( 6i) that ~omes dowp. from Heaven·, is better Bread,thap that which grows tip out of the Earth, ~hough that be origjpally from He~venalfo. By how much the n:iore i111:mediately our comfortscome from Heaven, by fo much the more they Have ofHeaven in them. Ifupon the failing of publickCommunion-, , it be made up fo much the more 1n fecret , fure the Saints have no reafon eo complain. And whether this b~ no_t:.f9, let the Pri(ons;into which the Saints have bin fom~times cafi,the Wi,Idernefs into whiyh they have been f0metimes banilhed j let Elihu's Song~ in the night, Peters, Pauls, St.laghJ Songs in ~he .Prifog, in th~ Stock~, ftand forth afld teHifie. If Prifon joyes, and exile comforts , have not been ofte~ both fuller and fweeter to theJn, than ·when they have rolled in Manna, and Iivt::d in the fulnefs, and freedome ofall helps aad m~ans ; then not a few Chrilli'ans , hav~ either miilaken ;' or mif-reporte:d ~heir experiences~ , To'' pretend tolive above Ordinanc~s, whilell: God affords them , is a wickednefs that fome men have to repent of; but where God denies them, he cloth, he . will prov;de a better fu bfillance w,ithouc t~e'm. ·Now lay all this together, and then you will' fee, tpat even this alfo, this moft grievous of Jwdgements, the famine of the Word, when ever it oefalls, lhall work for good to thofe.that love God. , . Chriflians ~ chear up your hearts ; whatever. drought, or dearth may fall upol) the y./o~ld ; you. 'are provided for, you {hall hav~ et~ough. If the . lhours fail without,you have within you , that which lhaH fpring up to eternall life. If your fl:reams fhoulq be dryed up, if your _PaHures fhould be trod- , den do~n , you havea God,' that will be ~oth your_ Pa!Jor and PaHure. "'f the River fail yotf, the Rock fhal!
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