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ness
light
before
them,
and crooked
things straight. Tsai.
xlii.
16.
IIe
sends
provision
by
the mouth of
a
raven,
morning and night,
to
feed
the
prophet;
he
multiplies
and encreases the
cruise
of
oil
into a river, and the barrel
of
meal
doth not
waste
:
he
finds
out
ways
for
unexpected
supplies.
They
that
live
upon providence
shall
know
the
ways
of
the Lord
;
but
they who
will
not
live but
upon
their
own
stores,
have no
taste,
no knowledge
of
these
sort
of
blessings; this loving kindness of the
Lord.
Psal.
cvii.
and the last
verse.
II.
By
consolations and supports, derived
to
us
from
the
word of
God, under our
huge
troubles
and
threaten-
ing
distresses.
Sometimes
a
promise suited to our
case
;
these
are
springs
of
divine
comfort, hidden cordials
for a
fainting
christian
;
though
the men
of
the world
feel
nothing in
them
reviving.
Isaiah
xliii.
2.
I
am
thy God when
thou walkest
through
the
fire
thou
shalt not
be
burnt,
neither
shall.-the
flame
kindle upon thee.
Sometimes
a
precept, a
solemn reproof, silences
all
our
fears.
"
Fear not,"
saith
the Lord,
" I
am with
thee."
Sometimes
the
representations of
the
ancient
dealings
of
God
with his
people,
Psa.
lxxvii.
11, 12.
&c.
I
will
remember the
works
of
the
Lord;
surely I
will
remem-
ber
thy
wonders
of
old,
I
will
meditate
also
of
all
thy
works,
and,
talk
of
thy doings,
Psa.
xxii.
4, 5.
Our
fathers
trusted
in
thee,
and
thou
didst deliver
them
:
they cried unto thee,
and were delivered
:
they
trusted
in
thee,
and
were
not
confounded.
Art not thou
he who
hast delivered Abraham, and
Jacob,
and
Joseph,
and the
Israelites;
who
hast saved
David
from
his
hourly
perils, and
brought
him
to the
'kingdom.
.
.
III.
By
calling to mind the mercies
and deliverances
that
we
ourselves
have received from
the hands
of God
in the
hours
of
distress.
Psa.
lxxi. 5.
Thou
hast been
my
trust
from
my
youth,
I
am
as
a
wonder unto
many;
but thou
art
niy
refuge. Ver.
20.
Thou
which
hast
shewn me
great
and sore troubles,
shalt quicken
me
again,
and bring me up
from the depths
of
the earth.
2
Cor.
i
9.
10..
Who delivered
us
from
so
great a
death, and
doth deliver
us
in
whom
we
trust
that
he
will
yet de-