Serm. 18. Stoical, we must be patient and fubmifve. Though we may not be like the Cafpian Sea, that neither ebbs, nor flows,yet we mull take heed of being like fwelling, roaring waves and billows. Though Gods Turtles may, through in firrniry, flutter, yet they may not be like Bulls, when caught in a net, raving. I was C dumb, faith David becaufe thou didJt c pf41.39,9. it. Away then with thofe fairly looks, that do as it were, enter a pro - tefi againil what we f of fer: nay more,beware of thofe murmuring eccho's and reply! of Spirit within, againí1 God,who though they Teem Co yield and run,yet, with the flying Parthian,thoot their Arrows backward,in difcontent againft God. 5. All fïn ful and ungrounded Doubting of Gods love, in and under fur fcrings. How Gods Heart inclines, cannot infallibly be gathered from Gods Hand. Faith many times difcovers Love in Gods Heart, when it fees nothing but frowns on Gods forehead : and knows, that frequently when His Tongue chides, His d BoWels yearn. Is Ephraim a d jer.31.2o. dear fin ? is he a pleafant child ? Is he ? 14144 no, Rather he is a petcttiih, untoward, undutiful child. True, but yet a child, and therefore,fince I fpake againft him, Ide earneflly remember him frill, my Bowls are troubled for him, I will j urely have mercy upon bim. Yea more, Faith is fo far from Arguing, that God has thrown His Love out of His Heart,when he Takes his Rod into HisHand,that it ratherfrom thence argues the quite contrary. I am now therefore beloved, becaufe chAfli. fed. Whom 1 love,I rebuke and e chaiten. Faith knows, that a Fathers e Rev.3.i9: Correction is fo far from being an argument of wrath, that it is one of Amos 3.2. the clearefl' Evidences of Lave. Better far to be a chaflen'd fon, than an Heb.t 2.6. undifciplin'd Baflard : No Anger like that, Ifa. z. 5. Why fhould ye be Stricken any more ? ye will revolt more and more, and Exek. 16. 42. I will be quiet, and Iwill be no more Angry. Ephraim is joyned to Idols, Let him alone, Hof. 4.. t 7. Then is God moll r angry of All when he f tine maxime n e b to eth ref . fitur,quane f f g r ira y de non trafcí- 6. Fainting, finking, de.ff onding, de(f airinn , under Gods Correction. d super e-- As Faith looks upon it as a great fin to der ife the Lords ch ft ning, fo 1e,,,;rat it holds it for no fmall infirmity, to faint ,when corrected by hill, Heb. feratioiJ}a. 12.6 This was that for which David fo roundly <hid, and rated His Bern. S nil, why art thou call down O try Soul, why art thonfo dt fquietedwith- in me ? Trufl thou in God , Pfal. 42. i i. If thou faint in the day of Adverf ty, thy flrength is but fmall, Prov. 24. i O. It argues thee to be a man of a (hort, narrow, pufìPlanioud, poor, low Soul, to faint and finkin filth a day. Thus we have fhewn you the Rock!, the Dangerous Rocks, which Faith warily avoids. L 1 1 2 II. Faitls on Divine Providence, ? 445
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