( I 'I (i8) ,not hence. We had ~ather be where we are, in a Wil.. dernefs with God, than to go toCanaan, & leave our God behind us. If thy pre[ence go with us, we are willing to go, when th?u wilt, wl}hher thou wilt, whi~h vvay thou wilt; though by the Tents of E4o– mites, l(hmdelites, Maitbites, H ag~trens; though through the Armies of A nak..i·ms, Z .llJ»ZJHmmim$ : wee'J go any whither, fo God go with us. The ab.. fence of God makes a (tJtnaan worfe t~an a Wilder– nef :the prefence of God makes a Wilderne[S_ better then a Canaa11 : Apd this prefence of G.od, lhall be the Lot of all his Saints. I ' . I ?.V. a f. 2. If God be with you, all ihall make for you : All Provideptial Occurrences, and Events vvhatfoever: All nifficulties, Straits, Difa!lers, Dif– appointments ,. whatfoever, that may come· upon you, {hall make for your good. Rom. 8. 3I. ![God be with m,wha can be againft us?Who~an be againft us ! that ]s, None can be again'ft us: Or if any be~ yet thofc t~at are again!t you fi1all be for you. Gen. 42. 36.Jofeph is not,andSi1non is not (fa id old J~r~ cob) and mufi Benjamin away too! all thefe things are agajnfltne;but yc;t as old as he was,he lived to fee alJ making for him. Rom. 8. 26. We k.now all thing1 JlMll wor/z together for good to thofe that love God. This is fuch a Promife, as , if it were throughly be. lieved , would fet our feet on the necks of all our ' feats and dangers, and will prove the truth of s ~tmpfon~s riddle., Out of the eater came meat, _andout of theflrang,'[weetnej. . Now becaufe there is fo grea.t encouragement to godlinefs in it , ·I !hall fp~nd the more time in inlarging upon ir.; and iliall L11ew, . 1'. J yvhat thofe things are whi~h are efpecially ifil-:– , · , c~ded, I I (
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