306 Chap. 28. ExFoftion upon the book, ofJ o B. Verl. 24'1 ,III an Angel found her aryd bid ber return tendfsobmit her feif toher her vlliJirefi. A- d the called the name ofthe Lord, that (palee ante her,ThouGod feefl me ; for fhefaid,have I alfo here lóokea ofer him tea' feeth me ? !therefore the well was called Beer- lahas-roi, that is, the well of him that liveth and teeth. She repeats that atof God Peeing her three times. Fiat, the called him, Thou Godfeeft me; Secondly, him that teethme ; And thirdly, the called the well, The wellof him that livetb and feeth me. God ever liveth, and be ever teeth, and he fetch every perfon. Hagar a le. vant as well as Sarahher Miflrefs, and he law her in her flight fromher Mf{refs, . as well as in her abode with her Mìf}refs. Afparrow falls not to the ground without him,(that is, without his obiervence and tiler- ance) and the very{mires of our bead are all rumbre' ( Math. to.: 29, 30.) Birds fly freely, yet fall byadivine difpoe, not as the fowler pleafeth. This providential fight of God isput&ua1and to a hair,he feeth the whole univerfe as precifely as any individu- al, and he fetch every individual as precifely as if he bad but one individual to fee to. When Abraham had patted thatbard exer- cife and tryal of his faith, the offeringof his fon Ifaac '( Gen.azó.. 14) H: called the nameof the place Jehovah-lireb, as it is fail to thisday,in themount ofthe Lordit ¡hall be feen. The Lord will fee, or the Lord will provide, the Lord feeth fo as to provide t His is- or a bare fight, -his feeing is the providing for, and the fihr dif_ potiing of all things in his fight. TheLord feeth and p ovideih fes c:retly for thofe that fear him, as Abraham did, and he will be fan evidently in bringing them fuccour and u.opply in their great-, etc Rraites and wants, as he did roAbraham. This name of God either in the Active or Paílive fignification of ir,Jebovab-lireh,_. the Lord feetb,or,the Lord is/sen,was fo famous in the old Church,, that it grew intoa facred p-overb (iáirh Mofes there) 4s it is fail to this day, in the mount of the Lordit(hall be feen. He feeth under> the whole heaven. Hence Note, Fitt, what ever is lone in< the world, falls under the notice and cg'iz<ar,ce ofGod.. He that looketh to the ends of the earth, and feetb under the whole, heat en, in the fenceexplained,cannoc but rake notice of all that is dote, or comes topats all the world over..(z:Chron. t 6. 9.)The eyes
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