a$t CHRISTS fílarm preached unto other Gentiles he confeftes, looke what good fucceffe he had, he had from Jelus Claritt. J will not dare to 1peake of any of thole things which Chrift bath not wrought by me, co make the Gentiles obedient by Word and deed. Ron.' S.t S. That is, as who should fay, that the Gentiles did heare nie, that they were brought to obedience ha word and deed, that J had fo good fucceffe in my labours ; God forbid I should fay or thinke it was my doing. J dare not fay fo for a world. No, no,It was Christ, atad hee alone that did worke by me as his poore Inf'ruwent. J have all my good fucceffe from him. The fucceffe is meetly as he will. if he will be pleafed to give Co goodfuccethe, Peter (hall convert ;loo at one Sernïon. But if he be pleated to deny a good fucceffe, the Prophet Efay (hell preach in the reign of 4 Kings, about fourefcore yeares and convert hardly one, as he Cayes to Ifrael, as the Apoftle quotes him. All the day long. I have ftretched forth my hands unto a difobedient and a gain-faying people, Rom.ro.zr. All fiicceffes are of God, and therefore much more fùcceffe here. Let it be in any calling. As for Example, Fifhing ; that when a man goes a fishing, hee finds good fùe- ce(f , this is of God. Simon and his company tooled all night and took nothing.But when Chrift came and gave them good fucceffe, then they inclofed a great multitude of fillies :two fhipfullof fishes at one draught, Luk,5.5 So when a man runs, who (hail get the Goale ; the man may runne,but whe- therhe (hall get the Goale, that he cannot tell. When a man fights, the man may fight, and bee the better man of the two, but whether (hall overcome, that is uncertain unto them ; the fucceffe is of God,as Solomon fives. The race it not to the fivift, nor the battaile to the flrony, nor riches to the wife, tim: and chance happens to them all,Ecclef.9.r T. That is,not as though the fwift doe not sometimes get the race and the ftrong the Vidlory, and wife men rich ?s , vea they doe many times namely , when God gives fucceffe, othervite they doe not. How Many times doe men goe about b; itaefffes and in all likelihood , they might hit well yet how often doe they
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