46S A Chain of Principles. Aph. 6. for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that fhall come upon them make hafte. David expre%th it moll empha- PCalm 37, 353 tically .T have feen the wicked in great 36' power : and fpreading himfel f like a green bay-tree. (A tree that retaineth its vi- ridity and .frefhnefs even in winter when fruit-bearing trees have cafe their leaves) yet he pafjed away, and lo, he was not : yea I fought him , but he couldnot be found. Let fuch an onebefought in his counting.houfe, whichwas wont to be the temple, wherein he wor{hipped his God Mammon; he is not there. At Court wherehe was fo magnified, and almolI adored; he is not to be found in the lodgings there. He that would finde him, muff leek him in hell. For there he is. This is the end of inch worldly prosperity as cometh-from God, and yet defieth him. §. 3. The Corollary from hence is, let the fuperintendency of divine pro. vidence over all humane affairs in particular over Military and Civil be humbly
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