411. MK- Chap.4, according to St M n r r HE vv. bx, they with one egg a day, laid by a hen that came conftandy to that hay-mow, where he lay hid, during the maffacre of Paris, And who bath not read or heard, how by a miracle of his mercy, God relieved Rechel in a (trait liege, by an innumerable company of fiches call in upon them ? Faith fears no famine : and although it bebut (mall in fubttanceand in thew (as the Manna was ) yet is it great in vertue andoperation. The Rabbins fay, that Man- na had all manner ofgood taftes in it : So bath faith. It drinks to a man in a cup of Nepenthes, and bids him be of good chear, God will provide for him. The Bilhop cf Norwich kept Robert Samuel, Martyr, without meat anddrink ; whereby he was un- mercifully vext, faxing that he had every day allowed him twoor three mvrfeels of bread, and three fpoonfuls of water, to the end Fe might be referved to further torment. How oft would he have drunk his own water? But his body was fo dried up with long emptineffe, that he was not able to make onedrop of water. Afterhe had been famifhed with hunger t wo or three daies toge- ther, he Ell into a fleep, as it were one half in a fl im'ber. At which time one cloathed in white, feetned to Eland before him, which minitrred comfort un?o him by three words, Samuel, Samuel, beof?oodchear, and tali a good heart unto thee : fir after this day, thou Ihalt never be either hungry or thirty : For fpeedily after this he was burned : and from that time, till he fhould fuf- fer, he felt neither hunger nor thirít. And this declared he, to the end, as he faid, that all men might behold the wonderfull work ofGod. He likes not to be tied to the fccondordinary cau- fes, nor that (in defect ofthe means) w e fhould doubt of his providence. It's trac, he commonly worketh by them, when he could doe without: thatwe may not neglea the means, as being ordainedofhim. ( David(hall have vieitory, but by an arr- bulb, 2 Sam.5.19--24. Men (hall be nourifhed, but by their la- bour, P(al. t 2 8.z,) But yet fo, as that he Both all in all by thofe means (he made graffe, corn and trces,before hemade the Sunne, Moon and (tarres, by the influencewhereof they are and grow.) Yea toPhew himfelfchief, he can anddoth work (other whiles) without means, z Chron.14,i i. andagainft means, tufpending thepower and operation ofthe naturali caufes ; as when the fire burnt not, the waterdrowned not, the Suane went back ten de- grees, the rock gave water, the iron foram, &c. And then when he works by means, he can make them produce an effca diverfe from c a tea2 permu iera faatt autbor quæ preciosa Tr ider; a non won; ortwdat, ,4610 and Mon. [olt547.
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