322 ,, 014.4 cá helpff#ls in the way of hungrirrg. rage her, but the cue and worthipped him laying, Lord help me, the would nor Eland anfwering what Chrift Paid, but her delires was firong, Lord help me. Fourthly, He as twered and foci, It is not meet to take the children bread and caffit to dogs ; Here's a fourth difcourage ment, faith Chrift, you are a dog, and this is childrens meat.. If God fbould fpeak thus to you, as it may be you think,fome times that God fpeaks thus to you, you are ctying for meate, that you might befatisfied with righreoumneffe, but if God de- nyes you awhile, you think. he rejects you as a dog: Chrift did tell the woman the was a dog,and one would have thought this have beaten her off, but this would not diCcourage her,the came & faid,Truth Lord,yet the dogs eat of the crums that fall from the children table: truth Lord,I am a dog, I am unworthy, but Lord one crum, one crum even for a dog : and upon this Chriti 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 delires after this righteoufneffe,do you do thus,when you have difcouragements yet get through them, and you will be fatisfied at la( }, there's thatfands that have had good beginnings, but they have been taken off by dilcou- ragements,therefore labour to trample down hindrances what thou canit.It's very obferveable the ftory that we read of in the book of Kings, there was a time that there was a great famine in Saroaria,and the Prophet told them,that by themorrow this time corn fllould be thus and thus cheap, faith the Captain, it cannot be, though God should open the windows of. Heaven, faith the Prophet to him,.you !hall fee it,but not tafte of ir, and when the time carne the people did fo unreafonably leek to get fo riepartof the corne that they might fatisfie their hun- ger, that theyt upon the Capraine,and though he were the Second may' -.o the King, yet they trod him down to the ground and all through their earn-ell delire, that they might have to fatisfie their hunger, and fo the foul that is thus hun- ger- itarv'd (as it were) faith ó 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
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