A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

In the deepest destitution of all earthly comforts, so powerful is his hand, so loving his eye, to those that serve him! Elisha had an host of men sent against him; How should one man escape from an whole army?^a His man cried, the Master believed, the Lord protected. When men refuse to help Noah, the Angels are ready. When the whole world expected him to perish with themselves, then the Lord is his Pilot, and the last thing their eyes must see, is Noah safe.^b The Lord is […] light, and my salvation, whom shall I fear? David found God to be his Vice-Ad•• rall, and to carry the light before him, in the darkest storms and most violent wa••• of his trouble. There is no calamity so potent as is our Deliverer. Therefore as the Legend moralizeth of St. Christopher, that he would serve none but the greatest that was, and still as he found one more powerful, he would change his master: till a• last from man to man, and from man to the Devil, he came from the Devil to Christ, who was the strongest of all. So if any thing in the world, yea, the whole world were more potent than God, there was some colour for demurring upon o•• choice. But seeing that^c He only doth what he pleaseth, in heaven, earth, sea, all pla••: ⟨p. 581⟩and what he will do, all the rest must do: and that his Majesty is not more infinite •han his Mercy: that he is not so ready to strike the obstinate, as to spare the prostrate: Lord, let us love thee above all things that be, that thou mayest deliver us •rom all things that be hurtful.

In the deepest destitution of all earthly comforts, so powerfull is his hand, so loving his eye, to those that serve him! Elisha had an hoast of men sent against him; How should one man escape from an whole armie?