Verf.a. ,A'n Expofitionofthe 87. Pfalme. a11: how fallhenot with him alfa freelygive u3. all things? Rom. 8.32. We know that love is kinde, or bountiful!, 1 Cor. 13.4. and hence we count Kings favourites happy, asbeing near anddear to thofe, that are fo able to en- rich and honour them in the world : as Efher 6. 6, eJ.c. How happy then are they that are favourites to the King ofKings, the eternal! omnipotent Lord ofall ? See Tfal. 146. 3, &c. Put not your truft in `Princes, &c. Happy is he, that bath theGodofJacob for his help : whore hope is in the Lordhis God, &c.. Happy it the people , that is in fuch cafe : yea, happy is thepeople, Whofe God in theLord, Pfal. 144. i5. For Who is like unto the Lordour God : who dwel lethon high, &c. Pfal. 113. 15. Secondly, it fhewes one reafon of the manifold and great troubles and afflictions of Gods Church and chit- The z. of dren here on earth, when the wicked world is at eafefori'ífru_ and refl. Zechar. T. 1 1, ¡ 2. A cafe that troubled the Pro- "ion. phetsof God, as for me , my feet were almoli gone : my Reps had well nigh flipt. For I was envious at the foolifh , when I faw the profperitieof the wicked. Pfal. 73. 2, 3. Righteous art thou , O Lord , when I pleade with thee : yet let me talk with thee of thy judgements : wherefore doth the way of thewicked profper ? where- foreare l they happy that deal very treacheroufly. Thou haft planted them, yea they have taken root : they grow, yea they bring forth fruit : thou art near in their mouth, and farre from their reines, ?erem. 12. I, 2. And fo may eafilymake weak (iariftians to ffagger : as fudges 6. 13. 1fthe Lord be with us, why then is all this befaln us ? It is true, that the finnes of Gods Church and children lay the foundationof thofe evils : for affhic`Iion followesfinners : as 7er.9.12,&c. Who is thewifeman,that may underftand this, and who is he towhom the mouth of the Lord. hath fpoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perifheth, and is burnt up like a wilderneffe , that none paffeth through ? And the Lord faid , Becaufe they haveforfaken my law, Which Ifit before them, and havenot .obeyed, my Mm 3 vóyce, 91
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