A Commentary upan the. Ga el Chap.4. again in fuch a place. And be fare tohave places of Scripture rea- dy at land (as Saulhad his fpcar and pitcher ready at his head, even whilehe fiept ) that ye may refill the devil,f?edfafl in the faith, grounded on the Word. ?ofeph overcame him by retnena ring the feventh Com;nandment : AndDavid, by hiding this Word Mativs 4 e in his heart, Pfal. 1 19.1 I, Wicked therefore was that ad,, ice of D. Trifler, to his Agents, tolabour Hilltaget hererieerout of their Weakandfalfe Caineofholy Scripture,, into theplainflelsit of Coast- eels andFathers. TheScriptures are our armoury (farre beyond cult +.4. that ofSelamon) whether we muff relort and furnhh out (lires. One favour)/ fentence thereofshall doe us more fcrvice, then all the pretty, witty fayings and fentences of Fathers and Ph ilof.;- phers, or conffitutions ofC.ouncels. Man liveth not by dreadalone] Though ordinarily, as having a nourilfbing property inherent to it, for fuch a purpofe : yet fo, as that the operation and fucceffc is guided by Gode power and Es1r.4 t6. goodnelfe; whereon (as op a ffaff) this ftaffof life leaneth. 11 Wife Woman build, her houfe, Prov. i 4. 1. As the Carpenter laies the plot ofthe houfe in his head fiat, and contrives it : fo doth the fore-caff , and further the well-doing of her famly t and yet, except the Lord allo build the houfe, they labour in vain that build it, Pfälm. 127. 1. So, the diligent hand, and the bleffing of God ( meeting) make rich, Prov. 10.4. and sz. But by every Word&c.] That is, by any thing elfe betides bread, whatfoever God 1hall think good, whatfocver he (hall appoint and give power unto, to be nourithmert. Theref,re if bread Parcae file. fail, feedon faith, Pfa1. ;7.3. Só 3unitu reads that text. yehofâ. a Chron.ae.6. ghat found it foveraign, when all other help failed him.' And the captive Jews livedbyfaith, when theyhad littleelf to live upon, and made a good living of it, Ha641.4. To this Text the Jews teem to allude in that fictionof theirs, that Habakkuk was carried Hiflory of Bell by the hair ofrhe head, by an Angel into 73alylon, toc;rtya din - and tie Dra- net to Danielin the den. It was by faith that helopped the mouths gon, Jer.33. ofLions, andobtainedprosnifes, Heb I 1.33. And by faith that (tae E+a. Toung. anfwered the pci fcutours, ifyouMkt' away my meat, I rruf! God Ac7. and Mon. Will take, a sm q G made the ravens feed Elias that F King.to.8. wn) 11' umacK ;.d F:ench-çhro. weremore likely (in that famine) to have fed upon his dead aide. carcafe : and, another time caufed him togo fourty daies in the firength ofone meal. Merlyn was nourifhed a fortnight toge- ther
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