I ' ( JC?) . I make their enemies to be at ,peace witp them. He can make a league for them, with the B~alls of the 'field; with the Lions , ~ich theWol:ves ,, .with ,the ' tnoft bruitifb among the people. , He can fay to the pro~d Windsand Waves, peace, be Hill ,and they obey hitn . . He can give them refl: [ fr~m} the dayes / ofadverfitie : he can give them reH: [in] the dayes of adverfitie ':he can gh:'e his Beloved Aeep, upon the points of Swords and Spenrs. · ' 3. He thatis the God ofpeace, is the qod of ptt– tience. This is my greqt fear, that though God giw:s, · yet Llhall break my ~ peace; The c;od of peace with me? oh! this is he ~horn I diilionour, and difo.blige daily; by my difhu!h,difcontents,irppatiencies,mur– mutings, and what peace te> fuch an heayt ?. what p~ce, fo lont;· as fuch unbelief: fo muc_h iniquity ; as l find daily within mr,-remains upon nie? Will h~, vvith whom . no iniquity can dwell ., dwell in that heart,where there is fo much iniq 1 Jity, by which he is provoked eve.ry day! but he that is th~ God o.f peace, ,is alfo the God of patience ; who though he will not bear the iniquities of'his advei{aries, yet he will bear much with the infirmities ofhis People. Pfal.89.39. ' :;,r.c.IfJJu Children forfak.J my L~t"W , anti walk..._not · inmy 1 ] udgenie--11ts; zf they break.. mj Statutes, and . , .~eep not my Commalfdements; the~r will/ vijit 'their tra11[gr~f!ion_s witha_Rod , c§· their iniquities with ·ftri]us)Vevenhelcfs,my lovingk.fndnef wil I not ut– terly ta'/z.efromhim,nor fujfer myfati·hfuln~f 'to fail ' /.4· He that is the God of peace, i~ the G'od of hope. !-have not peace in poffdTion, whatcv~r there be in the promire• . I live in the ,fire? am born a man of <;:ontention. _What 1ikelyhood is tliere, that .I fl1ould ever live to fee a go?d day? my comforts ·are bfo~en, my ~Gate is loft , my ,Iibertie is gone ; fri er~ds
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