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VER.
2o.
8phefian.r,Chap.3,
mighty to bring
us
through
all difireffes:
though the
devil',
ae:i
the
world
be
mighty, yet God
is
Almighty.
The
want
of
this confiders.
tion makes
Gods
children
to
faint
when they
fee
the power of the
flefh
and
Satatíto
ftand againft
them
,
they think then they
!hall fall and
come
to
nothing; but
be
they Gods
children
then reft
affured
=
though
we
fee
all things turned upfide
down;
and one mifery
follow upon the
head
of
another,
like
the
waves
of
the
Sea
,
yet let
us
truft to this
in.
comprehenfible power
of
God,
and we
fhall fee all
things confpire
Rams.
it.
and
worke for the bell.
2.
It
is
to
be marked
hence,
That in
our
thoughts and prayers there
rs
imperfeElion, they
come
fhort
of
that
God doth
for
W.
For our pray
-
ers,
look at
them
in
whileof
temptation, they
are
not oncly
defcs.hve,
but the
flefh
doth fometimes creep
into
them.
But
when
no inordina-
cy
doth
clofe with
us, yet they come
fore
fhort
of
that
our
Father
worketh. Compare
Gen.
28.20.
with
Gen.32. 10.
Pftl.3r.
3.4.9.
So
our
thoughts often
in
temptation
,
Oh
how
farce
wide
of
that God
thinkethI
David
after
fo
many
experiences, thought
Saul
would
kill
him at length. I!hall
one
day
peri
j]i by
the
hand
of
Saul.
Efay
40.27.
why
sum.
:7. t.
Melt
thou,
o Jacob,
my way
is
hidde
fromthe
Lord;and
my
judgement
is
puffed
over from
my God?
Haft than
not knowne?
Haft
thou not
heard that
the everlafling
God the
Lord,
fainteth
not?
Efay
49.
54. Zion bath
faìd,
The
Lord bath
forfaken
me,
and
my
Lord bath forgotten
me.
So
the
Church complaineth, Lam.3. 18.
My
firength and
my hope is
permed
from
the
Lord;
but howfoever
that
is
true
ofthem,
Efay.
55. 7.
c-
y
thoughts are
not
as your thoughts ,but
look bow
much the
heavens
are
higher
then
the
earth,
fo much are
my
thoughts
above
your
thoughts.
For the
Spi-
rit doth
teach
us as
to
aske
with
confcience
of
our unworthincs,
fo
that
we cannot
aske
modeffly
fo
much
as
God
can
give
of
bounty,
And our thoughts
are
too
fhort
a
meafure for
Gods working, which
is
incomprehenfible.
so
then
we
mull not build upon
out felves,but
goe out
of
our felves,
Yfe.
and leane
upon Gods mercy
and
power,
yea wee muff
be confident;
for
if God
working for us,
doth
exceed our asking
,
we mull
then
ra-
ther
afire
our
felves
that
we
thall have
more then
we aske
or thinke:
A
man
cannot have
too
much faith
in
prayer.
According
to
the
power
which worketh
inus.]Whencewe
are toobVerv,
DoPI
That
even
with
us,
and in
nu,
there
is
that ftrength
which
can accomplifh Thee
is;n u,
our
hearts
defre
:
for there
is
no
leffe
power
working
in
us
then the
woo
ernggvhich
power
of
God,
which
can
fubdue
all
things
to
it felfe
;
this
Both
bring
can
aceom
us
to beliefe;
called
therefore the
exceeding
greatne
fib
of
his power
to
us..
phth our
ward,who believe according
to
theworking
of
his
mighty
power.
This'
doth
&phef
det're*
keep
us to
falvation,
we
are
kept
by
the power
o
f
Godshrough
faith
to
filva-
tion.
This
Both
enable
us
to thinke,
1peake,
will i worke according
to
`.
pet
-t.
s.
God. We
beare affliltions according
to this;
Be
thou
partaker
of
the
af-
a
pet. r.
8.
icáiens
of
the
Goffrell,
according
to
the
power
of
god.
So that hencewe may
fee
how far
we are wide,
that
When
we
feele
our weakneffes,doe
think,alas,there
is
no.ftrength with us,for whenwe
0
o
3
are
Doe.
Our
thoughts
and prayers
come
thou
of
that
Gcd
dotti
for
ars.
Pie
r.