' A L L - s V F 1! I c I E N c Y·. ' '\ 1-S' ·good to their experience,and therefor.:>,whenfo . ever they findeany want,it is bell: for them to be fo; It is not either defect-in the power ·ofGod, or in the loue of God: For example, wb.raham lnflancu. ., .thought it ahard thing,a great croffe,that he was put to expe11Ijhmael his fonne, whom heloved~ Was it not better for A6rahttm~had he not an<:>- Nothing loll ther fonne that was fitterfor him borne of his i by o!Je)•ing ' 1 God ownewife~ And fo UJ1ofes thought it a hard I • thing,to be barred from comming into the land o[CatJt~an,but what loll: he by it~ was he not led into a betterCanaan, into Paradife, into amore gloriouscondition~ So likewife, when he went downe intoEgypt,ifhehad had atongue of elo. quenee givenhim,tohis will, that would haue fatisfied him: but was it not better for UJ1cfo.tto haue a{}ammering tongue, and yet to haue the workedoneaswell, Aaronandhe beingjoyned t~gether~ For by thatrneanes Mofts was kept hymble, and his loue like\vife was increafed. F~r rhatmutuaH indigence knits men together, when they haue need one ofanother. In like maner,Davi~hadan exceedinggreatdeliretobuild theT(mple,whe itwas not theLords will,thlt he fhould doeit;washealooferbyit. Davidwas at ; thattimenotfittohauedoneir, he was notable to hauedoneit, ascircumfrarrceswere: but was healooferby it)had not he a houfe builthim,as well as ifhe had built thehoufeofGodf had not he asgreat areward., as ifhee had performed it~ So likewife in the Ioffeofhis child, it was excee- \ 1 . · ding grievous to him, yer~. was it nGt better that ' - - E that
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