344 necíougi /MM. fatisfie his Soul,as finelling of the cask and cha, net of Creature- vanity, but in the fullefl afflu- ence of them he crys out, Dulcius ex ipfo fonte; a jingle God infinitely fweeter than all ; and none but he can fill up the gaping chinks and chafmes of my Heart ; Deus meus é omnia, My God, and my all: Then undoubtedly he hath outward bletltngs not,upon the common title of Providence only,but in a way of Pro- mite ; and by reflection on fuch things as thefe he may know that he bath them fo, and ar- rive at a fweet experience of Temporal Pro - irnifes.Such an experience multipliés theLoaves and wonderfully doubles and trebles the fweetnefs and comfort of every Bleí ,n, . Some learned ArMcn have obferved a difference be- tween 7acobs Bleßïng and Efau,r ; Jacobs runs thus, God give thee of the dew of Heaven, and the fatnefs of the Earth, Gen. .24.' 8. Efaus thus, Thy dwelling shall be the fatnef of the Earth, and of 'die dew of Heaven from above, ver. 3.p. In Jacobs the name of God is menti- oned, not in .lçfaur; its true all Bletlìngs are from" God, but his narne is mentioned in the one not in the other. The experienced Belie- ver hath more of God and his federal Love in every Bletitng than other Men.' The Jews by a pious cufom ufed to fay over their ,Bread, .Bleffed be God who brought Bread out of the Earth; over their Wine, Sled be God wbo created the fruit of the Line ; over their Fruits, Blued be God who created the Fruit of the Tree; nay, and over their Flowers, Ble,éd be God
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