Gods compaflion)tohupeople in.a/~iElirnz. l ~5__ : ft.orme why JiJyouftare, oh, you oflittle faith; (faith - Chri{ho·his Difciples, wh~n they were fo exceed- . ingly troubled )as ifhe had faid; It is not the great- .nelfe of this ,fiorme that breeds this fearc, but the .littlenelfe ofyour faith. So when all the people ·murmured at the red Sea, what was the reafon that Mofts was quiet all that while when they murmu– red tt StAy (faith he) awhile:. and11NjhaUfoe thefol'fJ4· ·tion if GBd: the reafon of the difference was, Mofls believed, they did nor. So as the trouble-comes not from the greatndfe oftheaffli~ion,butthelittleneifeofyour faith:when therefore affli~ion~ lhallcome,bee nor, be_e not dif: couraged _, loofe not your felves ' but poffeff'e your felyes withpatience: keepe this a5"a fu reconclufion againfi all objections, that God wil! bee merdfull to his people. _ . _ - Is the Lord then fo full of pitie and bowells to rfi,: : his owne people '? Learn thou tocome tot he Lord, - when you have G>ffended him : If indeed God had fo hard an heart as would never relent, then when you had finned, you might goe fome.whither cl(e for .comfort; but now come againe unto the Lord, as being alfured of good fuccdfe : thisufewee fee made ofir by Samuel in the likecafe to the people of lfrAel. I, SAm. I l. When ~he people had commit. ... ted that great linne , wherein as he told them, they had not onely call: away him, but the Lord; and God bad declared his wrath agai 0 fi: them in fiorms 1 ~omheaven, in the time of the latrer harvell: yet ! <~ tth~ lo,. verft fayth S~tmuel; Ftare n()t,yeh~tvedont l ' 11/J thts wrckedntjfo,,et turne not Ajide{rfJmfoHowing the! D l Lord l- -z7?~t= ?G\iiiii:'' - •,
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