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Gods
patience
and love,
to
be
noted.
Manna,a
type
of
Chr,/1.
giving both
the
typicall
and the true
manna
from hea-
ven.
Then hee
pleafed
to give
the
manna
to
Ifrael,
I.
When
Ifrael
had
great
need of
Gods
helpe, and
had
no
power to
helpe
themfelves, when
they
were
even
ready to
flarve
:
Even
fo
when the Church
was in
ex-
treme need
of
Chrif
},and
altogether
helpleffe
in herfelf,
it
pleafed
God
to
give
his
Sonne
from
heaven
to
fave
and
refre(h
her.
Which the
Apoflle
notes,
Rom
5-.6.
For
Chrit
when
we were
yet
of
no
fizrengtb,
art
hu
time
died
for
the
ungodly.
z.
Then
God
gave
Ifrael manna,
when
Ifrael
(
murmuring
)
had
deferved
nothing but
wrath
and
vengeance
;
when
they could
looke
for
no-
thing
but
fire
from
heaven,
hee
gives
them
food from
heaven, and
fuch
food
as
was
Angels food,
fweet
as
honey Oh
what
a
tender
NurCe
is
the Lord
become
to
a
froward
people
?
hee will flill the frowardneffè
of
his
firft borne
rather
with
the
breaft
then
with
the
rod
:
Even
fo
when
by
our hatefull
finnes
of' many
forts
wee
could
neither deferve nor
expea
any
thing but revenge
from
heaven,
God
fent
his
Sonne
from
heaven,
the true
manna and
bread
of
life,
who
hach
more
fweetne.ffe in
him
then
the honey combe
;
which
one
gift fweetneth
all
bleffings,
which
elfe
had
beene fo
many
curies.
For
what
had
the
Ifraelites deliverance,
viaory,
lives been
worth
in
the wilderneffe
without
food and
manna,
which
kept
them
in
life
and
firength
?
Even
fo
had
all
our
outward
ble
fl
ings
been
to
us
(
without
jefus
Chrifl)
onely
a
lingring
death
and
mifery. Oh
who
would
deale
thus
with
his
enemy, but bee that bath
au
Ocean
of
mer-
cy
?
Which the
fame Apoflle
(in
the
fame
Chapter
ver.
8
)
leadeth
us
unto
;
where
hee magnifieth and
height
-
nethGods
love
unto
us
;
that,
while
wee
were
yet
'inners,
Chaff
died
for
us,yea
while
we were
yet
enemies(ver.
i
o.)
he
fent
us
this
manna,
by
whom
he reconciled himfelfe
unto
us.
ILet
this confideration
be of ufe
:
x..
To flirre
up
in
us
t.