56 Mr. jenkin's forenoon Sermon, may find mercy in that day : and truly Sirs, in chat day, mercy will be worth receiving. Fifthly; They fupplicate to God for them ; they do not go to the throne of Grace for theinfelve5, but Sion is in their thoughts. I am confident it is fo with fome, and amperfwaded it is fo with ail; they never beg daily bread for thernfelves but they remember Sion : In the 51. Kahn, David was under trouble of confcience, foul trou- ble, which is the foul of trouble, yet at the latter end of the 51. Pfahn, he breaks out into this earneft fupplication to God, Dogood in thygoodpleafure unto Sion, build thou up the walls ofJen" Calan : So long as it is ill with the peopleof God, fo long they are earneft with. God : and though they cannot overcome men with their prayers, (which by the way they are to endeavour) yet they will never leave fiipplicating the Almighty, till they have overcome: As the fuffec- ings ofGods people are precious in the fight of God, fo they are in the fight of the people of God. I come now to Phew whence it is, that there is fuch an highefleem in the people of God, of the peopleof God, when under trouble and diftrefi; : for this, take two heads ofReafons. 'In regard ofthofepeople ofGod that do behold their fufferings. 2. In regardof thofe people ofGod that are in fufferings. i. In regard of-thole people ofGod that do behold their fuller- ings, troubles and diftreffes, in three regards. Fiat, Thole of the people ofGod that look upon others in trou. ble, though they are filch as may differ from them in regard ofout- ward eflate : one may be in honour, the other in difhonour ' yet they have an intereft in the fame head, and do belong to the fame body that theydo, they are not wooden legs, nor glafs eyes : there- fore Chrift is called the common Saviour, and the Savionr of the body, the whole Church : Faith, it is called the like precious faith, 2 Pet. i. chap. in the beginning. The faith ofone believer does as truly lay hold on Chrift, as the faith ofanother. This falvation is called common falvation : my meaning is, this outward dif-pro- portion, as to birth and education, puts no difference at all in a fpiritual relpeEt, between believer and believer : a King, and a Beggar, all one inChrift : a yew, or a Greek, a great Scholar, or a poor ignorant man, as to the fpiritual Efate, all one, madehap- py the fame way. -- Secondly, Becaufe thefe look at fpiritual excellency, and are able to difcern fpiritual excellency : they have a renewed Judge- ment, as they look upon their old courfes 'and fins with a new eye : fo they look upon their company with a new eye : thofe that before they
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