Promifes to the poore in fpirit. nelle to dant thy heart:fo in the 66 of Ifaiah he begins it thus : The keaven is my 7 hrone,arìd the earth is +my footftoole ; ?he rai- fes up his Glory to fhew what á God he is : Alas now may a poore foule fay, o how glorious is God,his glory will daunt my heart, ,how (hall :1 be able to Eland before him : Nay, though Heaven be his Throne, and Earth be his foot Boole, yet he u ill looke to him that is of a poore fpirit, and that trembles at his Word. As if he should fay , Let no poore foule be daunted with my glory, for it is for their good, and: no hurt at all to them., 'The fourth is this ; The Lord he prepares his_goodnefle for the poore, Pfal. 68., io. Perhaps thou haft not mercy for the prefent as thou defirefl, but God is preparing all this while mercy for thee, and preparing thee fol. mercy. Fifthly, The Lord-heares the poore : It may be poore peo- ple may petition to others and they cannot beheard, but if the rich petition they can be heard : but the Lord he heares the poore ; you have many Scriptures for that; Pfal. 69. 3 3. And we find the Pfalmifi makes it a rife of his prayer,becaufe he is fo poore and needy,'P fal. i 09.22. ( For I am poore and needy ) that God Ihould heare him the rather : and fo the 86 Pfalm the rife of his petition is, that God ihould'heare him'becaufe he is fo poore. - Sixthly , The Lord will not have the expe&ations of the poore to be fruftrated : Poore nien may Waite and waire long enough, and yet may faile at the fall : But now if thou beef one of this poore fpirit, the Lord will not hive thy expe&ati- on to be fruftrated, bút there fhall come good of it ar laft, Pfat.9. 18. , Seventhly, The Lord will not forget the póore, Ffat:9, i 2. Others may fö' get them it may be even when they have gran- ted their petitions, but the Lordwill not forget the poore Many filch kind of promifes dorh the Lord make to thofe that . are of poor f li its. But what doe we fpeake tó particular pro-' mifes,we h veone in the text in (lead of all;T`hetrs is the king- dome of Heaven:This hath all promifes oyn'd together in one: --Now from the words before we- come to fearch into the bowells
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