448 bow are we to live by Faith Serm. 18. n Larn,S.18. Pets her feel to Gods 3uflice. The Lord is n Righteous, f or I have re- Nth 9. 33, belled again ft him. III. 'Tis not fit, that poor, weak. fhort-- fghted, finf ul creatures fhould be their own Carvers. if they thould, they would, like r Jh children, cut either Too much, or Too little, or Their own fingers. Well for us, o FfaI.31 i 5. That as our ° Times, fo our Conditions, are not in our own, but in Gvds hands. Not what I pleafe, faith Faith, but what my God pleafeth. He knowsbeft what's good for his people : and I know,.had God granted rely requetis, and fulfilled my dcfres, I had long lince been undone. The cooling drink which I fo pafcnately delìrcd in my burning Parox would have added to my flame, and quickly dif ,atcht me to the hf fe of darknefs. Hence it was, That the honefiz Shepherd, being askr, What weather it fhould be to day, replied, even what weather I pleafe. Not fo, faith the Other, but What pleafeth God. Tea fo, replies the Shepherd, for what ever pleafes God,Jhall be fore to pleafe me. I V. Better to want Outward Comforts, Than enjoy them without my Fathers good will. Ifrael had been better to have been without ails, They had four fauce to their fweet meat ; whi'e the Flefh was in their a' Numb.tt.20 mouths, The P plague of God was in their nofrils, You will weeds have this, and That, and t'other Thing, why, rake it, faith God, but then take myCurfe with ii too : The Sack, but poyfon wi h it. You (hall have ir, but in wrath. See i San, g_ 5, 6, 10,1 1, I2. Hof.13,11, Gen.30 r. Rachel you will have children, or elfe you will cake pet and q die. You ¡hall have children, a Benjamin to your 7ofeph, which yet (hall prove a Benoni, His Intrat will prove your Exit ! his life your death Gen. 3 5.18. Better were it for David to be without A ichol than that ße t r Satn.t8.2t. fhould, being enjoy'd,become a r fnare. V. Seem it never fo ill, yet it is Really well. On thrfe Two Accounts, 1. It cannot but be will with him,with whom God is.'Twas not Ill with the three children, though in a fiery Furnace,io long as God was There, r Pf.23.4: Dan. 3.z5.Suppofe David walking in f the Suburbs of death & danger, yet not ill with him,becaufe God with him.W her:God lays /roil be with you, as he has,Ifa.4.3.2. and I feel Him, faith Faith, It is in finitely more to me, than if he fhould fay, peace, health, credit, honour, plenty, thall be with Thee.God being with me,is all thefe,and infinitely more. In thefe I could have but a particular good :In a fingleGod I haw all good.Now God, who is with his prople,at all times, is moll' with Them, and mof "Domitianus infweetly with them in the* worf times. As their 410 increafe with - 3`oviifinre, out, fo do their Cenfolationswitbin, z Cor.i,5, when the child is moll' Sueton. fick,,then it is moft dandled on the mothers knee : when it begins to feint, Then
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