Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London

Thereby also you shall have more of the world, have it in more abundance, by using the world as if you used it not, you shall be no loser: I have sometimes stood and wondered at Abraham; for we say, that the rolling stone gathers no Moss. Abraham went out of his own Country; God commands him in Gen. 12. to forsake his Kindred, and his Fathers house: So Abraham departed, v. 4. and Abraham came, and they went out to go into the Land of Canaan, and into the Land of Canaan they came, v. 5. And at v. 10. There was a famine in the Land, and Abraham went down into Egypt. A famine in the Land! why, but did not God call him thither? yes, Go unto a Land that I shall show thee, v. 1. God showed him thither, yet there he met with a famine.

Thereby also you shall have more of the world, have it in more abundance, by using the world as if you us'd it not, you shall be no loser: I have sometimes stood and wondred at Abraham; for we say, that the rouling stone gathers no Moss. Abraham went out of his own Country; God commands him in Gen. 12. to forsake his Kindred, and his Fathers house: So Abraham departed, v. 4. and Abraham came, and they went out to go into the Land of Canaan, and into the Land of Canaan they came, v. 5. And at v. 10. There was a famine in the Land, and Abraham went down into Egypt. A famine in the Land! why, but did not God call him thither? yes, Go unto a Land that I shall shew thee, v. 1. God shewed him thither, yet there he met with a famine.

Obs. So one may have a clear call from God, and yet meet with a great deal of afflictions in the way that God calls them to; he goes down to Egypt to sojourn there: When he came into Egypt, the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues, because of Sarah Abraham's Wife. At v. 18. And Pharaoh called Abraham, and said, what is this? now therefore behold thy Wife, take her, and go thy way: And they sent him away, and his Wife, and all that he had, ver. 10. Well, away they go; And Abraham went out of Egypt, he, and his Wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South, v. 2. And Abraham was very rich in Cattle, in silver, and in gold: A strange thing, to grow rich in Cattle: How could he drive his Cattle