Though perhaps this that you now say is something, yet it makes not the text void. Remember what hath been before: heretofore you have sought God, and God had answered your seekings, remember the times of old, let that for the present a little stay you. It was that that stayed the Psalmist, he began to reason as you do, that he had sought God without answer, Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? &c. Psalm, 7, 8. here seems to be as much unbelief as in your reasoning, but mark what follows, v. 10. And I said this is my death: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most high. O, it is my sin, and weakness that I should reason thus, I consider not what to do when I reason thus: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most high, vers. 11. I will remember the works ⟨p. 229⟩of the Lord: sure•y I will remember the wonders of old. v. 12. I will meditate also of all thy works, and talk of thy doings. Thy way O God is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? Thou art the God that doest wonders, thou hast declared thy strength among the people, v. 14. Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph, v. 15 Mark, at length he recovers himself with this, though present things seem to go hard, yet he remembered what God had done; so do thou in this case. In this book of Isaiah, you have a complaint of unbelieving hearts, as if God had been sought in vain. Isa 40.27. Why sayest thou O Jacob, and speakest O Israel, my way is hid from the Lord, and my judgement is passed over from my God. Art thou one of the seed of Jacob, and hast sought God and sayest, thou hast had no answer? God reasons the case, and will confute their unbelief. Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the ⟨p. 230⟩creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint, & to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. v. 28, 29, 30, 31. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as Eagles; they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk & not faint. Hath not God done great things heretofore, in 88.
Though perhaps this that you now say is something, yet it makes not the text void. Remember what hath been before: heretofore you have sought God, and God had answered your seekings, remember the times of old, let that for the present a little stay you. It was that that stayed the Psalmist, he began to reason as you do, that he had sought God without answer, Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? &c. Psalm, 7, 8. here seems to be as much unbelief as in your reasoning, but mark what follows, v. 10. And I said this is my death: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most high. O, it is my sinne, and weaknesse that I should reason thus, I consider not what to do when I reason thus: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most high, vers. 11. I will remember the works ⟨p. 229⟩of the Lord: sure•y I will remember the wonders of old. v. 12. I will meditate also of all thy works, and talk of thy doings. Thy way O God is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? Thou art the God that doest wonders, thou hast declared thy strength among the people, v. 14. Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Iacob and Ioseph, v. 15 Mark, at length he recovers himself with this, though present things seem to go hard, yet he remembred what God had done; so do thou in this case. In this book of Isaiah, you have a complaint of unbelieving hearts, as if God had been sought in vain. Isa 40.27. Why sayest thou O Iacob, and speakest O Israel, my way is hid from the Lord, and my judgement is passed over from my God. Art thou one of the seed of Iacob, and hast sought God and sayest, thou hast had no answer? God reasons the case, and will confute their unbelief. Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the ⟨p. 230⟩creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint, & to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. v. 28, 29, 30, 31. But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as Eagles; they shall run and not be weary and they shall walk & not faint. Hath not God done great things heretofore, in 88.
