Y. Command. vpon=ehè Commandements. 13 till that whereof faith. inferreth a condufion comfortable, Iaacob, feare not, God, thy Gad is no.man, that hee fhould change, hee bath defended thee, and fiill bee affured ofit hee will defend thee. Thus did David when hee fhould fight z. Sam,t7. againfl Colzath, hee remembred what helpe hee found again(} the paw of the Beare and the Lyon, and then affured himfelfe by gaffed prooteoffo good a G O D, Mat,r6'9'' bee fhould not mifcarrie with rhePhzhfine. Thus dealt ChriP with )his doubting Difciples for want offáode, willing them to remember what a multitude with a verse little they had fettle relicucd, and yet plentie remayning, and cues for fhamcby paired triallofGods power to bee ilrengthened in a ffurance touching Deut;q that which was cotne. And if you reade the 7. of the j 8. verle, it is xveriefit place to this end. But peraducnturc you will fay iris not a found bull- ding, to conclude,becaufe God hath bene good,therefore 1 ee will bee good.Yes indeed is it, and that courfe of building which the Scripture vfeth in fundrie places. By name it is the argument ofPaule to the Corineihians, that therefore God 'Cot, S. would confirme them to the end, ,becaufehee had begun agood worke in them, and becaufe G O D is faithfull, marke that. The like doth the fame Apollleto the 'Philippians, 7hefalorians, andtoThata- Theft thie, betide other places. And 'Perry in his Epifiles againe the very fame. And ITimo.4.1S. pray you marke but what you knowe. Doth not the to_rmer tried goodnes of a yPct.t.;, mortals man worke in him that findeth it, agood opinion, and euen a confidence in that man, if hee should need againe to him ? O what comparifou betwixt man and G O D? The one is mutable in liking and fauour , the other whom he loueth, to the end heeloueth them : the onefubiedto diminution ofpower, fo that if Pfalmsy. bee would bee as good as bee bath bene, yet can hen not : the other in power al- mightie euer, fo that what hee will , hee can at all homes. Therefore challenge you the Lord as David doth boldly I warrant you. give u haft been my fnccour, O Lord, then lmue me not now, euither forfal e me O God o f my faluaticn. Quell. 'Doe notnow allzhefedasreie.r znferre thanitfeiuing onto the Loÿd? Anf. It muff neetles bee fo: for certainlie, it we bee bound to know, to loue; to feare, to trufl in, and pray to the Lord at all times, and for all wants, by the fame lawe weemuftneedes bee bound to rice thanks to him for that meafure of grace which inanic ofthefe duetieshee befloweth vpon vs, and for his great be- ,Tócd:5. rs° nefiteswhichwe receive, Quell. But bath thin &retie no otherproofe? Pualmao;. e/lnf Yes indeede: Expreffe and plaine commaundements, that in all things Luk.t, wee fhoulde giue thanker. Euident pra&ife ofGods children, as ofDauid, crying vppon his foule to praifache Lord; and vpon all that is within him topraife his ho- ly name: oft -Warne profeffing that her foule did magnifie the Lord, and that her fpirit reioyced in God her 'Sauiour,with many fuchlike. Qu e ft. Since then this dseetie both is commanded, -and hath ofGode children been cure open all occafons focarefully performed, mee thìnjc at our meates efpeczally reeJhould remem- Saying of her it. grata at the Anf. Trudy you haue named a time and occafion, when indeed Chriflians table. fhould neitherforget not fhame to looke vp vnto'uhe Lord, & to praife his name. For euen then haue they his mercies before their eyes, to put them is minde. Which if they receiue thankfully, theyreceiue rightlie : if not, then very dange- roufly, both in refile& of the creatures themfelues, which, as the Apoflle faith are Tim' not fantified otherwife veto vs, that wee may receiue thêwith a good confcience, then by the word and prayer, and alfo in refpc 4 of the breach ofGods comman- dements, who, exprefly willed his people /pad, and in them cues all others, that when they had eaten and filled theanfelues, they fhould,bleffe the Lord their God for the good land which hee had given them. Betide which reafons yet euen Deut.B,ty. further wee have the pra.Rife of the madly to call vpon vsYfot this dutie. For it is well noted, that the fame people_ rualenof the Lord, the /ewes Imeaner, did not fit J
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