Background Image
Table of Contents Table of Contents
Previous Page  700 / 1054 Next Page
Information
Show Menu
Previous Page 700 / 1054 Next Page
Page Background

3

22

Eu1&i

to

help fools

in

the

way

of

'hangring.

rage

her, but

the

câme

and w

orlhipped

him faying,

Lord help

me,

the

would

not

Rand

anfwering

what Chriif

Paid,

but

her defires

was

flrong, Lord help me.

Fourthly, He antwered

and fold,

It

is

not

meet

to

mkt

:the

children

bread and

call.

it

to dogs

;

Here's

a fourth difcourage

ment,

faith

Chrift,

you

are

a

dog,

and-

this is:childrens mean.

I(

God

should

fpeak thus

to

you,

as

it

may

be you

think,fome

times.that God

(peaks thus

to

you,

you

are crying for meare,

that

you

might

be fatisfied with righreoufneffe, but

if

God

de-

nyes you

awhile,

you think,

he relec-s

you

as

a dog: Chrilf

did

tell the

woman

the

was

a

dog,and

onewould have

thought

this fhould

have

beaten her

off,

but this would

norrliCcourage

her,fhe

came

&

Caid,Truth

Lord,yet the

dogs

eat of the

crums

that

fall from

the children;

table:

truth

Lord,'

am

a

dog,

I

am

unworthy, but Lord

one

crum,

one crum even for

a

dog

:

and

upon this

Chrilf heard her,

and

then

fhe

was

fatisfied. This

was

from

a

mighty work

of the

Spirit

of

God

in

the heart of

this

woman

:So

in

your defires

after

this righteoulneffe,do

you

do

thus,when

you

have

difcouragements yet

get

through

them,

and you

will

be

fatisfied

at

fail,

there's

thoufands

that have

had

good beginnings,

but

they

have

been taken

otf

by

difcou-

ragements,therefore

labour

to

trample

down hindrances what

thou

canlf.It's very

obferveable.the liory that we

read

of

in

the

book of

Kings,

there

was

a

time that there

was

a

great

famine

in

SargAria,and

the

Prophet told them,that

by

themorrow

this

time corn

fhould be thus

and thus

cheats,

faith

the Captain,

it

cannot

be, though

God

i

lh,ould

open the

windows

of

Heaven,

faith

the Prophet to

him,.you

Thal

l

fee

it,but not

tall.:

of

ir,

and

when the time

came

the peotile

did

fo unreafonably

leek to

get

f'on

epartof

the

corne

that they might

fzrisfie

their

hun-

ger, that theyt

:

ú upon

the Captaine,and

though

he

were

the

fecond

mar

-.o

the

King,

yet

they

trod

him down

to the

ground and all th

-ough

their

earnefl

delire, that

they might

have

to

fatisfie

their hunger,

and

fo

thé

foul

that

is thus hun-

ger-

(farv'd

(as it were)

faith

6

that

I

might

have

grace,

I

am

undone

elfe, let there

be

What

ever

hindrance

in

the

way

there

will

be,

I

care

not,

I

will

be willing

to

part

withal!,

fo

be

it I

may