. 2 APPENDIX. 431 diſpleafure; ſo, if we be careful to pleaſe him, and approve our- ſelves in his fight, can make the whole creation around us to be as it were in a covenant of peace and friendſhip with us. Or, if a good man be involved in the ſame outward calami with others, as muſt often, without a miracle, be expect calamities which ditdlas to large communities, ſtill he this to ſupport him, that the at Lord of the univerſe is his father and his friend, and will cauſe thoſe outward'evils to tu—n. in the f Lan. lülne to his greateſt benefit. Death itſelf, if this ſhall be ſhall prove a real gain to him, and ſhall introduce him to a orld, and a nobler ſociety, It is juſtly obſerved concerning the man zhat Jeuyer Eh rhe Lord, zhat deligbteth greasly in his eommans mner nIg, 5 4 nor be afraid f vil tiding 9. Plal. cxi. 1. 77. with the Pſalmiſt, 2 what can man do unto me: an haſt pould encamßp againſ war ſpould riſe again Xxvii. 2. But he m dre triumph, God is our zefuge

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my heart ſball not fæar, though this will I be comficlen:, Pſal. forth into that noble ſtrain of and hirength, a very Preſent help in trouble. Therefore will not ae fear, though the earth be re- nioved, and though the mou be carried into the midt of ie fea: Though ihe waterr theregf rour and be ahe 724 Ehough the mountains ſpake with the ſwelling theregf, Pſal. xlvi. 1, 2, 3. On the Dnler) hand, the wicked and ungodly man, oehnee nuehe aalh no proper re ſource, no1 day 24 85 amity, when him. For either he lo 1 L wild chance, or blind? ecelity,„ object of rational truſt and confid and which leaves no room for! hope- but in that which nature hath an abhor of, an utter extinétion of bei 1 be the juſt judgments of the the world, whom he hath offér is to brave it againſt the wrath of

lid comfort or ſupport in a ings ſeem black and diſmal al

cannot poſſibly

1 tures like ourſelves, t cauſe, me fortitude: but not to fear God, the Almighty Lord of the Uni- verſe, is not courage, but madneſs. The only proper thing

which remaineth for ſuch perſons to do, and it is what reaſon, as well as Scripture, directeth to, is to humble t bemſelxe deeply under the mig f God, and to flec to his in- finite mercy, through. rty Lerheraa

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