vocis Christi verbi divini Musc Plus uni cum verbum animos coroborat quam eximium miraculum Musc but one VVord from Christ settles them Are we in troubles of Conscience labouring under the apprehensions of Gods wrath for sin It 's but One Word speaking and thy soul shall be comforted It 's but one word from Christ Thy sins be forgiven thee And Conscience is at peace all troubles are gone Are we in Desertions Doth Christ withdraw himself from us It is but one word from Christ It is I and the soul is again h Tranquillus Deus tranquillat omnia eum quietum aspicere quiescere est Bern. revived As it was with Mary in the losse of his Bodily presence She wept and would not be comforted Nay though Angels did labour to comfort her yet they could not It is not all the Angels of heaven that are able to confort a drooping soul Christ but speakes a word to her Mary And her heart leaps Rabboni My Lord So is it with a soul that hath lost the spirituall presence of Christ It is not all the comforts in heaven and earth can comfort the soul in the absence of Christ what is Gold in the absence of God! What is the creature in the absence of the Creator All the world is but like a Feast without an Appetite a Paradice without a Tree of Life Nothing can fill up Christs room in the soul The Presence of no comfort can make up the absence of Christ yet one word from Christ one smile from heaven And the soul is revived Speak but the word and thy servant shall be whole saith the man in the Gospel So Speak but the word and this dead heart shall be raised this dejected heart shall be comforted this broken heart shall be bound up this sad heart shall be cheered c. Are we in outward troubles and Calamities why it is the Word of Christ that doth stay us that doth cheare us that doth support us that doth comfort us Psal 94.19 In the multitude of my perplexed thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul Certainly the comforts from his Word Yea saith he I had perished in mine affliction but that thy Word did support mee Psal 119.50.92 The Word is full of Counsell full of Comfort full of Support full of Help to a soul in all his Troubles Therefore hath God left us a Word that it might be as a School to instruct us a Star or Sun to guide us a Rock to support us a Cordiall to comfort us a Tower to secure us and Armory to defend us in the evill day The Word is as full of comfort as the times are full of terror the dayes are full of trouble but the Promise is full of comfort And it never speakes more comfort to the Saints then when the times speak most trouble Vse Let this then direct us whither to flie for comfort now in these times of Trouble Even to the Word of Christ Enquire what VVord of comfort Christ speaks now to his Church in this day of Trouble and listen to it live upon it It is our fault that the Noyse of our Troubles and feares doe hinder us from hearing what Christ saith in his VVord to comfort us It is said of the children of Israel Exod 6.9 that when Moses came to speak Deliverance and Comfort to them and told them that God sent him to that purpose to deliver them yet saith the Text The children of Israel hearkened not to Moses for Anguish of Spirit and for cruell Bondage So it is with us Our Feares and our Troubles and Vnbeleevings carnall reasonings cry so loud in our eares that wee cannot hear the Comfort that God doth now speak to us out of his Word Object But you will say Did Christ speak to us as hee did to his Disciples heere then we might be comforted in our troubles Ans Christ doth speak to us as he did to them VVhat did he say to them but he saith to us also now All we read was but this Be of good cheere It is I Be not afraid He did not say He would save them Hee would helpe them nor that hee would preserve their ship cease the storme deliver them out of Trouble and Danger onely hee saith Bee of good cheere It is I I that am your Saviour your Lord your Master I that sent you out All the rest was the work of their Faith Their Faith made out the rest even their Confidence in him Now I say This and more then this doth Christ say to us now in our Trouble How many words of Christ have wee for this Bee of good cheer Joh 14.1 Luk. 12.32 Isay 41.13 Isay 43.5 Let not your hearts be troubled Fear not little flock Fear not thou worme Jacob I. I that am your God your Saviour your Deliverer in times of Trouble your Rock Refuge Shield It is I whose cause you undertake whose glory is concern'd And therefore we may reason out the rest as well as they and where is now our Faith That man is deafe that heares not Christ say thus much now And doth Christ say this where then is our Faith to rest upon him oh that this word might beget faith and this Faith might again strengthen it self in this Word Object But you will say Had wee a perticular Word of Christ that God would now deliver England wee could then finde a Bottom of Comfort though our conditions lay farre lower then they are But wee want that Therefore are we oppressed with feares Ans You have as much Word for the deliverance of the Church now as the Disciples had for the Preservation of the Ship Yet they beleeved the one resting only upon the Nature of a Saviour without a word and why should we doubt of the other though we had no word There may be a Resting upon Gods Name for a mercy Though you have never a Promise for it Isa 50.10 Hee that walketh in darknesse and sees no light no light of any Promise to tell him how things shall be Yet let him trust upon the Name of the LORD and stay himself upon his GOD. There is Trust without Promise He that Rests upon the Name of the Lord that is his Mercy Goodnesse Truth Love Rests upon that which is the spring of all the Promises the ground and foundation whereon the Promise stands and that into which all the Promises are resolved viz. The Name of God Psal 62.8 The Prophet exhorts to trust in God And upon what Ground He alleageth no Particular Promise but tells you of Gods Generall Nature Ver. 11. God hath spoken that Power belongs unto God And Ver. 12. And unto thee belongeth Mercy And thereupon hee trusteth God was Powerfull and able to Deliver And God was Mercifull and ready to help and thereupon he trusted And have not we as much for a Ground of our Faith as This You read Psal 33.18.19 The Eye of the Lord is
the strength insolency and pride of the enemy to wrestle with God c. Therefore doth God heighten our difficulties that he might heighten out duties Reas 3. God doth heighten our difficulties that he might heighten our deliverances So much as comes into a trouble to heighten that so much shall again come into a deliverance to increase that b Aqua â—in quantum descendit in tantum ascendit The water ariseth as high as it doth fall low we say The lower the ebbe the higher is the tyde God will make the rises of his people proportionable to their castings downe The lower the foundation the more high and eminent will be the structure a shallow foundation will serve the turne for an ordinary structure but he that goes about to raise an eminent structure layes his foundation low The same proportion God observes in difficulties before the same will he observe in deliverances afterward The darker the morning the cleerer will be the day the sadder the Week the more joyfull the Sabbath When the Children of Israel came out of Egypt you see how their difficulties were inlarged but if you read the story you shall find what ever came in for an addition to their trouble came in also as an addition to their deliverance The power greatnesse rage and malice of the Adversary in pursuing them unto the Red Sea was a great heightning of their difficulty and you see it was a great inlargement of their deliverance by this meanes they were rid of all their enemies at once If their straits had not bin so great their inlargements had not been so glorious God delights to make the inlargements of his people as visible as their straits have bin The like you have in the story of the five Kings Josh 9.1.2 Josh 10.3 4 5 6 c. whose hearts God hardned sayes the Text to come out against Joshuah it must needs be a great heightning of their difficulty when five potent Kings of Canaan united all their power and forces together against them but you know it was as great a heightning of their deliverance for by that meanes they had all their enemies slaine at once strook off at one blow 〈◊〉 4.11.12 â—â— You may reade the like in Micha 6.12 13. And now many Nations are gathered together against thee O Sion that say Let her be defiled let our eye see her glory but they know not the thoughts of the Lord for he shall gather them together as sheaves unto the floore Arise and thrash oh Daughter of Sion c. Where you see Nations and many Nations and all these gathered together against one Sion Here was a difficulty heightned but you see though their thoughts were the ruine of Sion Gods thoughts were the ruine of themselves And God inlarged the difficulty for the inlargement of their deliverance Reas 4. God doth heighten the difficulty of his psople to heighten his owne glory the glory of his wisdome power mercy faithfulnesse As Christ answered concerning the blinde man in Iohn 9.9 When they asked whether it was for his sins or his parents that he was borne blinde Christ answers For neither but that the workes of God might bee made manifest in him that is that the power mercy glory of God might be made conspicuous in the healing of him And for the same reason doth he raise the difficulties of his Church You reade an excellent passage to this purpose in the Iohn 11.4 c. Lazarus sisters sent to Christ to tell him that their brother was sicke and intreat him to come downe and heale him Christ answers This sicknesse is not unto death but that the glory of God might be revealed and manifested And mark now the way that Christ takes to advance his glory Verse 6. When hee had heard saith the Text that he was sick he abode two dayes still in the same place where he was One would thinke this a strange passage hee should rather have gone presently and have recovered him But this was now the way Christ took to advance his glory he doth not only suffer him to be sick but to dye of his sicknesse nay to be buried and to lye in the grave foure dayes and thus lets the difficulty go beyond the power of man that the power and glory of God might be more visible and manifest as he tels us in the 15. and 40. Verses You have the like also in Luke 8. from the 41. to the 49. Verse Speciall cures wins more glory to the Physitian then many ordinary cures so speciall deliverances brings God more glory c. God is lost in smaller Deliverances when yet he is visible and conspicuous in greater In such men wil be forced to say none but a God could have done these things for us Thus doth God heighten our difficulties to heighten his own glory 5. Reas God doth heighten our difficulties before deliverance that hee might heighten our prayses our thankfulnesse for a deliverance God is very desirous of the prayses of his Saints as he doth bathe himselfe in their teares so he doth delight himselfe in their joyes hee loves to heare their praises as well as their prayers And therefore doth God bring us into straits and heighten our straights that being delivered we might be more inlarged with thankfulnesse Moses difficulty at the Red Sea did furnish him with matter of prayses when hee was come to the shore 15 Exodus Who is a God like to thee glorious in holinesse fearefull in prayses doing wonders 11 verse Nothing doth so much swell a mercy as our necessity of it God is forced to make us the more misertble in pressures that wee might be more thankfull in deliverances These with many other might be nanamed To conclude this Let us not bee cast downe nor discouraged Quando urgentia mala expulsurus sit tum graviora inducat Chris though God doe bring us into straits yea and heighten our difficulties too It is the usuall way which God goes in the deliverance of his people All these are but the buddings and presages of future deliverances Gravissima certamina pericula sunt certissima nuncia liberationis sunt veluti indices vicinae liberationis Let but the heightning of our difficulties heighten our faith our graces our duties and you shall see they shall be all the heightning and inlargement of our deliverance But we will reserve our selves for the further application of this till afterwards c. We will now come to the next verse which is the dawnings of the morning of comfort after a darke and stormy night 25. Ver. 25 Verse And in the fourth Watch of the night Jesus went unto them walking on the Sea In the former verse you had the danger and distresses the Disciples were in In this we have Christs addresses to relieve and help them And this is set downe in foure particulars 1. He takes a veiw of their danger and trouble 2. He
him but as he hath revealed himself in his Word And though you are not able at present to evidence him such a God to you as he hath manifested himself in his Word yet by faith conclude him so when you cannot cleer him so Thus Job did so Job 13. These things hast thou hid in thy heart Job 10.13 yet J know that this is with thee though I cannot see it yet I doe beleeve it though I cannot cleer it yet I doe conclude it And thus the Church 36. Esay 16. Doubtlesse thou art our Father Isa 63.16 She will not be reasoned out of her faith she will hold the conclusion of faith against all the evidence that sense and reason can bring to the contrary This is with Ulysses to bind our selves fast to the mast and not suffer our selves to be charmed away to the destruction and undoing of our own souls And these are the three times that Christ seems to appear as a Ghost to his own people Now there are foure times Christ appears as a Ghost to wicked men 1. When he comes with his Fan in his hand to purge and reform his Church men look upon Reformation as their destruction And think Christ comes to destroy them when he comes to reforme them men may sometimes look upon that as the greatest evill which yet is intended for their greatest good It is the Speech of Augustine upon this place That there shall be such troubles shall arise about the fourth watch a little beiore the end of all things that men shall look upon Religion shall I say because of the troubles that it raises when it comes to be setled in its Power and Glory s Res Christiana phantasma videtur they shall look upon Religion as a Ghost Not because Religion will hurt them but hurt their sins How justly may that be applyed to us now which was spoken of Israel When I would have healed Israel then the iniquity of Israel did appeare So it is with us when the Lord would heale us and reforme us then doth the iniquity of men the malice the pride the hatred of the purity of Ordinances then doe all these â—ppeare What is the ground of all this trouble among us now why are so many up in Arms * Vitia nostra quia amamus defendimus but to keep out Christ in the Power and purity of his Ordinances Reformation is now the Ghost that hath frighted them into Arms men that are afraid they run unto their weapons so they frighted with the Ghost of Reformation get up weapons put themselves in armes to oppose it So long as Reformation is looked upon as an enemy it shall finde enemies enow though indeed it is an enemy to nothing but their sinnes A second time when he appeares as a Ghost to them t Haec in est nobis perversitas ut quae vere mala sunt non timeamus ea quae nocere ne possunt formidemus Musc in loc when he comes to reform their Persons then they cannot away withall they fear holinesse love sin that which should be object of hatred is object of love and that which should be object of love is object of feare they cannot brook holy wayes they will not subject to the Lawes of God they cannot part with their sins take away their sins take away their best friends they have been wicked and will be wicked They thank God they are no Changlings Indeed not to change in a good way is commendable but to be unchangeable in a bad way is damnable To be unchangably evill is to be as Divells are for ever sinfull and for ever miserable First cleer your way to be good and then glory in our unchangeablenesse A third time when Christ appears as a ghost to them and that is when they lie upon the bed of sicknesse the bed of death Oh then Christ is terrible when a man shall lye upon his death bed u Vadeo nescio quo ens entium miserere mei Animula vagula biandula quae nunc Abibis in loca de Adriau dicitur and connot tell what shall become of his soul to all eternity when a man shall say as once a great person did in the same condition I cannot live I dare not dye he knows not what shall become of him to all eternity when he shall behold his friends weeping over him but cannot helpe him his relations and comforts leaving him his riches not able to relieve him his sinnes presented and set in order before him and a displeased and wrathfull God ready to destroy him Oh here God appeares as a Ghost indeed You made bug-beares w There shal come in the last dayes scoffers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Such as shall make childrens play of all the terrors of the Lord 2 Pet. 3 3. childrens play and scoffed at all the terrors of the Lord before but now they appeare reallities to you The precepts of the Law were a ghost to you in your life and the terrors of the Law are now a ghost to you at death the comforts of the Lord were a ghost to you before and just it is the terrors of the Lord should be a ghost to you now 4 A fourth time and that is at the day of judgement when Heaven and Earth and all the world is on fire then shall Christ appeare as a Ghost indeed full of terror to every wicked and ungodly person We reade that the wicked at that day 6 Rev. 16.17 shall call upon the mountaines to fall upon them to hide them from the face of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the Lambe for the day of wrath is come and who shall be able to beare it In their thoughts they were better able to beare the weight of Rocks of Mountains on them then the sight of Christ so terrible will Christ appeare to ungodly men at that great day Vse Oh then knowing the terror of the Lord we perswade you Christians as you would not have Christ to appeare as a Ghost to you terrible at the day of death terrible at the day of judgement let him not appeare as a Ghost to you now * Optima securitas 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let him not appeare terrible to you in his word in his worship in his lawes in his truth If Christ be a terror to you now in these wayes assure your selves he will be a terror to you hereafter Be willing then to receive Christ in his truth in his worship wayes c. Bid him welcome in your houses your hearts if Christ be not a terror to you now if you can brook with strict and exact walking if you can brook the power and purity of his ordinances he will never be a terror to you hereafter This is all I shall say of the second the Disciples thoughts and apprehensions of Christ We come to the third and that is the effects of these
same condition 2. Rule What God promiseth to any of his people he promiseth to all his people in an equall estate What God promiseth to his Church in other ages he promiseth to his Church in all ages in equall estate This is another rule that Divines lay downe And this seemes to have a foundation in the word of God also I will give you two places God you know had made a promise to Solomon at the building of the Temple that if the enemy besieged their Cities if he brought a famine pestilence or sword upon the land if his people did humble themselves and pray and seeke his face he would heare from heaven and forgive their sinnes and heale their land As you see at large 2 Chron. 7.14 1 Kings 8.37 to 40. Here was a promise made to Solomon Now if you look into 2 Chron. 20.8 10. You shall see how Iehosaphat makes use of this promise and sues it out Art not thou our God who hast said If the sword judgement or pestilence come upon thy people and thy people cry unto thee in their affliction then thou wilt heare from heaven and helpe and deliver them Why saith he Behold now the enemies which are come against us judge them Lord our God for we have no might against this great company neither know we what to do but our eyes are up to thee Where you see the rule confirmed that what ever God promiseth to any of his people in any age of the world he promiseth to all his people in all ages in an equall state i. e. in the like condition Vpon this ground Iehoshaphat made use of this promise which was made to Solomon being in the like distresse he goes to sue out the promise and lookes for the performance of it I will give you another place Ioshua 5.6 I will be with thee I will not faile thee nor forsake thee This you know was a particular promise made to Ioshua Yet the Apostle who best knew the minde of the giver he brings this promise into the common stock that seemed to be impropriated and shewes that this is part of the Saints riches Hebr. 13.5 Let your conversation be without covetousnesse for he hath said He will never leave thee nor forsake thee Yea you may say he hath said so to Ioshuah but where to me And indeed this could not be answered unlesse you grant this rule to be true that whatever God hath promised to his Church or any of his people in other ages of the world he hath promised to his Church and all his people to the end of the world provided they be in like state in equall condition whence we say That generall promises may bee particularly applyed and particular generally That is what ever promise you find to one godly man as godly or to his Church as to his Church It is applyable to all God carrying himselfe to all alike all of you being under the same covenant and to deale with the same God who is impartiall in the dispensations of his love and mercy And now then bring downe this Rule and see if it be not something to us He hath promised to save the oppressed people Psal 12.5 He hath promised to deliver his people out of trouble The Scripture is full He promised that no Weapon formed against the Church should prosper a promise to the Church of the Gentiles He said He would make Ierusalem a burthensome stone that who ever lifteth at it shall be crushed to pieces though all the Nations of the earth should be gathered together against it Zach. 12.3 Reade Isay 43. v. 3 4. I will give men for thee And Micah 4.11 12. What shall we say of these places are they usefull to us Or of no use Of no use we cannot say for the Apostle tels us that All Scripture is written for our instruction that we through patience and consolation thereof might have hope And if usefull then they are to incourage us to trust upon the same God that God will be the same to us that he hath beene to others Psal 78.7 The children of Israel were commanded to tell the wonders which God had done to his people in Egypt at the Red-sea in the Wildernesse to their children and they to their children c. And for what reason That they might set their hope in God V. 7. Why what is that to them Why they were to learne to trust in God and hope in God for the like if they were brought to the same straights And certainly God would not have us hope if he had not a purpose to do the like Two things there be that God will never disappoint 1 Prayer 2 Faith First Prayer For so he saith When said I to the seed of Jacob at any time seek my face in vaine Isay 45.19 And therefore when he hath no purpose to give he will not have his people to beg You see he gives Jeremy a discharge Pray not thou for this people neither lift cry or prayer for them for I will not heare thee Jer. 7.16 And Samuel for Saul Pray no more mourne no more for Saul Psal 66. ult Blessed be God that hath not turned away my prayer nor his mercy from m. If God turne not away prayer he will never turn away his mercy from us Secondly Faith or Hope Psal 69.6 They shall not be ashamed that hope in thee which they must if they faile of the thing hoped for Prov. 10.28 The hope of the righteous shall be gladnesse So the Apostle Rom. 5.5 Hope maketh not ashamed So much for the second Rule So that you see we have something comes neere a particular word for our deliverance Give me leave to adde two more instances to these Rules 3 Incouragement We have a particular word for the destruction of Antichrist and I am sure that speakes no terror to us now This doth no way weaken our faith for Englands deliverance at this time He who believes and prayes for the destruction of Antichrist shall not any way hurt or hinder Englands deliverance now Well we have a particular word that Antichrist shall downe 2 Thess 2.8 Rev. 18.2 Babylon the great is fallen is fallen Indeed he is not yet down but he is deadstrook in the threatning and he hath begun to fall he is weakned in the pillars whereupon he stood Germany Spaine which is a great earnest to us his end is comming And now he that rests upon a word for the destruction of Antichrist shall not finde it any hinderance to his faith in the believing the deliverance of England 4 Incouragement We have a particular word that God will before the end of all things make his Churches glorious Isay 5.4 throughout read 11 12 13 14. Oh thou afflicted and tossed with tempests and not comforted I will lay thy stones with faire colours and thy foundations of Saphir And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be the peace
of thy children Isay 62.1 2. c. For Sions sake I will not hold my peace and for Jerusalems sake I will not rest untill the righteousnesse thereof goe forth as brightnesse and the salvation thereof as a Lampe that burneth and the Gentiles shall see thy righteousnesse and all Kings thy glory And thou shalt be called by a new name Thou shalt also be a crowne of glory in the hand of the Lord Of which places I may say as the Eunuch to Philip Speaketh the Prophet this of himselfe or of some other So speaketh the Prophet these glorious things of the Church past or the Church to come Of the Church past it cannot be for hitherto it hath been like Noahs Ark on the waters like the ship on a stormy sea conflicting with insupportable troubles and difficulties Though she hath had her respites and breathings yet she hath still beene held down and humbled tossed and afflicted under bondage and persecution And therefore it cannot bee meant of the Church past and if not must be meant of the Church to come And is it to come that God will make his Church thus glorious That her enemies shall fall before her Will God do this yet before the end And is the end of all things at hand Are we now fallen into the last sands why this is something to speak incouragement to us And this is from a word And thus you see Christ speaks incouragement to us as well as he did to his Disciples here He speakes incouragement by his word by his workes by his promises his proceedings Every way he speaks incouragement and if you die die with this confidence That God hath laid the foundation of the Churches deliverance though the oppositions swell never so high God takes it well at our hands when we do entertaine and maintaine good thoughts of him towards his people He delights in them that hope in his mercy Though you have never a promise yet to hope upon Gods nature his love to his Church And there is ground enough of hope from that even his love to his Church If you looke but upon what hee hath done to compasse a Church nay what hath suffered how he hath shed his blood for her All this would afford us something for our hope Will he do so much to purchase her and will he now lose her It is most sutable to the Gospell and most sutable to our relations to God yea and expectations from God nay and most sutable to a Christian spirit rather to dye over-hoping then over-fearing We can never over-hope Gods thoughts of love and mercy to his Church people nor his purposes and promises to them And therefore let it be said of us as t was of them Heb. 11.13 All these died in faith not having received the promises but having seen them afarre off were perswaded of them and imbraced them Let us doe our worke in our generation and leave our hopes and the remainder of the work if any remaine them that follow And thus much for the first thing viz. The way that Christ took to comfort and Incourage his Disciples against fears and dangers He spake to them A word from Christ is able to raise up up the drooping spirits of his people in trouble The end of the sixth Sermon WEE now come to the Second Scil. The incouragement it it self which is double 1. Be of good cheere 2. Be not afraid The Incouragement you see is doubled because their feares were doubled 1. They were in danger of drowning 2. They were in feare of a ghost Against this double Fear Christ gives a double incouragement Against the first Their danger in respect of the Tempest he bids them Bee of good cheare be of good courage believe Against the second their feare of the Ghost he bids them Be not afraid it is I one that comes not to destroy you but to save you It is I be not afraid In the generall from the double Incouragement observe That D. Christs help and reliefs are not onely sutable but they are proportionable to the necessities of his people Their feares and troubles were doubled and so were his incouragements also Single incouragement is too little for double feare as the one is doubled so is the other In the 68. Psalme verse 20. he is said to be n 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deus salvationum non frustra pluraliter loquitur non uno tantum modo Deus Saluiis est Deus sed inu meris modis Musc Mille mali species mille salutis erunt Read the 80. Psal 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The God of salvations many troubles and many salvations as our troubles cannot over-swell his power be too great for him to help neither can they be too many in number for him to help As the evills of his people are many so the Salvations of his people are many if wee have a thousand troubles hee hath a thousand salvations As hee hath more blessings than one so hath he more salvations than one He saves our soules from sinne and there is mercy more than enough for the greatest of sinnes 1 Tim. 1.14 and sinners Hee saves our bodies from Troubles and there can bee no Troubles above the safeties of God He is not a Saviour onely but an All-sufficient an Almighty Saviour Not onely a Redeemer but a perfect Redeemer yea a plenteous Redeemer With him is plenteous Redemption Psalm 130.7 Full troubles full redemption Overflowing evills over flowing redemption The necessities of the Creatures can never be above the salvations of God Nor men nor devills can make us more miserable than God is mercifull nor lay us so low but everlasting armes can raise us up Are men full of malice God is fuller of mercy Are they mighty to destroy God is more mighty to save Do they multiply our troubles God can multiply our supports our comforts our deliverances You can never bee in such a distresse but God is able to proportion your deliverance to your distresse With him is power Psal 62. Gods reliefes are not onely sutable but they are proportionable to the necessities of his people And the grounds hereof are R. 1. First Because they are the Reliefes of God the Helps of God That which God doth he doth throughly hee doth to purpose Men may doe things overtly slightly but so doth not God what he doth he doth throughly Gods Helps are through-helps full-helps Men may be too weak to relieve us their helps may be too short But so are not the helps of God 2. The helps of Gods people doe arise from Gods Mercy Bowells of Mercy Now you know what a man doth out of Love he doth Throughly he doth Fully All that God doth to his people is out of Love Power and Love can doe all Those two Attributes which God doth chiefly exercise in the relieving of his people doe speak the Reliefs of God Proportionable to their Necessities What cannot Infinite Power