Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence

These delays both upon spiritual and temporal accounts are frequent, and when they befa••us, we are too apt to interpret them as denials and fall into a sinful despondency of mind, though• ⟨p. 157⟩there be no cause at all for it, Psal. 31. 12. Lam. 3. 8. 44. It is not always that the returns of prayer are dispatched to us in the same hour they are asked of God; yet sometimes it falls out so, Isa. 65. 24. Dan. 9. 23. But though the Lord means to perform to us the mercies we desire▪ yet he will ordinarily exercise our patience to wait for them; and that for these reasons.

These delayes both upon spiritual and tempo•ral accounts are frequent, and when they befa••us, we are too apt to interpret them as denyals and fall into a sinful despondency of mind, though• ⟨p. 157⟩there be no cause at all for it, Psal. 31. 12. Lam. 3. 8. 44. It is not alwayes that the returns of prayer are dispatcht to us in the same hour they are asked of God; yet sometimes it falls out so, Isa. 65. 24. Dan. 9. 23. But though the Lord means to perform to us the mercies we desire▪ yet he will ordinarily exercise our patience to wait for them; and that for these reasons.