Verte. 14. {}owed helloes and tneanes offafetie, or fufinance, as others wontedly enioy,and refèrueth them, by hirnfelfe, in a peculiar manner to beprouided for. In this caleare many teemingwho- 1y forlorne, and vtterly deflittite ofali aide and fuccour, who may trtiely be Paid to line by faith, not onely for falu:.tion, andeuerlaIing life, for foode, apparel!, harbour, and lodging, with other needful! things appertaining to this life. Their maintenance ceafeth, their arength fáileth, their friends for - fake them, theiraduerfaries purfue them, andyet they are not without corn forts,and refrefltings. Theyhaue nothing to take too, or depend vpon,andyet behold theywant nothing . Eliah 'found the fidelitie of this prouidence for his foode in the time ofthegreatdrought and fcarcitie, when hecould corne by no other mcate, but that which a rauenthould minifler vnto him, I,King,6,i and that kindeofcreature is feldome a good purueyer, or ca- ter, and yet was he no day negleâed, as being difappoynted either ofbreadorfeIh,fordinn:r,orfupper. And S. Pan/among others, hadexperience ofthe fame for his preferuation, in the timeof liis tribul ations,Weareaffliçted,faith he,oneueryfide,yt t areWe notin d!jqreg - : in pouertie, but not ouercot 2e o fpouertie. We 2.Cor,4,84 areperlecuted,but notforfaln: caftdowne, but weperifh not. The Lord bath a principal! hand in all good marriages. A Don, ;. vertuous wife for a faithful] husband, is not a patrimonie be- queathed byparents, but a free, and fpeciall gift bellowed by God : though commonly procured byhumane induftrie, as a meants ofthe match, yet def}Mated by a diuine decree as the appointer thereof So much is expreifed in the-former chap- ter, where it is (aide, that. he which findethaWife (meaning fuchProu.is,s,z a one as is here fpeci fled) findeth a good thing, andrecei.wethfauour of the Lord. This is euident to be fGene in the cafe of Isaac, and Rebecca: Abrahams feruant was well acquainted: with this point,and grounded his praier vpori it, deliing toknowe by a figne (which in deed was extraordinarie) what wife God hador- Gctt. 24.4 dainedfor hisferuant í aaek, and that he had(hewed rnercieon his naait}er. And thecfie&'Was foahparant, that euenLaban; an verte, a, 5 d S Betbud, were driuen toacknowledge it directly, andduranot contradiF or gm aboutto croire it,fay ing, Ibis thing is procee'- do! V
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