.g.-,sr- Sçrm. 18. on Divine Providence ? 4- meets : Neverthelefs his loving kindnefs he will not utterly i Pfa1.8 take from them, nor fuller his 1 faithfulnefs to fail. God never et brake his 9.33 word, by deceiving, nor crak-t his credit, by compounding, for lefs than was due, with any Mortal living. So Faithful is God, fo true to his Word, that let God but promife a Viaory, and 7ehofbaphat will found 2 Chronò an to Triumphe m before the Baud ; And let but he threaten Babylons so Ste. ruines,and the Angel cries,Babylon 11 is fain. Thus then Gods faithful- t3ev.i4.. nets calls for Saints truff, Pfa1.146. 5 ,6 This âlfo is a 5. Gods m ft holy ,wife, Powerful, gracious Povid. prop for trieft. It is the ° Lord, that gives -unto all life, and breath, and o AI}s 17. all things. It is in him all live and move, and have our being. T'ze 25, 28. P eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding of,<tnd providing for tlw ' Frov,i 5.8. evill & thegoed. This divine Providence the Egyptians acknowledged, and held forth in that lîgnificant Hiercglyphickot a Sun poutrayed in a Ship toffed with wind and w4ter,Eufeb.de prepar. Evang. 1.3,c. 3 .God bath an eye in the wheels and motions of all inferiour creatures,Ez.ek, i. I8,10. v ecQovó :áv d ir,tkktiyAcov 7rrtey. 7w Tévrc eve :of ó ärwí vts bOtolz31. Hence that holy Symbol of our Engiifh yofiah,Edward 6th viz.. A Cmlel }ial Globe with this Motto, 'Nihil fine Deo. It is the Lord that feeds the Sparows that have no Barn, and the Ravens that have no Granary. It is he that fo gorgeou fly cloaths the Lilles, that haveno Dift =.ff. Nota 9 Bird defcends from his perch, not an hair fats from q Matth. Io. the Head without this Father. Fear not then, ye are of more value than 29, 30, 31. many Sparows. Where God fends mouths he will not grudge meat : And tee that fceds the young Ravens will not fiarve the young r He. r yM`n de in to rons. Faith contemplates what God cloth, recounts what God hath done, his i:ife,f me- and from thence concludes what God will do. Hence it prayes with the whatdefpond- Pfalmift, Pfal.17.7. and 3 1.19. Faith reflee' s on former experiences, ing by reafon its own and others,and by the holy sk-il it hath in the Pbyfognomy of Pro- of her many videnee, clearly reads and collets what God will do, in what God loath Children, anti Email próvifi- done. it cafts its eye, on, on 'roe them, I. The experiences of others : and judges her felf to have an Interell in thofe very Providencesof grace, which they enjoyed. Thus the Church, a thoufand years after cha(heavenly combate betwixt God & 7acob, tells us : That God found 7acob in Bethel, and there he fpake with f u, :4. Hof.i2.4,. feveral Ages before they were born : yet with uó, i. e. with Yatcob for Arrnwf,nnñ our good, on our account, for our Interel }.Faith remembers there was chain 40I.4í6 once a 7ofeph in a Prifen, a 7eremy in a Dungeon, a Daniel in a Den, a 7enk,on Jude, Peter in Cb:ins, an flez,ckiiah on a fwppofeddeathbed, and Providence part. í.p286. .affitied them,why not ere ?This poor man cryed,apd the Lord helped him, Iii 2 ?fa.
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