432 Chap. 29. An Expofití.n upon the Book ofJ c s, .Ve g as himfelf there profeff..rh, yet gí111 not forget thee : and to affure us that be will nor, he adds in the 16th verfe, Behold, Ihave graven thee upon thepalmes of my hands c thy walls are continually before me. Secondly, Obferve; They are fafe whom God preferver, In the days when God preferved /o6, nothing molefled or troubledhim. We.may be unfafenorwitbfianding all the promi- es and performances of men copreferve us; but if God will un- dertakeour prefervation, who can touch us ? (Pfal. t 27. r.)Ex- cept the Lordbuild the kaufe,ehey labour invain that build it :except the Lord keep the City, the watchman waketh but invain. h is in vain foryou to rife up early or to fit up late, to eatthe bread of for- rowel . for fohegiveth his beloved fleep. As if be had laid, if the Lórd be with us, all's well with us, and without him nothing is well with us : theyare fafe indeed whomCod keeps,and without his keeping (whofoever elfe keeps us) we are unfafe. That nine- ty-firff Pfalm is full of this affurance.,to the Saints; Thus it be- gins ; he that dwelletb in thefecretplace (that is, in the dove and poOvei) of the molt high, (hail abide (or lodge) under thefhadoty of the.Ilmigbty (his (hadow is our fubfiance, or our fubftantial defence,both=agaieft heat and force,as it follows in the zd verfe) 1will fay of the Lord, he is s»y refuge andmyfortrefs,tartly he fhall deliver theefrom thefnare of the fowler (the Devil) and from the noyfampeftilence (both that which would infe6, poyfon, and bill thy body, as alto thy foul, which Solomon in his prayerat the de- dication of theTemple (i Icings 8. 38.) calls the plague of eve_ ry mansown beart,yea andfrom the peailential woundsand flings of other merrstongues (As one of the Ancients expounds that Pfalm) that is, both. from fuck words at .would discourage and draw thee offfrom doing good, orfrom the good wayes ofGod; ,as,alfo from thole pefileatial words which would ' infecek thee with fin, and boyle up thy lull like a plague- fore': from the noyfome peffilence of all or anyof thefe kindes theLord will de- liver thee.; and(v.4,)JHe(hallcover theewith hisfeathers,and un- der his wings (halt thou truftrbis. truth f/?agAs thy fl¡ield,and buck- lsr. Infomuch that thou (halt not be Afraid (char is, thou needefá not to fear) for the terror bynight nor for the Arrow,tbatPith by day.
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