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Opened.
C
A
PAI.
4:
U.
intereft
in all
the things,whereby their ftate and Glory
is
fafegarded.
My way
35
(
fay
they
)
is
hid
from
the
Lord:
The
Lord
takes no more notice,
fets
his
heart no more upon
my
way,
my
walking,
but
lets me goe
and pafle on
as
a
ftranger
to
him:
And
farther,
My
judgement
is
paled
over
from
my
God:
Mine
enemies prevaile, perhaps Lufts,and
Corruptions are firong, and God
doth
not
appeare
in
my behalfe: judgment
is
not executed
on
them, and
what
will
be
the iffueofthis
my fad
eftate? What
the Lord .propofeth and
holdeth
out
unto them for their Eftablifhment
in
this
condition, and
to
affure
their
that
what they
feared fhould
not
come upon
them
,
he utliers
in
by an
effe
&uall
expoftulation,
v.
27.
Haft
thou
not
heard? Haft
not
thou
been
taught
it
by
the
Saints
that
went
before
thee?
Hail
thou
not
knowne?
Haft
thou
not
found
it
true
by
experience ?
What
it
is
he would have them
take
notice of,
and which he fo Pathetically infinuates
into their underftandings
and
affe&i
-
ors,
for
their
eftablifhment,
is
an Exurgency
ofthat
Defcription
of
him-
felfe,
which he
gives
v.28.
(z.)
From
his
Eternity,
he
is
the
Everlafting
God:
(a.
)
From
his
Power,
he
is
the
Creator
o
f
the
ends
of
the
Earth:
(3.)
From
vnchangeableneffe,
hefainteth
not ,
he
waxeth not
weary,
and therfore there
is
no reafon, hefhould relinquifh
or
give
over
any defigne
that
he
hath under-
taken;
efpecially confidering
that
he
layes all
his
purpofes in
that,
whereby
he defcribes himfelfe
in
the
Taft
place, even
hisWifdonie, thereis
no
end
ofhis
2lnderlanding. He efiablifheth(I
fay) their Faith
upon
this fourefold defcrip-
tion
of
himfelfe,
or
Revelation
of
thefe foure Attributes
of
his Nature,as
in-
gaged foì
the
effefing ofthat,which
he incourageth
thé
to
expe&.Who
is
it 8
:acob,with whom
thou
haft
to doe,that
thou
fhouldefi
feare
or
complain
that
thou art
reje&ed ?He isEternall
,Ahnighty,Vnchangeable, InfinitelyWife,
&
if
he
be
ingaged
in any way
of
doing
thee
good;
who can
turne
him afide,that
he
fhould
not
accomplith all
his
pleafure
towards thee
?
He
will
work;
who
fhall
let -him?
It
muff
be either want
of
Wifdome ,
and
fote
fight
to
lay
a
defigne,
or want
of
Power
to
execute it, that expofeth
any one
to
variable_
nefle
in
any
undertaking.. Therefore that
they
may
fee
how
Unlikely,
how
impoffìble
a
thing
it
is,
that their
wayes
fhould
be
hid
from
the
Lord,
and their
judgment
patted over
from their
God,
he accquaints
them,
who and what
he
is,
who bath
undertaken
to the
contrary;
but
al.affe
!
They
are poore faint
Creatures, they have
no
might,
no
.rength to
walke with
God
;VniIable
as
water,
they
cannot excell:
It
is
impoffible
they
fhould
hold out
in
the
way
wherein they are ingaged,
unto
the
end.
To
obviate or remove
fuch fears,
and
mifgivingthoughts,he
lets them
know,v.2p.
That
though they have,
or
may
have many
decayes
(for they
often
faint
they often faite, wherof we
have
Examples
and
Complaints in
the
scripture, made lively
by our owne
experience)
yet from him they
(hall
have fupplyes,to preferve them from
that
which
they feare: He
is
Eternal], Almighty
,
Unchangeable and
infinitely
Wife,he
will give
out
Power,&
increafe strength, when they Faint &
(in them-
felves
)
have no might at
all;
The
Lord
Both
not propofe
himfelfe
under
all
thefe confiderations,
to
let them know what he
is
in himfelfe,
only,
but
alto
that
he
will
expert' and
a&
futably
to
thefe Properties,
in
dealing with
them,
and making
out
fupplyes
unto
them
,
notwithftanding
all
their
mifgiving
thoughts,
which arife from
the
confideration
of
their
owne_
faintings
and
to-
tall
want
of
might;
Though
in themfelves
they
are weake and faint, vet
their
fprings
are
in
him, and their
fupplyes
from him, who
is
fuch
as
he
hath
here
defcribed himfelfe
to
be.
Hereupon
ahfo
he anticipates an -Obje
&ion,
by
way
of
Conceffìon, v.
3o.
Even theyouth
fhall
faint
and
be
weary,
and the
young
men
jball
utterly
faile.
Men
that
feeme
to
have
a
great
flock offftrength
and
Ability,
May
yet
faile and perifh
utterly:
An
objeéiion which,
as
I
formerly
F
3
obferved,