118 Chap.?. O f Ftrith a /`J.nbelief . Corn. r. ges, carneth wages toper it into a bag with holes, whatroever means they ufe, it profpers not. And the experience of this we fee to King 41t, albeit Phyfick be the ordinary means to recover health, yet becaufe he fought to the. Phyficians be. sChr.I6.12. fore he fought to God for .help, his Phyfick was '.accurred and he pined a- z Sam.r7.t. Achitophel,the Oracle of W iflom and Policie, gave .e we Counfel, but becaufe t4. he looked not up to God, Goo did not determine to biers it, but (as. the Text faith) 2-3 defeated it, and made the Counfel of Hufbai to betaoen and his rejected, and i,'e fee what became of him afterward i he feting hia Counfel was nor followed, ladled hisAfa, went and fct his bode. inorder and hanged himfelf. And fo the wildom of ECa.ty.r T. the 2-Egyptian Counfellors became footifh, infatuavit cos, God besotted thein,theLord PCaí.zo.7,e. made themgive foolifh Counfel. Some put their trait in Chatiots, and fomein Hoc- ks, but w e will remember the Naine of the Lord our God, they have ikumbled and fallen, but we are rifen and ftand upright. Now as there ordinary means of Clothing, Food, Phyfick, and Wifdom are ma- ny time,'accurfed, fo God to thew how little he .dependeth on fecondary means, cloth eff G his purpofe, fometimes without tneans,and fometimescontrary to means; Jof.6,zo. A. vn ùre NI of the Wals of gericho upon the blaft of Rams horns. So Gideon etfcourzs'e f by the expoiìtion of a Dream of a Barley loaf, wiih three htinz died m n with Trumpets and empty Pitchers in their hands, and'Lamps within them po all the 4uiidianites to flight, and to run upon themfclves. As .alto the great dadg,7.i3. Holt or theSyrians were put to flight, none purfuing them, but a pannick terrour camefuddenly upon them, and a certain imagination that r:ev heard the noire of Caari.,ts, Hol des, and a great Army of the Hittites and e/Egyptians that came to aid the i,elites. " I ',time then that God gives the means when he will; and blefléth them when it isour parts to truft in him, whether we have the means or no, and to be 2fal.;. affédtcd as King David was, though he were in themfaffof ten thoufand men armed, and compaffed soma with them on every fide, ÿ:t he` would not be afraid, but as it is in the end of the next Pfalm,would lay himdown and ficep crafting in Gods Pro teClion, and as Mofen counfclted the Children of irráel, when the e/Egpptians puns. rued-them with their Chariots, though their enemies were behinde them, and the Red Sea before them, and no way fern whereby to efcape, yet to Hand Hill and put their Exod.t4.t;. trua in the Lord, and they fhould fee the power of theLord, which they accord- ingly found. Rsa+a,sfir, So the Apoffledefcribing a true pattern of faith, fax before us that of Abraham, who had neither means in himfelf or his wire whereby to believe Gods promise o á Son, the being barren by nature, and havinga dead womb, and he a hundred years old, pail child getting bycourfe of nature, yet he flaggered not, but was thong in' Etch , being fully perfwaded , that he which had prorrifed was able to perfoim , and therefore received the blefing in the birth of I- faac... , . z And as we are thus to trail in God though we fee no means, fo mutt we be far Irvin he courfe of the wicked, who if God once fail them, do not only de- 'fpair'of his help, but call him off, and betake themfclves to his enemy, and to un- lawful means, and fach are they, that defpairing of Gods sifillatace in their health, -leave him and the lawful means, and flee to Sorcerers, a thing utterly condemned by the Prophet. We fee that Saul loft both the favour of God and his Kingdom for Efa.8, rg, converfing with a familiar fpirit. r clu.10.13. 3. Befides, there is a woe denounced againít another fort of people, that ( as Efa2.9.rg: the Prophet (peaks) Peek deep to hide their Counfe! from the Lord, that think by theirdeep policie and wiïdom they can deceive God as they do men, 4. Thereare others that take advantage of other miens weaktiefs,.and think that that which they get by over - reaching others in Bargains is their own ;;but the Apoftle I TheI46. tells filch, that God is the avenger of them. 5. Another unlawful means is, when we fee other means fail us, and thatagood man Rands in our way, then we do as chore agairift ?creme, let cis have devifes yr./S,ts. againithim, andperrutiamus eaatnlingua nnlfra, let us' .finite him with our tongue,
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