The divine life in three treatises

And who shall be against us while God is for us? or who shall condemn us when it is he that justifieth us? Though we be put to say as David, Psal. 142 4. [I looked on my right hand and beheld, but there was no man that would know me; refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul:] Yet we may say with him, vers. 5. & 3. [I cried unto thee, O Lord; I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the Land of the Living: Bring my soul out of prison that I may praise thy Name: The righteous shall compass me about: for thou shalt d•al bountifully with me: 2, 3 I poured out my complaint before him; I showed before him my trouble: When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path: in the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.] Thus [God is our refuge and strength; a very present help in trouble.] Psal. 46. 1. Therefore should we not fear though the earth were removed, and though the mountains were carried into the midst of the Sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, &c. vers. 2, 3. Though as David saith, Psal. 41. 5, 6, 7. [Mine enemies speak evil of me: when shall he dye, and his name perish? And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to it self; when he goeth abroad he telleth it: All ⟨p. 339⟩that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt: An evil disease, say they, cleaveth fast unto him; and now that he lieth, he shall rise up no more: Yea my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, that did eat of my bread, hath lift up his heel against me—] Yet we may add as he, v. 12. [And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, and settest me before thy face for ever.] Though (as Psal. 35. 7, &c. Without cause they have hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul: 11. And false witnesses did rise up, they laid to my charge things that I knew not; they rewarded me evil for good: 15, 16. In my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear and ceased not; with hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth: 20. For they speak not peace, but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the Land.] Yet vers. 9. [My soul shall be joyful in the Lord; it shall rejoice in his salvation: 10.