Care ofhip church. I 239 San&nary, notfor meat onely, but for medicine too. VE R S E 2. Fourthly, as hee healeth our difeafes, and givethus iirength, fo in the raids of enemies and dangers he re- movet}, our feares, and givrth us comfort and refrefb- Merit h Iwill make with them, faith he, a Covenant of h Ezek.34 peace, and I will canle avidbeads to ceafeout oftheLand, and they fh-ill dye/II-ale/yin the wilderneffe, andfleepe in the woods. a When the Affyrian fball be in our Land, i Mica 5 and fball tread in our Palaces, then (ball bee raife (e- ven fhepherds, andeightprinciped men, namely, theMI- Milers of his Gofpell, in abundance, to diablifb the hearts of his people againti all dangers. This is that Shilowho fhould bring tranquilitteand peace into the 4, scatet exer- Church, even when the Scepter shoulddepart from Ire- sit. Evans.i.t. da. When the heart is full ofdoubts and ditireffcs, dif- cap.4 quieted with the feare ofGods difpleafure, accufed by the Law, purfued by the adverfary, and condemned by it felfe; then doth he Rill the ragingof the fea, and command theevill fpirit to be durnbe ; then k doth he k Aeve, wipe away teares from the confcience, and refrefb it 74.7. with living waters, even with the fweet communion of his Spirit, andwith the abundanceof hisgraces. Lafily, hee keepeth a continua watch over us by his fpirituall prefence and proteetion : As 1 Jacob teftified kien.31.40. hisgreat care far thegood of Labatt, that the drought confamed himby day,and thefroft bynight,and thatfleepe Pfal, r 214. departedfromhis eyes : fo doth the Lord commend his care towards the Church, in that he is the keeper or the Exod.3314 watch-man ofIfrael, which doth neither flumber nor fleepe. Hisprefence is with his people to guide them in their pilgrimage, and unto which they have daily re- courfe for comfort and eflablifbinent. In that great tem- peft when Chrift was afleepe in the (hip, his Difciples 'awakedhim and expotlulated with him, card" Marke 438,40. thou not that weperil ? But when bee had rebuked the wind and the fea, hee then rebuked them likewife, hee had
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