I___F_ ---~ ': might continue your comfons toyou,f?ut when !t therc is a ·change in heaven, then comes the ·change upon earth.And on the other fide,if God continue confia_nt, ifhe remaine fafe, you need ;feaPe nothing, the Creature followes him, it is T_heCrtature· he thadhines t-hrOtwh them. What ifaman-had wuhout God . · . • • 0 . . h . ' astheayre theayreand noltghtll1lt':" So, W at Ifwehad · ·withouclight. never fo much,and no qeames flowing fr omhim .throughthem,whoonly is the Godf)fall comfort, . ('• . ' ·God'comfons his in an ex· traordmarie wa}•twhen o.. ther meanes fa tie. ln/fance 1. · nnd rheffat·htr ofall confolation <;" · <.Bur-my 11'elpved, t t?. be briefe) Put the cafe a tnan werdhipt of allfhings, &.fuppofe he were exiled0ut ofhis own Country, fuppofe he were , reduce9t:oextreame pov_erty, or ilmt up clofe· Pr.ifuaer, Tuppofe all irriployments were taken from him, and Ire were layd afide like a broken ve'fldl ;now for a man tofay, yet God is enough · a.rid rh:~t he i~ content withhimalon·efor his por– ·ttrort. Tha,t ~ s the tryalf,and this we ought to do: .a:nd therejis great reafon why we ·ilwuld due i_t; you 'fhal fee: itwaspr~h.~ifed bv theS:tints:\Vhen A'br..thrt-m \Va'S<tn exile from ·his Country, and :h?d nota.footeofland,was·notthcLordAll-(uf– 'f~ient to hi-m,oidhe ndt provide for him aboun– damlyfWheri EHah ·aed,and had no mear, he had neither mony ,nor any ho.cfy to provide any thing forhim,di9 not theLordprovide for hi':l~ . he fet theC~reatute"a~worke to doe that, to feed~ him in anex-tta6miQaryway;when the o'rdjnary ' Jay1ed)JYHeh ~P4itP:u18sitds }vheihueup. 1 in f>ii- ! fen, yet rh~L-t-?;d'filledthemwith joy and corn– 'fort; youknow the-ir feet were£11! in theftocks, • J • · • yet
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