Head n. , Support. '1 2 5; yet my grace is not gone too. "f..ho' the Saheam have dli- · ven away my oxen and affes, and the Chaldeans have driven away my cameis; they have not driven away my /faith and my hope too: thefe are yet in me, they are not driven from me ; fo that by tlHiin/ I can fetch comfort froin heavec,' • when l can have none from earth. · · 2d/y, Chrill: fupporrs his people under a w·eight of inward · troubles and difcouragements. :rvtany times heart andjlejh fail them, bur then ·Ood iJ the flrmgth o.f their heart, Pfal. · lxxiii. 26. . They may h·ave a weight of guilt preffirfg them. This is ·a load that will make their back to fioqp, and ·the fpirits to fink: hut he t:akes it off; and puts a pardon in their t1and, while they cafi their burden over upon him. Chrit1 takes the foul, as on·e· marries a widow under a ·but ... d~L'f.of debt;· and fo when · the creditors come to Chrifi's fp6ufe, !he curies ·dH~m-to her·hufuaod; confdfeth the debt; declares ihe is not' able to pay, amllays all over upon him. The Chriltian fometimes, . through cardetinefs, lofeth his difcharge ; he caonor frnd it, however he fearch for it. The .~a w takes that opportunity ; and.bends up a procefs againfl: him for a debt paid alread.y. · God hides his face, aod the fbul is ,dillreifed •. Many arrows go through the heart now; many long accounts are- Jaid, before ~he man, which he reads artd ad<ln<;>wJ.edges~ · Often does he fee the .officers coming to apprehend him~ ~nd,· the prifon- door open to receive him. ' What dfe keeps hill}.from finking utterly under difcourage• ments it) this cafe. but that the tverlajling at·ms of a Media· to.r are undern'carh him, and that he relies upon the great e ~t utioner? !further, they may have a weight of {lrong lulls preffing them. i:hey have a body of death ~pon them. Death is a_. weighrthat prdfeth the foul out of the body, A leg or an arm of death' (if I may fo fpeak) would be a terrible load •. (One lively lull will fome_times lie fo heavy on a child of God,. that he can no more remove · il, than a child could throw a gi~nt'from off hjm.) "How then 'are they fupported under a whole body oj dea~h •? Why, their fupport is from the root that bears t.h · m, from·the ever/afl– ing arm that is und~rneath them · Hi1 grace i.J fv.fficie.nt .for them, 2 Cor . xii . 9 The great Hay of the believer is not the grace of God within him: tnat is a wel1, whofe. !h-ea.1m fometimes run dry ; but It is the gr-dce of God · y l 'Will!~ ' .
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