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GODS
RECOVERING
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among the accidents
of
this
life
how,
many
hundreds
come to
their end
by
such
accidents
P
Besides the
wear-
ing out of
this
mortal nature,
by
labours of the
mind
or
body,
or growing years
and advancing
age.
What
muh
titudes have gone down
to
the dust
since
we
have been
born,
and'yet
we
continue upon the earth,
who
have no-
thing
in 'us
that
can promise, or
that
can
secure length
of
life
to
us_
beyond those
who
are
dead. We are
thus
surrounded
with
deaths
within and without, and
yet
we
live,
I.
By
:constant
supplies
of
food and
raiment, and the
necessaries
of
life,
which
we
have
out of
the stores
of
divine bounty.
It
is
God
that
feeds
and
clothes
us
in
this wilderness,
and
gives
us
our
daily
bread,
though
not
in so
wonderful and
visible
a manner
as
he did
to
the
Israelites.
It
is
he
blesseth our
daily food to
make
it
nourishing to
our natures, and
effectual
to
preserve
life.
Deut.
viii.
3.
"
Man
doth
not
live by
bread
only,
but
"
by
every
word
that
proceedeth
out of
the mouth
of
the
"
Lord." We are
sometimes
filled
with
anxieties
;
&c.
but
God
hath
hitherto
provided,
and
we
live,
He
feeds
the
lamp
of
life
with
fresh
oil,
which would otherwise
expire
in
darkness,
II,
By his
kind
providence preserving
us from
outward
dangers,
Psal.
cxxi.
2,
3,
4.
He carried
the Israelites
through the
wilderness
;
their
feet
swelled not,
nor did
the heat
consume
them, or serpents or plagues
utterly
destroy them,
.Psal.
xxxiv.
20.
He
keepeth
all
our
bones,
not one
of
them
is
broken. He
sends
his
angels
for our
guard,
and
gives
them charge over
us to
keep
us
in all
our
ways.
Psal.
xci.
11,
12.
To bear
ús
up in
their
hands,
lest
we
dash
our
feet against the stones,
Psal.
lxviii.
20.
He that
is
our
God,
is
the
God of sal-
vation
;
often
we
have been
on
the
very edge
of
the
grave,
and behold
we
live;
to the .Lord
our God
belong all
our
escapes from
death.
III.
By
merciful recoveries
from sickness,
by
healing
our
diseases which were ready
to
destroy
us.
Psal.
ciii.
3,
4.
Who
forgiveth all
thine iniquities,
who
healeth
all
thy diseases,
who
redeemeth
thy life
from
destruction,
who
crowneth thee
with
loving kindness and
tender
mer-
cies.
Psal
xxx.
2,
3,
0
Lord,
I
cried unto
thee,
and
thou
hast healed
me.
O Lord, thou
hast brought
my
soul
from the
gave,
thou
hast kept
we
alive,
that
I
should
not