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An exhortation to trust in God, and not to despair of His help and fall from Him, in this dark time of popery that is coming upon the church written by Digby Bull.
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Bull, Digby.
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Wing B5411; ESTC R6962
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St. Peter 1 Pet. 5.6 7 Humble your selves therefore under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time casting all your care upon him for he careth for you And upon all accounts whatsoever are we to trust in and rely upon Almighty God in all wants and in all dangers both for the obtaining of all such things as are necessary and needful for us and for the avoiding of all such things as are injurious and hurtful to us And 1 We are to trust in and rely upon the Lord Jehovah the living and true God for help and succor in all the wants and needs and necessities that we ly and labor under at any time here in this World We are to rely upon him for a supply to all our temporal wants or food and raiment and of all other necessaries of this life and not to vex and diquiet our selves with carking care and despondent thoughts nor to have recourse to any sinful and unlawful means to furnish our selves with such things as we stand in need of We are to use our own honest endeavours and to call upon him for relief and then to believe that he will supply us with such things as we want so far as he sees it to be needful and convenient for us And this we are more particularly exhorted to in the sacred Scriptures and are therein assured that God will supply us with all such things as we want and have great need of This the Psalmist sheweth Psal 33.18 19 Behold the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him upon them that hope in his mercy To deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine And Psal 34.9 10. O fear the Lord ye his Saints for there is no want to them that fear him The young Lions do lack and suffer hunger but they that fear the Lord shall not want any good thing And again Psal 37.3 saith the Psalmist Trust in the Lord and do good so shalt thou dwell in the land and verily thou shalt be fed Those that do this need not doubt of a supply herein And saith God by the Prophet Isaiah 41.17 18 When the poor and needy seek water and there is none and their tongue faileth for thirst I the Lord will hear them I the God of Israel will not forsake them I will open rivers in the high places and fountains in the midst of the valleys I will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry land springs of water And our blessed Lord doth exhort us to rely upon God in this respect and dissuades us from all anxiety of mind and carking care about the things of this world assuring us that God will not fail to provide these things for us if we serve him as we ought Matt. 6.25 Therefore I say unto you saith he take no thought for your life what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink nor yet for your body what ye shall put on Is not the life more than meat and the body than raiment Behold the fowls of the air for they sow not neither do they reap nor gather into barns yet your heavenly Father feedeth them Are ye not much better than they And ver 28 And why take ye thought for raiment Consider the lilies of the field how they grow they toil not neither do they spin And yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these Wherefore if God so cloath the grass of the field which to day is and to morrow is cast into the oven shall he not much more cloath you O ye of little faith Therefore take no thought saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink or wherewithal shall we be cloathed For your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things But seek ye first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you Our blessed Lord here doth let us know that God having given us life and a body will give us also such things as are necessary for the supporting of them and that he well understands and minds what is needful for us And by God's care of inferior creatures he doth assure us that he will have a greater care of us and will be sure not to fail us herein if we seek his Kingdom and the Righteousness thereof And to this purpose Lu. 12.22 And often are we exhorted by the Apostles to lay aside all solicitous thoughts about these things and to depend upon Almighty God for them It is our duty to trust in God in this respect and if we should be stript of all in this dark Time that is coming upon us we are then especially to put it in practice and to rely upon the good Providence of God and not to doubt but that he will relieve and help us so far as he shall see it to be convenient for us And for a supply to all our spiritual wants and needs are we to rely and depend upon Almighty God We are to make our earnest prayers to him for the assistance of his Grace and Spirit to enable us to do our duty and to overcome all temptations that shall assault us and for all such Graces and Virtues and other spiritual succors that we have need of and then to depend upon him for relief herein And our blessed Lord doth assure us that we shall be sufficiently furnished with divine Assistance if we do so Lu. 11.13 saith he If ye then being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children how much more shall your heavenly Father give the holy Spirit to them that ask him And saith St. James 1.5 If any of you lack wisdom let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not and it shall be given him For the blessed assistance of God's Spirit and for all heavenly wisdom and understanding and power to withstand temptations and for all other spiritual aid and help are we to seek to God and to rely upon him for a supply herein and then we shall be sure to be furnished with a sufficiency of them if we seek them as we ought 2. We are to trust in Almighty God in all the Dangers that we at any time shall be exposed to assuring our selves that he will not then be wanting to us And this is the thing which the Text seemeth chiefly to respect as the chapter sheweth We are not rashly and wilfully to run into dangers and so to tempt the Lord but in all the dangers and hazards that we are brought into by the various Revolutions and Vicissitudes of this World or that do any ways casually befal us are we to trust in and rely upon Almighty God for help and deliverance In all times of the Plague and Pestilence and great Sickness and Mortality In all times of War and Bloodshed and great Persecution and Tribulation such as we are