Chap. 29. an expolition. upon theBook Jo B. Verf. 5. 4 S S Further, we may confider the Lords being with us two wages, Firm, More generally. Secondly, More fpecially. More generally ; the Lord is with all men, but not with all men alike ; firfi the Lord iswith all men by a common provi- dence and pretence, to fupport andpreferve them; man could neither live nor move, unlefs the Lord were with him. Secondly, The Lord is with all mea to provide for them; He canfetb his San toplane upon thegood and the bad,andhis rain tofall on the juff Math.9,45. and on the unjufi. The whole world is his family, and he feeds them every day. Thirdly, The Lord is with all men, to obferve what theydoe. He loketb frombeaven,faith David (P1111.33.13, 14,) He beheldetball thefono ofman,from.the place of bis babttatt- on be looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. He looketh upon their perfons, and he looketh upon their actions i He feeth who they are, and how they are employed. Fourthly, the Loral is with all men, to order and over-rule them in their doings, to move or flop them in all their ways ; whether would the hearts of men carry them, and what would their hands doe, if God were not wich them to refirain them ? wicked men would be boundiefs in their workings and uneven walkings, if God did not-check.and bridle them : did nor he fay to the pride, wrath, and rage of men (as he doch to the proud andragingwaves of the Sea) hitherto thall yecome and nofurther, who knows how far they would go, or where they would fit down ? In all tbefe fences God is with all men, even with the worfc of men. And they are fometimes fo fenfible of the Lords being with them , that they are burdened with ir, and would fain be rid of him, as was chewed (Ghap.2a. 14.) they fay, to-the Almighty, depart from sm. But when Pb faith, there was a timewhen The Almighty tugs with me, we are nor to underfiand it of his favourable and ipe- cial pretence. God it with his people in a peculiar diftingui(hing way ; be is fo with them,that he is alto for them. The Apoftle gives us the ground of this didiinetìon (I Tim. 4. to. ) YYa trufä in the living God,wbo is the Saviour ofall meñ,efpeciadly ofChofe that beleive. As there is a fpecial falvation, fó there is a.fpecial pre- fence of God, which is the foiepriviledge of the Saints, and in which they onlycan call him Immanuel God with are. I will be to that
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