Chap.6. according to S t 1 r1 A T Tx E VV. 249 vievofothers, orfubtle thoughts and evatîons, to blindefold the confcience, with colour of Chrif}, necefliry care, &c. whence it iscalled,clok dandcolouredcovetuoufreffe, t Thcf,a.5. AChriilian hath ever God for his chiefend, and will not, deli- b :rarely, forgoe him upon any tearms He erres in the way, thinking hemay minde earthly things, and keep God too : fo be- ing infnared with thefe worldly lime-twigs: (like the filly bird) before he is aware, the more he ffruggleth, the more /leis in- tangled and difablcd. All this, and more then this, our Saviour Well knew : and therefore reiterates h's .exhortation, and lets it on with fo many Arguments. Care not fir the morrow, &c. Ina d :tier to ] will be careleffe according to my name, laid that Martyr 2ohn M. Phitpot. Careleffe: for nowmy foul is turned to her old ref( again, and 4t . andMen. bath taken a fweet nap inChria s lap. I have call my care upan fpi.t74i the Lord, who careth forme,&c. And Bilhop Hooper in a let- ter to certain good people. taken praying in Bow -Church yard, and now in trouble, writeth thus. Reads the fecond Chapter-of Luke: there the íhepheards, that watchedupon their (beep all night, aff.on as they heard Chriit was borneat Bethlehem, by and by they went to leek h:m. They did not r.ai n, nor debate with t; themf Ives, who (hould keep the woolf from the Iheep in the mean time: but did as they were commanded, and committed their Cheep to him, whofe pleafu. e they obeyed : fo let us doe, nowwebe called, commit all other things to him that calleth us. He will take heed that all things (hall be well: he will help the husband, comfort the wife, guide the f:rvanrs, keep the honk, preferve the goods : yea, rather then it flaall be undone, he will waih the diíhes, and rock the cradle. Call therefore all yourcare upon God,.e'c. fudæa (as one bath well obferved,) lay utterly welle for 70 years. Infomuch that after the flaughter of penbte, on gediliah, when all, man woman and child:, fled in.o Egypt, Ze:h, >44.. there wrs not a Jew left in the Countrey. Neither finde we any colonyes lent thither, or any difplaced to makeroom at: their returre. A wonderful providence, that fopleafant a Countrey, left deilitatecfinhabitants, and compelled about with fret] war- like Nations, was not invaded, nor replanted for 7o.yearsfp,ce but the Land kept her Sabbaths,relling from tillage, &c. and God kept the roomempty,till the rdturne of the naturalls.Iaremy, im- mediately after he had foretold the captivity, and the Caldeani werenow befieging the City, was bidden to buy a field of his uncles:
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