But is this all? no, they shall bear thee up in their hands; as every servant desires and loves to take up the young heir, or the young master into his arms; so the Angels. It is a great matter, that the Lord promiseth to pitch his tents, and the Angels of the Lord shall pitch their tents round about them that Fear him: but here is more, the Angels shall not only pitch their tents, be their guard; but their nurses, to bear them up in their hands: but why? that thou dash not thy foot against a stone: when children begin to go, they are very apt to fall, and get many a knock; to stumble at every little stone: now there are many stones of stumbling that are in our way, and we are very apt to fall and mis-carry; but such is the goodness of God, the providence of God, the goodness of his providence, that as he hath provided his Angels to be our guard, in opposition to all our foreign enemies; so he hath provided his Angels to be our Nurses, in opposition to all our weaknesses and infirmities, that we get no hurt, that we miscarry not in the least, that we dash not our foot against a stone: Oh how tender is the Lord of his! in other Scriptures you know the Lord is said to keep his people as the apple of his eye: what is a man more render of, than the apple of his eye? and when doth the Lord keep his people as the apple of his eye, but when they are lowest, and in the worst condition? In the 32. of Deuteronomy, vers. 10. He found him in a desert land, and in the wast howling wilderness: he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. When they came out of Egypt, and when they were in the howling wilderness, the Lord did keep his people then at the apple of his eye: and if you look into the 2d. of Zechariah, you shall find he did the same when they came out of Babylon, Zach. 2. vers. 6. Ho, ho, come forth & flee from the land of the North, deliver thy self, oh Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon: there were some that staid still behind, that were so wedded to their houses there, that they would not stir out of Babylon, some of ⟨p. 4⟩the worst of them; concerning these he says at the 8th verse, After the glory hath he sent me to the Nations which spoiled you; for, he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his eye: sinful poor unworthy people, that would not go home when they might, would not go out of Babylon when they might;
But is this all? no, they shall bear thee up in their hands; as every servant desires and loves to take up the young heir, or the young master into his armes; so the Angels. It is a great matter, that the Lord promiseth to pitch his tents, and the Angels of the Lord shall pitch their tents round about them that Fear him: but here is more, the Angels shall not only pitch their tents, be their guard; but their nurses, to bear them up in their hands: but why? that thou dash not thy foot against a stone: when children begin to go, they are very apt to fall, and get many a knock; to stumble at every little stone: now there are many stones of stumbling that are in our way, and we are very apt to fall and mis-carry; but such is the goodness of God, the providence of God, the goodness of his providence, that as he hath provided his Angels to be our guard, in opposition to all our soreign enemies; so he hath provided his Angels to be our Nurses, in opposition to all our weaknesses and infirmities, that we get no hurt, that we miscarry not in the least, that we dash not our foot against a stone: Oh how tender is the Lord of his! in other Scriptures you know the Lord is said to keep his people as the apple of his eye: what is a man more render of, than the apple of his eye? and when doth the Lord keep his people as the apple of his eye, but when they are lowest, and in the worst condition? In the 32. of Deuteronomy, vers. 10. He found him in a desert land, and in the wast howling wilderness: he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. When they came out of Egypt, and when they were in the howling wildernesse, the Lord did keep his people then at the apple of his eye: and if you look into the 2d. of Zachary, you shall find he did the same when they came out of Babylon, Zach. 2. vers. 6. Ho, ho, come forth & flee from the land of the North, deliver thy self, oh Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon: there were some that staid still behind, that were so wedded to their houses there, that they would not stir out of Babylon, some of ⟨p. 4⟩the worst of them; concerning these he says at the 8th verse, After the glory hath he sent me to the Nations which spoyled you; for, he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his eye: sinful poor unworthy people, that would not go home when they might, would not go out of Babylon when they might;
