Remains of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…

But let me show you, in some particulars wherein God hath done more for you then for others, as you are prisoners.

But let me shew you, in some particulars wherein God hath done more for you then for others, as you are prisoners.

First, You are better fed then others. Who ⟨p. 163⟩do live upon the bounty of Gods extraordinary providence like you? may not God almighty speak to you, as the Apostle to them, 1 Cor. 9, 7. Who of you goeth a warfare at his own charges? When our Saviour sent forth his disciples without scrip or shoes, says he, lacked ye any thing? they answered, nothing. May not we say so? if he say to us, lacked you any thing? we must say no, he hath poured out his kindness upon us. O how sweetly did the holy prophet, think you, relish every bit of meat when God provided every bit so extraordinarily for him, 1 Kings. 17. 6. And the Raven brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening, God doth not send it to us by a Raven; but by friends: but all he sends: bread and flesh in the morning and bread and flesh in the evening without our care. And is not God to be observed in this? you know there is a kind of a Famine abroad, but God will not have it a Famine here. Who ever wants, God will be sure that his prisoners shall not want. As the King took care of Jeremiah, Jer. 37. 21. Then Zedekiah the King commanded, that they should commit Jeremiah to the Court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the Bakers-street until all the bread in the City was spent. When Jeremiah was in prison, God would be sure that he should not want as long as there was any bread to be had in the City. So God commands concerning his prisoners; though there be a kind of Famine abroad, God will not suffer his prisoners to want.