An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eleventh, twelfth, & thirteenth chapters of…

Oh! be not discouraged when you have gone out of ¹Gods way, but be troubled and ashamed, make use of this promise, the Lord sees the frowardness of his people, and yet will heal them, and lead them, and restore comfort to them.

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And my brethren, thus hath the Lord dealt graciously with us in our inconsiderate, foolish, sinful courses, ¹how often we in this Land have been brought low by our inconsiderate, foolish ways, we have been sore wounded, we have been in danger to bleed to death by the falls that we have got, we have often given all for gone as it were, mens ways have been so perverse and cross as there hath been little hope of any good, that sometimes when we have met together we have even said, all is gone, we are but betrayed, and therefore there is little hope of any good; Have not we oftentimes said thus? but the Lord hath come in and healed us, and that Scripture in Isa. 57. hath been made good unto us, the Lord hath beheld the frowardness of our ways, and yet hath healed us, and yet hath led us. You have gone one in such and ⟨p. 39⟩such ways saith God, and you have even undone your selves in them, and you were made but fools, and others squandered away your estates and nothing came of it; well, you knew not what to do, I'll lead you in ways that you do not think of, in such ways as you have the least hopes of good by, I will lead you on in those ways and restore comfort to you. My Brethren, the ways that the Lord hath this last Summer restored comfort to England by, were they ways that any of you did think of this time twelve month? Certainly it was never in the imaginations and thoughts of men to be brought in such ways as the Lord hath lead us in, and restored comforts