Sam. 18. on Div' ine Providence 447 I II. Faith accurately obferves its Campais, by which it ffeers. Now there are feveral points in Faiths Compafs, or if you will,there are feve- raichoice Maxims or Axioms of Faith, by which a Believer fails, in and through the Blackrft Storms and Tem peas. Such asThefe, I. What ever the Hone be that's Thrown,'tis the handof Heaven flings it. In all the evils we either fear or feel,FA,ith lock/ beyond the Creature, and carries up the Heart unto Ged. No evil in the City, No penal evil, either on me, or mine, but the k Lord hath done it. Thus David,Dumb, k Amos 3.9. becaufe thou did f} it , Pfal. 39. 9, and The Lord bath bid Shimei curie, 2 Sam. 16. io. David could read Gods Hand at the foot of the Corn- mifon,though His Commanders could not. Thou couldeft have no powrr againft me, tulles I given thee from above, faith our Saviour to Pilate.' 3011.19.11. And Holl lob when plundred of all,faith not, The Lord gave, and the Chaldean, and Sabeans, have taken away ; the Lord enricht , but Sa- tan bath rob'd me : No,but as if they all had been bast Cyphers,and meer flanders by, The Lord gave and the Lord only, or at leaft chiefly, bath taken, Job 1.21. I I. Let the King of Heaven do his reorfi,yet even Then, He can do no wrong. This is a grand Maxime in the Rolls of Eternity. One of the Fundamental Laws of Heaven ; and that becaufe, I. God is the molt Soveraign God, The Supreme Lord, That knows no Law but His O w1ì Will,which is the Higheft and moll unerring rule of Righteoufnefs. Gods Hand is Gods only Ruie, and therefore what ever Line He draws, it muff needs be right. Our God is a Law to Him - felf, who only can write on His Imperial EdiEEis and proceedings flat pro ratione voluntoe. God doth and may juftly do, whatfoever pleafeth him, Dan.4. 3 5, and can moll juftly refolve the Keaton of all His Aäi- ons into his own will , That great Potter may do with his clay, what he pleafeth, and that without the leali Controul or contradiltion, Rom. 9. 20, 21. On this Account, Faith counts it wifdom, not to play the Cen- forious Critick,on Gods Adminiftrations, confidering that He alone is 'Av.vsvv*- aventvsvv 3-. According to that of Elihu, Job 3 3. 12, I3. God is greater than man, why doff thou firive againff him, for hegivetb not account of any of his matters. 2, God, as he is mall Jug in himfel f , fo Alfa he aft, mali juftly to me faith a believer.Faith jufli fees God in all his proceedings, i.e. fubfcribes and givesTeftimony to the Righteoufnefs of God, even in his tharpeft, Correftions.. Thus David, I Know O Lord, that thy ?udgements are, in right. Thus the Church , when under the Eabylonifh Captivity, m PC"9.75, (the heaviefi Judgement ever inflihd on any people) yet then humbly jets.
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