\ . . \ ( 14) ' . Con!lder here two things. · . , · l. What his Cafe thet;l was; he was in great di~refi; he h?d,lofl: a~l, that ' ever he had; hjs ipoils that·· he had taken were all ~gone, his ~oni, and his ., G~tte'Il, his W~ves , and his City were all loll:; he had not an habitation in all the World; he had no– thing left him but a po0r Arn?Y , and thefe'were v:or1e then lofi, they vvere eve? rea?y "tO fall upon htm. The·people fpaks offlom.ng hvm , but he en.. ~oHraged himfelfin the Lord his GfJd. . 2. What the ,event hereupon was ,; why Gbd help' d him to all he had again =verf. I 9. There '.gM ' nothing lack,ivg to them , neither f malt nor-great, - ne~ther fons, nor daughter~, ; neither Jpail, nor anJ thing they bad tak.fn, Davtd recovered all. Hence note, · · I. That a Chrifiian whel) he hath loll all, haeh yet a Gpd to go to at lafl-. ' 2.. Whi1d1: a C·hrifl:ian hath a God to go to, hi~ cafe is ncve1~ defperate; le~ him but encou~ag·e him– felf in hi3 God, and all will be recoYered. I ·) . · Sinners, triumph not over the poor people of . God ; wh~n they are at their worfr; when they are brought as low as your Pricle and Malice can lay them ; though they fhould be fhipt nakrd, and lefc d~ltitue of all their cblnfons, though all the World·· fhould 1ide on their backs, and tread on their necks; yet rejoyce not ·againfi them: though thev fall, they lball a,rife; w~en ~h~y !re ,at their worfl, theres Hill help for them tn their l:1od. 3. The prefence of the LordChall be with them. Whither foe.ver they may De fcattered, they fiull not be fcattered from their God That Promife. made tqMofes';-E.xQJ. 33• I 4. MJpr(fen<eJhall _t(). ~ ' , , w~h \ \
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