454 Chap!! 29. a/In Expofition upon the Bookof J o B. vert 5 and maintain both our fpirits and our cattle. Thus fpake Caleb and fofhua toquiet the murmurings of the people(Namb.14.9) Only rebell not ye;ogainfi the Lord, neither fear ye thepeople of the land, for they are breadfor oe ; their defence k departed from them, and the Lord iswith as ; fear there not. The men that accompa- nied Caleb and jofhua in the fearch of the Land, gave a very dif- couraging report of it (Numb. 13.32.) The land through which we havegone tofearch it, is a land that eateth uP the inhabitant: thereof. Not fo (replied Caleb) you are quite milfaken ; we (hall quickly eat up that land, They arebread for us ; their high walls cannot defend them, for God who is the defence of a land, bath withdrawn hispretence froìn them, and is withgas,. Thirdly, It is ufcd by way of requef+and petition, by that holy man f acob (Gen.28.2o.) IfGod will be withmc, and will keepmein the way that Igoe, &c. As if he had Paid, Lord, I defire no more of thee but that thou wilt be with me ; thy pretence will be my protec%on from evil, and that will alfoprocure me all good, Fourthly, 'Tis ufed by wayof good with to or prayer for o- thers (Ruth. 2.4.) endbehold Boaz camefrom Bethlehem, and faid unto the reapers, theLord be with you. The fame is ufcd by us in common fpeech, but with two common and unferious a fpirit by the moll, when we take leave of friends, Godbewithyon. Fifthly, It is ufed by way of prophetic (Gen. 40. a 3.) And, Ifrael Paid unto jofeph, behold Idye, but God fisall be with you, and bringyouagainunto the Land o fyourfathers. I am going the way ofail fleth, but God will abide with you, and became he will, I knew you (hail not alwayes abide here, but return to your own land. Sixthly, We find it ufedbywayof Hiffory (Gen. 39. 2i.) But theLordwas with 7ofipb,and !hewed himmercy, andgavehim favour in thefight of thekeeper ofthe prifon. Lay all i hcfe formes of fpeaking together, and it appeares that the bet} thingwhich God canpromife, is tobe with us ; the heft thing which man can pray for, or believe he (hall receive at the hand of God, is that he ,Ncuid be with him; the bell thing that can be foretold ofor wifht for another,is that God will be or would be with him;and the belt report chat canbe made of anymans profpericy is this, the Lord hach been with him or was with him. Further,
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