I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

O! says one, I am a poor, feeble, and a weak Creature; some are strong in the Lord, and in the power of his Might; who do a great deal of Service for God in their day: but as for me, I am a poor Babe in Christ (if a Babe) and so am able to do little or nothing for God: Therefore I am thus discouraged and cast down, have I not just cause and reason for it?

O! saies one, I am a poor, feeble, and a weak Creature; some are strong in the Lord, and in the power of his Might; who do a great deal of Service for God in their day: but as for me, I am a poor Babe in Christ (if a Babe) and so am able to do little or nothing for God: Therefore I am thus discouraged and cast down, have I not just cause and reason for it?

Answ. No: For God is able to make all Grace to abound towards you, that ye always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good Work, 2 Cor. 9.8. And if God have recompensed your weakness with Wisdom, then surely you have no ⟨p. 77⟩cause to complain of your weakness:¹ sometimes weakness is recompensed with wisdom, for says Solomon, Pro. 30.24. There be four things that are little upon the Earth: but they are exceeding wise. The Ants, the Conies, the Locusts, and the Spider. Wherein doth the wisdom of the Ants consist? He tells you in vers. 25. The Ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in Summer. In time of plenty they do lay up for the time of want. Wherein doth the wisdom of the Coneys consist? he tells you in vers. 26. The Conies are a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks: though they be weak in themselves, yet they dwell in strong places. Wherein doth the wisdom of the Locusts appear? he tells you in ver. 27. The Locusts have no King, yet go they forth all of them by bands: though they be weak alone, yet they do join together, and so are strong. But wherein doth the wisdom of the Spider consist? he tells you in vers. 28. The Spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in Kings Chambers: though the chamber of a King, is most swept and cleansed, yet by the industry of her hands, she doth take hold on the beams thereof, and dwells on high out of danger. So that, although these creatures are weak and feeble in themselves, yet by their wisdom, their weakness is recompensed, and they save themselves from injury, and wrong, as well as if they were stronger. Now shall the Ant, Cony, Locust, and Spider be wise in their kind, and shall not a Christian be so? true saving Grace is the best wisdom, every Godly man, is a wise man; and though he be but weak in Grace, yet he hath true wisdom: the wisdom of the Ants, to provide in Summer against a rainy day: the wisdom of the Conyes, to build in the rock Christ: the wisdom of the Locusts, to join with others: and the wisdom of the spider, to take hold on those beams of the promises, which are in the chamber of our King Christ and if God have thus recompensed your weakness with this wisdom, why should you then complain?