom
and
industry
which
you
used
,
are
themselves
the
Free-gifts
of
God
.
You
know
there
be
thousands
in
the
World
,
as
industrious
and
wise
as
you
,
and
such
as
never
provoked
God
by
such
sins
as
you
have
;
who
yet
are
denied
the
Mercies
you
injoy
.
O
,
how
should
this
indear
you
to
God!
2
Argument
.
How
seasonably
your
Mercies
have
been
bestowed
upon
you
,
in
the
very
nick
of
extremity
and
danger
?
God
hath
on
purpose
suffered
it
to
grow
to
an
extremity
,
that
thereby
he
might
commend
his
Mercy
to
you
with
the
greater
advantage
.
In
the
Mount
of
the
Lord
it
hath
been
seen
.
Gen.
22.14
Without
this
,
God
saw
his
Mercie
would
have
been
slighted
and
low
prize●…
by
you
.
But
God
hath
watched
the
opportunity
of
bestowing
his
goodness
upon
you
,
for
no
other
end
,
but
to
magnifie
his
Mercies
in
your
eyes
,
and
mak●…
the
deeper
and
more
lasting
impression
upon
your
hearts
.
Shall
such
Mercies
which
at
first
were
so
amazing
,
and
overwhelming
to
you
;
at
the
receit
whereof
you
were
like
men
that
dreamed
,
as
th●…
Psalmist
speaks
,
Psal
.
126.1
.
So
soo●…
grow
stale
and
common
?
God
forbid
.
3
Argument
.
How
special
and
distinguishing
,
have
some
of
your
Mercies
been
?
God
hath
not
dealt
with
every
one
,
as
he
hath
with
you
.
Are
not
some
that
went
out
with
you
,
found
wanting
at
your
return
?
They
are
among
the
dead
,
it
may
be
among
the
damned
,
and
you
among
the
living
,
yet
injoying
the
capacity
and
means
of
Salvation
.
God
hath
prospered
your
Voyage
,
and
returned
you
with
Success
;
you
have
sucked
the
abundance
of
the
Sea
,
and
the
Treasures
hid
in
the
Sand
,
as
the
Text
speaks
;
but
others
may
say
as
Naomi
,
Ruth
1.21
.
I
went
out
full
,
and
am
come
back
empty
.
〈…〉
went
out
full
of
hopes
,
and
come
back
with
sad
disappointments
;
and
is
not
his
a
strong
tie
to
Thanksgiving
?
4
Argument
.
Did
not
your
Mercies
●…
ind
you
under
great
guilt
?
You
know
what
your
own
transgressions
against
the
Lord
were
;
and
yet
such
was
the
●…
trength
of
Mercy
,
that
it
brake
●…
hrough
all
your
great
provocations
,
●…
nd
made
its
way
to
you
through
a
mul●…
itude
of
iniquities
.
It
came
triumphing
over
all
your
great
unworthiness
,
and
is
not
such
Mercy
worthy
to
be
admired
and
recorded
for
ever
!
O
what
will
affect
and
melt
your
hearts
,
if
this
will
not
?
Surely
such
Mercies
have
a
constraining
power
in
them
,
upon
all
sensible
Souls
.
5
Argument
.
To
conclude
,
if
all
the
goodness
of
God
,
which
hath
passed
before
your
eyes
,
do
indeed
prevail
upon
you
,
to
love
the
Lord
,
and
fear
to
offend
him
;
if
they
really
constrain
you
to
give
up
your selves
,
and
all
you
have
,
to
be
his
:
Then
all
these
,
are
but
the
beginnings
of
Mercies
,
and
you
shall
see
yet
greater
things
than
these
.
God
hath
more
Mercies
yet
behind
,
and
those
of
an
higher
kind
,
and
more
excellent
nature
than
these
Temporal
Mercies
are
.
You
are
now
delivered
from
the
dangers
of
the
Sea
,
and
have
escaped
those
perils
:
O
but
what
is
this
,
to
deliverance
from
wrath
to
come
?
You
have
been
preserved
from
,
or
delivered
out
of
Turkish
slavery
.
But
what
is
that
to
a
Deliverance
from
the
curse
of
the
Law
,
the
bondage
of
your
Lusts
,
and
the
power
of
Satan
?
Happy
Souls
,
if
these
Deliverances
prove
introductive
to
the
great
Salvation
.
The
Conclusion
.
Thus
I
have
(
as
the
Lord
hath
inabled
me
)
indeavored
to
chuse
,
and
improve
proper
subjects
for
your
Meditation
in
every
condition
that
befals
you
.
I
cannot
carry
these
Truths
one
degree
farther
;
it
is
the
Lord
only
,
that
can
make
them
effectual
to
your
Souls
.
But
it
is
my
earnest
request
to
you
Masters
,
that
have
the
over-sight
,
and
must
give
an
account
for
your
Companies
,
That
you
will
not
only
read
and
consider
these
things
your selves
,
but
that
you
will
at
fit
seasons
,
especially
upon
the
Lords
day
,
read
and
inculcate
them
upon
your
Servants
and
Company
;
and
that
,
as
those
,
who
must
give
an
account
.
Will
not
this
be
a
better
expence
of
that
precious
and
hallowed
time
,
than
to
spend
it
in
sleeping
in
your
Cabbins
,
or
drinkin
Tipling-Houses
?
All
that
sin
of
theirs
which
you
may
prevent
,
and
do
not
;
becomes
your
own
sin
.
And
have
you
not
personal
sins
enough
already
,
but
you
must
draw
the
guilt
of
their
sins
upon
you
also
?
I
beseech
you
,
and
it
is
my
last
request
,
That
you
will
faithfully
labor
,
that
you
and
your
Companies
may
serve
the
Lord
.
FINIS
.
Books
lately
Printed
for
Francis
Tyton
.
THe
Fountain
of
Life
opened
,
or
a
Display
of
Christ
in
his
Essential
and
Mediatorial
Glory
.
Wherein
the
Impetration
of
our
Redemption
by
Jesus
Christ
,
is
orderly
unfolded
,
as
it
was
begun
,
carried
on
,
and
finished
by
his
Covenant
,
Transaction
,
Mysterious
Incarnation
,
Solemn
Call
and
Dedication
,
Blessed
Offices
,
Deep
Abasement
;
and
Supereminent
Advancement
.
In
all
which
,
the
great
Supernatural
Mystery
of
the
Wisdom
and
Love
of
God
,
in
his
most
gracious
,
plenary
,
and
wonderful
Salvation
of
Sinners
by
Jesus
Christ
,
is
distinctly
explicated
;
and
in
its
several
parts
generally
applied
for
the
winning
of
Unbelievers
to
him
;
and
the
Confirmation
of
all
that
do
believe
in
him
.
By
John
Flavel
,
Preacher
of
the
Gospel
of
Jesus
Christ
at
Dartmouth
in
Devon
.
The
Saints
Temptations
wherein
the
nature
,
kinds
,
and
occasions
of
Temptations
,
and
the
duty
of
the
Saints
under
Temptations
,
are
laid
forth
:
As
also
the
Saints
great
Fence
against
Temptations
,
(
viz.
)
Divine
Grace
.
Wherein
the
nature
,
excellency
,
and
necessity
of
the
Grace
of
God
is
displayed
in
several
Sermons
.
By
John
Rowe
,
Minister
of
the
Gospel
.
Heavenly
Mindedness
and
Earthly
Mindedness
,
in
two
Parts
;
with
an
Appendex
concerning
laying
hold
on
Eternal
Life
.
By
John
Rowe
Minister
of
the
Gospel
.
The
Life
and
Death
of
Mr.
John
Rowe
of
Credditon
in
Devon
.
Christs
Power
over
Bodily
Diseases
,
in
several
Sermons
.
By
Edward
Cacorance
,
Minister
of
the
Gospel
.
The
Saints
nearness
to
God
,
a
Discourse
on
part
of
the
148
Psalm
.
By
Richard
Vines
,
once
Minister
of
S.
Laurence-Jury
in
London
.
The
Law
of
God
ratified
by
the
Gospel
of
Christ
,
or
the
Harmony
of
the
Doctrine
of
Faith
;
with
the
Law
of
Righteousness
.
Shewing
the
Moral
Law
,
a
Rule
of
holy
Living
.
By
Mr.
Maynard
,
Minister
of
the
Gospel
.
FINIS
.
Corrigenda
.
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Reader
is
desired
to
correct
the
Errors
of
the
Press
in
this
manner
,
before
he
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.
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26.
for
dead
read
deaf
,
p.
32.
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r
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97.
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14.
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thou
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145.
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world
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