6'z PROVERBS. Chap. tg; hèr,and that hi mariner differing fromhis ordinaric and com- mon giftures. Houles, andlands arc his gifts alfo, and foarc riches, and all forts ofcommodities, but they arcordinarily, commonly,andmediately receiued from anceflors,as fathers, grandfathers, and great grandfathers, towhom the Lordhath giuenpowertoget, and kecpe goods, and awill to kaue them from hand to hand to their pofleritic. Estaprudent wife, a god- ly,wife, andvertuous wife, and in like manner, a religious, dit creet, and graci;,,ushusband, is f ons theLord, made fuch a one by his grace and ioyned to theyoke-fellow. Doa. Hour,and riches, &c. Nomancan pollìbly haue poííeffions ofequal' valewwithagoodyoke-tel low. This hath bene handled in the fourthverte ofthe twelfth chapter, and remaineth to be further inlarged in the Jail chapter. From the Lord, &c. Themore immediate any goodgiftof Go. d is,the more pretious it is. The bread which in the wildernes fell daily from the cloudes, was farre more notable, then if the Ifraelites had manured the ground, and bene prouided for ofcorne, and in ned an haruefl.And thebirth oflfaac, ofJohn Baprif1, ofSamar- el, and theShunansitesronne,was farre more honourable then if their mothers hadbenefertile, andapt to bearechildren. The ag.apd. bandfullofmealein thebarrel!, and thelittleaylein the crufe, which were long deked out to the poore widowe ofSarepta, were more tobe e[leemed of, then all Iezabels plentie ofviduals. Andfowas theoyle that was multiplied to the poore prophets widowe, formaintenance, and payment ofher debts, thenall Achads treafures. And wasnot Hezechias miraculous recouerie King.zó. better for him,thcn ifhe hadneuerbene licke, or tohauebene cured by Phyfìtions.? And the fame might be laidofthe rai- bc,r, rt f vpofLazarru, and Chrif his healing many, ofmanifold maladies,in theGofpell. ôni. For the Lorddoch by this make tnanifet}hisparticular pro- uidence,and refped to there perfons,vponwhomhis giftsand bleffings haucafter this mannerbene confirmed. T. Conlolation to thofe from whom hedetaincth fuchaccu- flomed ea
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