An exposition with practical observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of…

Thus such as he are described (Psal. 59.14, 15.) At evening let them return, and let them make a noise, like a Dog, and go round about the City: Let them wander up and down for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied: A good man may want meat, but he doth not grudge. He that waits upon God, and believes, shall be satisfied, though not filled.

Thus such as he are described (Psal. 59.14, 15.) At evening let them returne, and let them make a noyse, like a Dog, and goe round about the City: Let them wander up and downe for meat, and grudge if they be not satisfied: A good man may want meat, but he doth not grudge. He that waites upon God, and beleeves, shall be satisfied, though not filled.

Again, 'tis prophesied of wicked men (Isa. 8.21.) They shall pass through it hardly bestead and hungry, and it shall come to pass, when they shall be hungry, that they shall fret themselves, and curse their King and their God, and look upward: When an unbeliever hath nothing to eat, he eats himself. His own fretting wastes him more then his hunger. He then looks upward, not as submitting himself to God in his hunger, not as depending upon God, for the satisfying of his hunger: In which sense it is said (Psal. 145.15, 16.) The eyes of all wait upon thee, or (as we put in the Margin) look unto thee, and thou givest them their meat in due season, thou openest thine hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. A wicked man cannot look upward, thus, when he is hungry, he cannot look up and pray, he cannot look up and trust in God; but he looks upward to curse the God of Heaven in his heart, if not with his tongue; he looks upward, because he is vexed with all that is done below; he looks upward, not because he hath any pleasant sights in Heaven,¹