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The shepheards farewell to his beloved flocke of S.B.E.L. where he hath been above twenty yeeres their weake, yet vigilant pastour, / I.G. D.D.
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Grant, John, d. 1653.
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according to his prescriptions Among all Davids Psalmes be that familiar unto you by frequent meditation Psal. 107. A mappe it is of Gods being at hand to all his punctually and stirres up all in all occurrences to take notice of Gods Handy-work and to praise him ever for his goodnesse and for his wonderfull works to the children of men ver. 8. 15. 21. 31. of that precious Psalme In the temporall blessings of our God are his spirituall blessings therein chanted forth most harmoniously At hand our God is to the wanderers in desart places at hand God is to the shut up in desmal prisons feitered and tormented there at hand God is to the cast upon their sick beds and with various diseases tossed there and grievously turmoyled A four-fold exemplification of Gods presence in mens troubles and of his rescuing them graciously thereout is in that Psalme distinctly specified The two former examples are of the calamitous in a vagring condition in a tossing on the Land and on the Sea represented so as if we even saw them tempest-beaten The two latter examples are in a condition not vagring indeed but fixed yet so fixed as tranf-fixed as put to pains above humane supportment Externall violence in prison-extremities internall grievance in varieties of diseases try the mettals of Gods endeared ones There is the patience of the Saints put to it Therein the â—ryall and the proof of them to be true and sound cleerâ—y evidenced Gods temporall deliverances in these kinds are remarkable but our spirituall deliverances exceed all the temporall by farre The Churches deliverances by her Saviour the Lord Jesus should often be revolved in our thoughts and all the yeer yea all our yeers on Earth should be a Christmasse in this regard a festivall continuated and celebrated rejoycingly As Christ before he was exhibited to the World in the flesh was once promised and often re-promised and our Forefathers in the faith thereby sustained in their longings for him and expectations of him so after his manifestation in our nature and finishing the work of our Redemption therein First he gave direction for the Faith Christian by the Apostles and their close Successors and afterwards when Heresies and Scismes had tainted the same he againe reformed it and continueth that blessed Reformation I have here before me a world of matter but I must take up and speed me to the next Bough largely dispread and into many branches distinguished Be carefull for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made knowne to God Be carefull for nothing A double carefulnesse we read of a carefulnesse forbidden and an enjoyned carefulnesse This latter is a taking thought both in what and how we may approve our selves unto and in our persons and whole deportment on earth please our good and gracious Father which is in Heaven wherein his Sonne our redeeming Lord he hath prepared the Mansions of eternity for us after our pilgrimage in this vale of misery By doing the will of our Father as in his Word he hath revealed the same to us is this care taken and by us conscionably performed This is to us recommended in the Corinthians Å¿ The sorrowing after a godly sort what carefulnesse hath it wrought in you This carefulnesse is a studiousnesse to avoyd the track of sinne and sinners and a closenesse of adherence unto God in a way of holinesse that leadeth to happinesse When we take due thought for the welfare of our owne soules and for the drawing of others with us on to God this way are we carefull and God accepteth of us in Christ and highly approveth us Yea a moderate carefulnesse for the things of this life without distrustfulnesse in God is both good and commendable but when our Apostle chargeth us to take care for nothing it is Anxiousnesse he points at and disswades from This is interpreted by that of our provident Lord Care not for to morrow t our faith on Gods Providence must cast diffidence out of us Saint Peter thus expresseth it cast all your care upon God for he careth for you u Where the word All is emphaticall and very expressive It is not sufficient for a right Christian to cast this care or that care or the other on God Nothing must excrutiate us who have God for a Provider It may fall out that the very lightest cares may so presse us downe that we may become unfit to undergoe the very lest burden of our calings as not the greatest can be too heavy for us when the whole load of our cares are on God the perpetuall care and provider for us And in the word Cast likewise an intimation is there worthy our closest observation It signifies that we should rouse up what perplexeth us and roule it all on God Be we rid of Anxieties as for us over-masterfull but no burden is over-heavy for his Shoulders And how shall we cast all our cares on God by letting our requests be made knowne to God God is ready to free us of our cares and to take the charge both of our persons and of what concerns us for good but he will be requested of us and then shall we be under his wings for shelter and for safety It is not to informe God that we put up requests to God no he knowes our thoughts afarre off he knoweth them ere they arise in us knowes them ere we can mold them up into requests and so put them up unto the Throne of Grace It is not simply for the manifesting of them to God but to obtaine Gods approbation of them and of us for them Christ will disclaime the knowledge of Hypocrits at the last day I never knew you and yet who are more in prayer then they but their prayers are but Ayrebeatings as sounding brasse or tinkling Cymbals all their devotions Requests made knowne to God are such as God by effects makes it knowne that he hath with approbation admitted them When we thrive to Heaven-wards and are provided for on earth to contentment it appeares that we have not been at our prayers in vaine To all that call upon him God is neere but such must they be as in truth call upon him x Otherwise he knowes them not with approbation with acceptation heares them not When we are true of heart Gods Ears are full open to our requests and never have we in them repulses from him Aske and it shall be given you seeke and yee shall find knock and unto you shall it be opened for every one that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh it shall be opened y When our requests unto God are faithfull earnest and constant God takes notice of them and we from God have seasonable answers Requests put up to men are often frivolous Either to grant them is not in their power or not in their will but neither are in God wanting and nothing