should please God to bring it to this Thou knowest how to abound with Joy and to eat thy Bread at a plentiful Table with a merry Heart but dost thou know how to be contented in a time of Want and Scarcity and to rejoyce in the God of thy Salvation in a Day of Famine as the Holy Prophet could 3 Habbuk 17 18. Fourthly Seek for and diligently look after those things which you cannot lose nor be deprived of In the midst of the uncertainty you live at as to all the Comforts of this present World make sure of something I mean something that is worth your pains to get and that it is your interest to keep In the 17 Psalm 14. we read of the Men of the World that their Bellies are fill'd with hid treasures and possibly so is their Bags and their Cherts and their Houses too all full and that not of Trash but Treasure But poor Creatures this is their Misery that they have their Portion in this Life They have a Portion and it looks great makes an huge noise but alas it is only in and for his Life We read also of the sure mercies of David 55 Isa. 3. Incline your ear and come unto me hear and your Soul shall live and I will make an everlasting Covenant with you even the sure mercies of David now be you so wise as to mind them It is very good to be sure excellent to have that which is so Christ told Martha in a way of friendly Reproof to her that Mary her Sister had chosen the good part which should never be taken from her neither by God who was too good to do it nor by Men and Devils who were too weak That was a wise Choice be you perswaded to make it Take not up with that which may leave you and which sooner or later you must leave Sit not down with any thing that Thieves may break thro' and steal or that Moths can corrupt or Rust can fret or Time shall see the end of Look out for Christ who is the everlasting Father and able to save to the utmost of your Needs and Dangers and Desires and of Eternity too pray for the Spirit he will abide with you for ever Grace will grow up to Glory and Holiness bring you to an Happiness that knows neither measure nor end Follow the Noble Example which was set you by the Holy Apostles and Primitive Christians taught of God who 2 Corinth 4. 18. Looked not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen because the things which are seen are Temporal but the things which are not seen are Eternal Spiritual Blessings in heavenly places and things are of all good things the best and also the most lasting Riches and Honour are with Wisdom But what such Riches as take unto themselves wings and flee away such Honour as is a vain and vanishing breath No no durable Riches and Righteousness 8 Prov. 18. When all worldly Enjoyments take their last Farewell leaving you for ever you need not look upon your selves as Persons undone but say for all this the lines are fallen unto me in a pleasant place still I have a God here and I shall have an Heaven hereafter VSE 2. Learn that it is both the Duty and Interest of Persons in Relation to study and endeavour the being pleasant to one another Ionathan was so to his Brother David and by being so He obtained a good Report in the Text Very pleasant hast thou been unto me This is a fair and lovely Copy for us to Write after drawn by an excellent Hand let us all imitate it and come up to it as near as we can Whether we stand in Natural or Civil or Church-Relation whether Conjugal Parental or Filial whether we are Masters Mistresses Servants Fellow-Citizens or Church-Members let us labour to sweeten that Relation and to render our selves as easie and acceptable as possibly may be to one another that we may not be as Thorns in one anothers sides nor pricks in one anothers eyes there will be Aloes enough we had need bring good store of Honey It is an excellent Command the Scripture gives Follow peace with all Men go and do it follow Peace abroad tho' it run from you follow it but be sure to keep Peace at home yea not only Peace but Pleasantness too and both these are to be found in the ways of Wisdom 3 Prov. 17. Her ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace See then that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise A great deal of benefit will be the fruit and effect hereof your Relations will have the Comfort of it while Providence continues you with them and so will your selves also and besides that you will have the Comfort of it when you come to die a reflection thereupon will be exceeding cordial and over and above you will have the Honour of it after Death Nabal was a very Chub a morose and ill-natur'd Fellow Well what did his Servants say of him behind his back while he lived see 1 Samuel 25. 17. He is such a Son of Belial that a Man cannot speak to him And what did his prudent Wife say of him after he was dead 25 Verse of the same Chapter Let not my Lord regard this man of Belial even Nabal for as his Name is so is he Nabal is his Name and folly is with him whereas by your being pleasant to your Friends and Relations you will raise a Monument to your own Honour far better than Absolam's Pillar and tho' your Body will corrupt in the Grave and return to Dust yet your Name will be embalmed and your Memory blessed And to this end I commend to you by way of Advice these three things desiring you to put them in practice First Let your Love be sincere hearty constant and free a self-evidencing Love that there may be more ground and reason to believe it than your bare say so Be sure that your Relation carry along with it all the Affection that it calls for and all the desireable fruits of that Affection It is this my Friends that makes every thing savoury and puts a good relish into it take this away and all that remains is nothing else but bitterness What is Communion and Cohabitation without Love but a constant Burden And what are Services but ungrateful and what is it that makes them so when they are good in themselves Nothing but their coming from such an hand The Conjugal Yoke will be very heavy and pinch and gall if it be not lin'd with Love and is there not reason Did not God reject and abhorr all that the hypocritical and profane Iews did in his worship upon this very account because he knew they did not love him Isai. 29. 13. This People draw near me with their mouth and with their lips do honour me but have removed their Heart far from me And for that cause
he delighted not in the blood of Bullocks or Rams or He-goats but their Oblations were Vain their Incense an Abomination and their solemn Meetings Iniquity Why was Ionathan so very pleasant to David The words immediately following the Text tell us Thy Love to me was wonderful Secondly Labour for and in all your Converses be expressive of a sweetness of Temper there is without peradventure a great deal lieth in the Natural Disposition Many Persons who are enriched with the true Grace of God are notwithstanding that Burdens to themselves and very uneasie to their Friends because of the Untowardness of their Temper I have heard of a Person very Eminent for his Place and Learning yea and Godliness too of whom yet it was said Tho' he had Grace enough for ten men he had not Grace enough for himself The Soil was rank and the Weeds that grew in it got to such an height that too often they overtopt the Divine Plantation Is it not too ordinary and common to find some Imperious and Lordly others fretful and peevish Some are Lions and others are Wasps every little thing almost unhingeth and puts them out of humour they are angry for Trifles the very wagging of a Feather by no means enduring a contradiction in their Speeches or a being crost in their Wills but all must study their Humour and comply with it otherwise they will be all on a Flame and soon make the House too hot But this will not do they are to be greatly condemned and those that live with them to be as greatly pitied specially those that are stak'd down and must bide by it The Lord give them of his Comforts for indeed they have Cross enough As for you that are so much Friends to your selves as to desire a being pleasant to those that are concerned with you labour to file off this Ruggedness rectifie your own Spirits conquer your selves pray and labour for a Mastery over your unruly Passions Get that meek and quiet spirit which is an Ornament of great price in the sight of God 1 Pet. 3. 4. A singular Friend of mine by nature hasty and furious attained to so great a Victory over himself by Prayer Reading of and Meditation upon the History of Christ that none could put him into a Discomposure Make you use of the same Remedy remembring that which is to sweeten other things must it self be much more so Wormwood and Gall are very improper Means for so excellent an End Thirdly Give diligence that ye may know the whole duty of your place and make Conscience of doing whatsoever you know to be so Contribute all that is within the compass and reach of your Power to the spiritual eternal good and temporal comfort of those with whom you have to do It is a very good Commendation which Lemuel's Mother gives of a virtuous Woman 31 Prov. 26. That she opens her mouth with wisdom and in her Tongue is the Law of Kindness She hath a Liberty to speak it is her right but she useth it with discretion and affection and when her Lips are opened specially to her Husband they drop like an Honey-comb There you see the amiableness of her Temper and Conversation But that is not all there was another curious stroke given in her Picture before a choice Character in the 12th Verse She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life She is carefull to avoid doing evil ready and constant in doing good yea all the good she can being as Paul would have every one unwearied in well-doing Oh! this is a noble Life what our precious Lord and Saviour led while upon Earth He went up and down doing good therein leaving us an Example that we may tread in his steps Do good all of you in those several places in which Providence hath set you all the good you can fill them up with Love and Duty and do good to the several Persons you have to do with Let nothing be wanting in you in order to their being really the better for you their Souls being the better for you that they may have cause to say Blessed be God that ever I lived in such a Family that ever I had such a Wife was married to such an Husband descended of such Parents served such a Master and Mistress You will then be pleasant indeed when you are profitable when you teach the Ignorant and reduce the Wanderer when you enlighten the dark Mind and blow up the languishing Flame when you strengthen the weak hands and confirm the feeble Knees And I beseech you seriously consider with your selves why God did make the Woman and order out the Conjugal Relation and we may say the same of others It was that Persons in those Relations might be Helps meet for one another And truly that Person lives to no purpose that doth not live to good purpose and he doth not live to good Purpose who doth not live to that Purpose for which God made him and sent him and set him in the place where he is That person who is an useless Vessel I do not and you need not wonder if he be a Vessel in which there is no pleasure All that know him may look upon him as an unprofitable burden to the Earth and so he may be to his Friends for he doth nothing else but take up a room and cumber the ground USE Third Since the taking away of pleasant things doth bring Saints themselves in distress we may learn how weak impotent and inconsiderable a Creature man is The Royal Prophet tells us 39 Psal. 5. Verily every man at his best state is altogether Vanity This is a Truth I have searched it I have found it I am sure of it Verily it is so not onely some men those that are poor and sickly and silly but every man the youngest the strongest the wisest the most holy and that not only at some times and in some Conditions when he is diseased and discompos'd but at his best state when he is most himself when his Faculties and Powers of Soul and Body are raised up to the highest pitch and most in tune for work then even then He is vanity He not only hath some Vanity in him some mixture of vanity some Dross with his Gold some Water with his Wine but He is vanity He may e'en be defined by it nay more He is altogether Vanity it over-spreads him it runs through the whole from the sole of the Foot to the Crown of the Head he is Vanity In se uno omne genus vanitatis complectitur In himself alone he contains all sorts of Vanity If any one is lost it may be found again in Man The several and manifold lines of Vanity meet in Man as in the Centre of them The Doctrin we have been discoursing of is one proof and Evidence hereof David was a good Man a godly Man a man after Gods own Heart a Man of War a man of
Mountains therefore his Death I look upon not as my Affliction but Deliverance accordingly some Tears I will drop over him and bestow a sigh or two there but can soon wipe mine eyes and dry my Cheeks again leaving sorrow and mourning upon his account as a business more proper for them who find themselves concern'd 2 Sam. 1. 24. Ye daughters of Ierusalem weep over Saul who cloathed you in Scarlet with other delights who put on Ornaments of Gold upon your Apparel You have reason for he was your Friend and Benefactor As for mourning over Ionathan that is my Province my Business and I undertake it and will go about it with all my might there is none to be found in Israel that I will trust with it none that can do it so well as my self there being none so much concerned none so inwardly sensible none so great a Sufferer none so deeply wounded I am distress'd for him brought into a great strait While I had him my Heart was enlarged with Love to him and Joy in him how did it flame how did it leap how strong was my Affection how high my Delight but now he is gone those Comforts are gone with him my Heart is pent and opprest my Sun is set and I am clouded benighted left alone to bemoan my self We have finished the Doctrinal part and now come to the Improvement of all in a way of Application And there are only three things which I shall bring in as so many Corollaries and speak to in order to the making the late Providence and my present Discourse profitable to you USE 1. From hence learn the weak slippery hold you have of all your worldly Comforts Tho' your Title to them be good the best that can be founded not only upon Providence but Covenant yet they may slip thro' your Fingers before you are aware your Possession is not sure Whatever sweetness you taste in them whatever expectations you have from them they may take their leave and disappoint you there by at once proving their own Vanity and your Vexation Hence they are called things that are not because they have so little of being are of so uncertain continuance and no further removed from nothing They are here to Day looking pleasantly but may be gone to Morrow yea before and leave you drown'd in Tears Fragrant Flowers they are by which you are at present greatly refreshed but know not how soon they may wither in your hands You greatly rejoice in your loving Friends dear Relations faithful Ministers but their Breath is in their Nostrils and wherein are they to be accounted of Ionah was exceeding glad of the Gourd under the refrigerating shadow whereof he sate comfortably and at ease in a scorching day but a Worm smote it that it dyed by this the good Man was transported into an excess of Passion and disordered throughout Iob complained not without Cause Iob 10. 17. that Changes and Wars were upon him or against him a multitude a variety of Changes they trod upon the heels of one another so that he was at no time safe knew not what a Settlement meant could not say the Morrow will be as this Day nay he could not commend one Day before the Night the fairest Morning he had seen overcast and converted into a blustering Afternoon He that hath the most Eagle-eye and pierceth into Mysteries cannot look into the Purposes of God concerning his present State nor into the Womb of Providence so as to tell aforehand what a Day will bring forth The gross Mistakes of every Almanack about the Weather proclaim the Impudence and Ignorance of the Star-gazers and it is to be attributed to the Patience and Mercy of God that he doth not strike those Diviners mad As God hath a variety of Mercies and Blessings so that Day unto Day sheweth Love and Night unto Night Faithfulness he compasseth his Children with Favour as a shield loads them with Benefits and we may say many such things are with him so hath He great store of Afflictions and Exercises for them too an House of Bondage an howling Wilderness and a red Sea Before you have finished your Course pass'd through the World and enter'd into your Rest you may be sure of Changes but none of you can tell what those Changes will be how God will try you nor in what Vein bleed you Now through Mercy you have your Comforts but know not how little awhile you shall have them Ruth 1. 20 21. Call me not Naomi call me Marah for the Lord hath dealt bitterly with me I went out full and the Lord hath brought me home again empty The Comforts of Life are not sure for Life it self is not that is at best a Vapour and may be soon exhal'd Upon this account let the Advice I shall give in four things be acceptable to you First Do not overvalue any of those outward good things you have Do not withhold from them that which is meet There is a Love and Delight due to them according to the several degrees of Excellency which they have and of nearness in which they stand to you this is a Debt you owe them and what you owe you are obliged to pay if you do not Divine Justice may come upon you for it Oh that you would wisely consider how dreadful and tormenting a sting it would be to you at the last if Conscience which is now a Curious Observer of you and all the Passages of your Lives should arrest you and say Man Woman thou art now fetching thy last Breath a dying Creature ready to launch into Eternity and to appear before the Tribunal of God but know thou diest desperately in debt to thy Friends thy Relations and thy Family thou hast lived with them and conversed with them but not carried toward them as thou oughtest to have done thou didst not abound in those Expressions of Love which thou shouldest nay thou didst want the Love its self thou didst not take that Care of them thou shouldest neither Care of their Bodies nor of their Souls Indeed it is no wonder that their Souls were neglected by thee since thou didst not at all mind thine own thou wast not so kind to them as Civility would have taught thee to have been but morose and chubbid at one time thy Carriage was strange at another thou didst put on the Countenance of a Fury thy Words were cutting like sharp Swords nor didst thou hold thy Hands but they lighted heavy upon the Wife of thy Bosom unnatural Brute as thou art whom thou shouldest have been tender over and loved as thine own flesh As for you that are herein guilty I cannot but tell you Your Relations now feel the want of your Love and Care and Kindness but you will then feel the Smart and Horrour of your having been so willingly and wickedly wanting to your Duty Therefore amend your wayes and put away the evil of your doings from before the Eyes of
God learn your Duty and chearfully apply to the doing of it do it all do it more and more take Delight and Pleasure in doing it Love them love to Love them let your Love continue let it abound convince them of your loving them that whatever other wants they may have they may be sure of this that they do not want your Love But still do not overdo Love God as much as ever you can because him you cannot love too much you cannot bestow too much upon him to whom you owe more than all you have amounts to therefore there give your Affections their full liberty lay the Reins upon their Neck but when you have to do with Creatures take heed to your selves and love with Caution let there be a true honest and faithful Heart but yet a weaned Heart There is a great difference between Endearing and Doting study and practise the former avoid the latter 1 Cor. 7. 29. It remaineth that they that have Wives be as though they had none And the same is to be said of others Let those that have Husbands be as tho' that had none and they that have Children and they that have Brethren Sisters and Friends Too much Love layes a foundation and makes way for too much Sorrow if while you have Comforts you are not as tho' you had none I am sure when you weep you will not be as though you wept not Alas you will scarce find in your Heart how to resign that which you have fixed your Heart upon In such a Case and unto such a Person the taking away of a Comfort or the dissolving of a Relation will be not as the putting off a Garment but rending the very Caul of your Heart Secondly Wisely and carefully Improve your Comforts while you have them Be as good Husbands as possibly you may they may not abide long with you therefore while they do suffer them not to lye dead upon your hands Have you Friends and Relations draw from them all possible Soul advantages labour you to be the better for them and do your utmost that they may be the better for you be mutually helpful one to another quickening warming strengthening one another provoking to Love and Good Works That Proverb is not to be slighted for Wisdom is in it Make Hay while the Sun shines By present Diligence prevent those idle and unprofitable Wishes that come too late Oh that I had been wiser Oh that I had done so and so Do you now and every Day think and repeat the Thoughts of this who have Husbands and Wives Brethren and Sisters Children and Servants Ministers and People and you that walk together in an Holy Communion meeting in the same Assembly attending upon the same Ordinances and sitting at the same Table and let these Thoughts be mighty in their Operation And as it ought to be thus with reference to your Friends and Relations so to your Estates and Possessions Many are all the Year round digging like Moles in the Earth scraping raking and heaping up of Riches as if there would be no end of their days but they should live here alway Like the Horse-leeches Daughter they never say it is enough as some never think they have sinn'd enough but drink in Iniquity like Water and draw it with Cart-ropes so these never think they have got enough in the fulness of their sufficiency they apprehend themselves in straits Would these Persons hearken to me I would advise them to be ready to communicate and do all the Good they can to others since they do not know how soon they may die and so have no more Opportunities for Charity and Usefulness in the World By Acts of bountiful Compassion make sure of something considerable that you may carry with you before Death comes to take you from all and all from you What thy hand findeth to do either in Works of Piety or Charity speed the doing of it do it with all thy might considering there is no work nor device nor invention in the Grave whither thou art going Eccl. 9. 10. Thirdly Provide for Changes Expect them and arm your selves that when they come they may not do you a fatal Mischief Do not say as David did in his Prosperity 30 Psalm 6. I shall never be moved tho' thou thinkest the Lord by his favour hath made thy mountain to stand strong Dream not of such a settlement upon Earth as knoweth no shaking thou mayst quickly be moved and thy Mountain too thy Mountain as big as it looks may dwindle and shrink it self up into a Molehill or the hand of Divine Providence may take it and cast it into a Sea of Trouble Notwithstanding the height of his Confidence he soon found it so and in the next words hath left his Experience upon Record for the teaching us to cherish in our selves more solid and sober thoughts Thou didst hide thy Face and I was troubled God doth not need to arm against us nor throw his Thunderbolts it is but hiding of his Face that is enough to cover us with the shadow of Death and put all into Confusion and this or any thing else that God pleaseth to do may be done in the twinkling of an Eye Therefore under the warmest and most comfortable Beams of Divine Favour under the brightest shinings forth of the Face of God we should think of a Cloud and in the highest Spring tide of Creature comforts prepare for as low an Ebb. It doth not indeed upon any account become us to give way unto those Fears that would deprive us of the comfort of our Enjoyments nor when God hath put a Cup of Consolation into our hands go about to imbitter it to our selves with the frightful apprehensions of that which may never be But it is our Wisdom in the serenest day and when there is Peace round about to cherish those prudent fears which may enable us to look Terror in the Face without being distracted by it and to endure evil without having our Hearts broken by it There is nothing lost no hurt done by a calm sedate propounding difficult Cases to our selves As thus Now I am full but I may be emptyed as from Vessel to Vessel Now I am cloathed with Silk and beautiful Garments but God may strip me of these and put Sackcloth upon my Loins Now I have a convenient stately House richly hung and furnished but Sons of Violence may break in and steal or a Fire may burn it down to the ground so that I shall not have where to lay mine head Now I have a dear and Loving Husband who careth for me but I may lose him and be brought to a State of desolate Widowhood Now I have enough and to spare an overplus for the relief of the Poor but the time may come wherein I shall want Necessaries and pine away stricken thrô for lack of the fruits of the Field My Soul how wilt thou be able to bear up if it
for those Graces to yield their Fruit those Spices to flow forth Now act submission to the Divine Will Here am I let him do what seemeth good unto him Fall to Improving of the Affliction get Meat out of the Eater Honey from the Carkase of the Lion that what hath devoured thy Comforts may seed thy Graces see if you cannot by an holy Chimistry extract Gains out of Losses and turn Iron into Gold Try what advantage you can make of the Sickness that consumes you of the pain that grinds and tortures you what Life you can fetch out of the Grave the death of such a Friend or Relation there is no Affliction with which we are exercised but it puts into our hands an opportunity for some special work or other there is no Condition but what hath a particular duty belonging to it Do not say I am now altogether useless and unserviceable who is it that hath made thee so God hath not have a care thou dost not make thy self so What thô thy Work doth not lie where it did it lieth somewhere find it out and do it I most freely and readily grant you cannot do your present Duty nor any thing else in your own strength as it ought to be done You cannot stir a Finger without Divine Concurrence nor lift up a Prayer unless the Spirit set his hand to it there must be an helping of the Infirmity else no performance of the Duty It is one above that worketh both to will and to do of his own good pleasure But however go you about your Work set to it heartily and in good earnest going for strength where it is to be had Seek it in and from Christ in whom it is laid up for you To this purpose for your Encouragement remember that of Paul in the 4 Phil. 13. I can do all things thrô Christ who strengtheneth me Upon the gracious conveyances of Life Spirit and Power from Christ he is able to do the work of a Christian and of an Apostle to resist Temptation to bear Affliction and glory in Tribulation He was able wisely to improve what he had and willingly to part with it able to deny himself and yet enjoy himself when he had done so In short while you bitterly complain that you know not what to do have a care you do not overdo in inflaming your own wounds afflicting and sinking your own Spirits when the hand of God hath touched you Secondly Labour to extricate your selves and with all possible speed procure your own deliverance and enlargement out of these Distresses Submit to the Loss God hath order'd out to you and to the Affliction with which you are exercised Hath he brought you into the Dust lay your Mouths there and lie quietly till he bring you forth to the light and shew you his Smiles and Salvation but get out of the distress as fast as may be only see that it be in the right way Be content that a Storm should be upon thy Tabernacle as long as God will have it there but command thy Soul to be silent and still and as soon as thou canst recover the calm of thy Spirit Our Lord and Saviour of his own accord came to do the Will of his Father and without hesitancy yielded to a suffering Condition not running from it to the last but breathing out his last upon a Cross but his Agony did not last long very sharp indeed it was so that therein he sweat drops of Blood but it was short and quickly went over again and in all his after Trials he expressed a full and most sweet Composure of Soul and carried it with a true greatness of Spirit There should be in us a due sense of Losses and Afflictions otherwise we shall be guilty of offering an Affront unto God and putting a slight upon him and we shall prejudice our selves by not serching that good out of an Actiction which we might But still we must be careful to moderate our grief as much as possibly we can both as to degree and duration returning to a right and even Temper It is most honourable for the Christian and comfortable to him when Grace doth that which Time will In order hereunto I advise these four things First Ease your selves in a way of Prayer It is indeed very good when an Oppressed Person can broach the Vessel and give his Sorrow vent in Tears I my self have known some among others an Eminent and Noble Lady so full of Sorrow that their Hearts were ready to break relieved by Weeping when all their Friends that came to Comfort them prov'd Physicians of no value but the best and most excellent way is to mingle Tears and Prayers together Weep over your Afflictions if you can but withal go and tell your Father of them pouring out the Complaints and Desires of your Souls into his Bosom Poor Hannah was in great distress having an Adversary in the House with her who multiplied provocations to make her fret whereupon she became bitter of Soul In that Case she tried what God would do and sought unto him 1 Samuel 1. 10. She wept sore that she could not help nor did she endeavour it Tears have their Rhetorick but she also prayed And O! how much did she gain by it what abundance of Peace what Quietness and Comfort did her Prayer fetch into her It is said ver 18. She went away and her Countenance was no more sad While she was praying God gave her a Gracious Smile a look of Love and she was a cheerful Woman ever after Faith and Prayer will do the work notwithstanding the difficulties of it and scatter the Clouds be they never so thick The more a gracious Soul relies on God in a way of Believing and seeks him in a way of humble fervent Supplication the easier will every Burden be to it the lighter every Affliction and the more comfortable every Condition Secondly Put the most fair and candid sense you can upon Providences and make the best interpretation of every thing God doth with you We should have both Honourable Thoughts of it and Amicable too for He is too Righteous to do wrong to any of his Creatures and too Gracious to do hurt to any of his Children When our Lord had open'd the Ears of the Deaf Man and loos'd his Tongue the People said 7 Mark 37. He hath done all things well say the same of God for it is true He doth not fail in any of his Undertakings nor miscarry in any of the works of his hands but doth all things like himself like a God Do not only assert this of his Providences in General but bring it down and apply it to particular Dispensations He hath done well in this and well in that 119 Psalm 65. Thou hast dealt well with thy Servant O Lord according to thy Word 71 Verse It is good for me that I have been afflicted 75. I know O Lord that thy judgments are right