Sertn.18. on Divine Providence ? time ofTrufting in God cannot be laps'd. But more expre¡lj. There are force fpecial Inilances and Nicks of time for Trust. I. The time ofprofperity : when we fit under the warm Beams of a Meridian Sun ; when we wafh our flees in Butter and our feet in Oyl: when the Candle of the Lord Shines on Our Tabernacle:when our moun- tain is made ftrong : Now,now is a time for truft, but not in our moun- tain, (for it is a mountain of Ice and may fòon diflfolve) but in our God. Halcyon.days, to fome, are temptations to fecurity, but to Saints,times for trufi to Carnal perlons Lures and Duckoys to Pride ,but to Belie- vers, feafons for `Dependance. Now it is, That a Saint owns God as the Author, not chance, or his own Wit, and Iaduflry and implores his God to be the Preferver and Bleff :r of his en) )yments. When our Citern is full, our truft muff be, not in it, but the m Fountain. At our ni Cant.4.1 9. fulleffTables, we muff acknowledge, that as Bread is the n flay of n Ifa 3.1. our lives, fo that ft.> ff cannot Support, unlefs held in Gods Hand. Cods' blefng is the only (lay of that Staff of Bread. Man lives not by bread alone, indeed not fo much by ¿read, as by the ° word of Bleffing That o Mar.4.4. ,l proceeds out of Gods mouth. 2. The time of adverfty. This a'fo is a feafonable time for trnfl; when we have no bread to eat, but that of carefulnefs : nor wine to drink, but that of a fflafios and a4onifhment : no nor Water neither, but , that of our own Tears. Now is a time, Not for overgrieving, murmur- ing, finking, defponding, defpairing, but for troth vg. In a Tempeff,thcn a Believer thinks it feafouable to can Anchor up- ward. Thus did good P f ehofhaphat. O Our God, we know not what r 2 Chron. to do, only our eyes are unto thee. Thus David, what time I am 9 afraid 20. 12. I will trufl in thee. Times of trouble, are proper times for trufl, be the 9 l'fal. 56.3.E Trouble, either Spiritual, or Temporal. I. Spiritual trouble: Dath the child' of light walk in darknefs ? in fuch midnight darknefs, that he bath no light? Now is a time to Y truer Ifa. 5o.1o. in the Name of the Lord , and to flay himfelf upon hie God. Doth God take 706 by the neck, and Shake him even to pieces ? Doth hefts him up for his mark, and ?hoot fuch arrows into his Soul, that the poy- fösa of them drinks up his fpirits, why Now, when God is killing, yea, though he z kills, f o6 will truft. His Faith lives in the midff of death. z job 13,.15. Is a godly Reman fo fcar'd with the terreurs of God, that be is even a dsflraC.ied ; Though he be at 1-is wits,end , yet . not at his Faiths end. a pfal.88.ï 3, Remen will pray and trail, and hope, even vow, in this his day of Spiri- z 5, oral trouble. 2. Temporal: Is it an evil time?. A time of perfonal difirefs and vi_ Mièa fatatiex.. 431
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