' (46) n1ife of God ofnone effe6't, by looking for its:'~~ee\ .eut of feafon. . · · . Believe not your felves into lnfideFty.: Co~fider, .Afls 1.• 7.It is not for )DU ta~now the tunes and the [eafor.JS., which God h~tth put i, his owtn Power, ' Study t}Je Word, and its cmnmentary, the Woiks of God;but be fober in your Conclufions. This you 1nay iafely depend up<?n, and this will ' · be enough, if you have no more: Godwill make good his good Word to you, fooner or later, in one , time or other,in one way or other; in the belt time, in the belt way, in the appointed .time, the Vifion lhall fpeak and ihall not lye, Hab~k., 2. 3. Though it may t arry,wait for .it .;be(~t!,lfe it willfure!J come; and will not tarry: At lealt, at the end of the d~ys. when, you fuall Hand i11 your lott: when you fhall be gotten on the banks ,of CttNaan, and iliall thence look .back on the Promifes and Providences of God, you fball fee and .fay, God i~ faithful, there bath · not faile~ _ofle .:~ord of all that he hath promifed! Now I underfian4, though once I -could not, how every Wheel was turning, every Inilrument was . movlng, every event was working towardmy good and everlafl-ing welfare. · . .. ~ 2. Let not your expeEfation CP!,t<~[e an ahortiQn.Let not your looking for mercy, hind~r _the workingof your affiicHm.'l·_i le is riot feldo~, and the Lord 'grant it be not too common a cafe, that our door of hope becomes a door· of fin. we· do not fet "our felves with that ferioufnefs, to humble) - to. purge our fel ves · from our iniqtlhics, as we would do; 'did yve.e a'ppre.. · hendour cafe more defperate; : our fears and QUt' · farrow~ raue. not their ~indly Work Ut>on us, . our hope b1nde.rs lt. We mt~ht hav~ b~en more broken . hearted · /
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