5¢ e.94ajlergreenham.r Içaelins uill caufe,in twobattels ouercamethe lfraelites,vntillat length they humbled thin/ifdues with ptayer.and faiting,and repentedofthat eulll which wasamongstthem: fo that in the Note. third affault,the Lord gauehispeople itrength to fell:Hie to preuaile their enemies. ,, So wee may haue a good taufe, and vie good meanes,and yet for waneof reconciling our ,, fèlues to God for Tome finnewor old wee may Puffer the ouerthrow. If then our caufe be good,we mutt vfe goodmeanes,faith inChrift,cruit inhis prouidcnce,& flayingour (clues en Isiswikdome.Doe wenot fee by experience, how the'Martyrs of God humbling chem..- felues on thismanner prenaded in nightiepower againft their accufers? Dent. s. Malfes fhewetli,that theenemies of Godweredriten toconfele, that onely Gods people were wife,etienbecaufe God game them good tasses . This was it that made Iofephwilèrthen his brethren, Moyfès wifcrthen the .Egyptians,and Danielthen allthe Magicians ofBabylon, and Dauid- then a li hispolitiqueenemies. Macke I pray youall figuratiue, hyperbolicall and darke fpeeches, theMetaphors and Parables,which are in the word of God,&you (hallfind,that theywere learned people to whom thebookes werewritten, andhadattained that meafure of wifedome and know - lcdge,whicb inour time nonecanvnderitand,but theywhich arcbrought vp in learning: which riving wee may a!foobferne in them, of whome the Hi(tories of the booke of God are written,and yet who were more blockifh then the Iewes, after theyhad trafgreffed io obllinatelythe law oftheLord. But /hall wee vnderiland this, as though the children of Godwere in euerie particular abfion tuifer then the wickedones? No,but onely in thole things and then , wherein and when they ofed this wifedome ofthe l}vric,and gave chemfeluesand their caufes to bego- uerned,accordmgto Gods word. Lookc on Dauid,who thoughhewas wife,fo long as lice kepta good confcience, yetharkening to policie, and not willing to flay himfelfe on the fi mplicitie of Gods word,how fodainelywas heouercome , and yeelded fo farte, that he diilèmbled euento ñghcagainftGodsenemies. Whiles heewas in his fetchingpolicies, did not the Lordefend enemiesthe inftruments of deftruation to his wifeand children ?. Whileft hewould reft on God the was wsfe,but when he would numberhis people, he was. confounded. What did his policie inadulteriepreuaile,todifuifeinlacislortVriab, to make himdrunken,to let him in theforefrontofthe battaile,was henor muchfoyled? Sa -. lomon,wbowhilelt lheyvalked before the Lord, waswiler then lusFather Dauid, when hen gaue himfelfeto many wiues, and began to be fecure, and co runne intogrolle Idolatrie, jebofophat pre- was greadie difpleafng in the fight of die Lord. lehofaphatlò long as heobeyed theLord,, nfhedrnhis was feared, bur when in policie lie ioyned bimfelfe affinicie to a wicked King,hee was al- pafieritie. molt confounded,aid finely hadbin punifihed,had henot in repentance turned ,&Numb -. ledhimfelfëbefore the Lord , whofe policie alloin ioyninghis hips withthe Ihips of Aba- zials, wasafterward punifhed in his pofteritie. . Verle 99. I haue had more vnderflanding then my teachers, for thy teffrmonies are my meditation. TN the fecond particular el%c4,theProphet faith, bedidexcellhis teachers, which he doch not to brággeorboaitofhinnelfe,but commendingthe freegraces of God, liceftirreeh vp himfekfe tomake other men not onely to content thendelues,with a care ofhearing the word,butallo tomake confcienceof meditation. This then is leftof die fpirtt of God for 'our comfort,in that we may finde the likefruite, clingby prayer the like meanesifothat if we bring notforth anhundred] fold,yee threefcore,or at theleali tbirtie folld,accordingco Godswifedome. True it is,thatthe fcholler often beconuncth better learned then the teacher, which is a íingular blellrng ofGod,that the learned. man Mould afcribe nothingto hitnfelft, and to glueGod the glorie, he enlightneth where he chinked: mcete, and encreafeth when ice Teeth it good. Nowwe may leethis by experience euen inHeathen men.AraSlotlewas wt.. firthenhis Matter Place,inwhom this blaringof God appeared,in that they ioyned fìudv andmeditation withtheirlearning. In Lawand P1»ficke they arcmoft frequented, who with
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