Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence

But more particularly, let us bring it home to our own experience. It may be, we find our selves sometimes assaulted with Atheistical thoughts: we are tempted to think God hath left all things below to the course and sway of nature, that our prayers reach him not, as it is Lam. 3. 44. that he regards not what evils befall us. But, tell me Saints, have you not enough at hand to stop the mouths of all such temptations? O do but reflect upon your own Experiences, and solemnly ask your own hearts,

(1.) Have you never seen the All-sufficient God in the provisions he hath made for you and yours, throughout all the way that you have gone! Who was it that supplied to you whatever was needful in all your straits? Was it not ⟨p. 177⟩the Lord? 'Tis he that hath given bread to them that fear him, and hath been ever mindful of his Covenant, Psal. 111. 5. O do but consider the constancy, seasonableness, and at sometimes the extraordinariness of these provisions, and how they have been given in upon prayer, and shut your eyes if you can, against the convincing evidence of that great truth, Job 36. 7. He withdraweth not his eye from the Righteous.

(1.) Have you never seen the All-sufficient God in the provisions he hath made for you and yours, throughout all the way that you have gone! Who was it that supplyed to you whatever was needful in all your straits? Was it not ⟨p. 177⟩the Lord? 'Tis he that hath given bread to them that fear him, and hath been ever mindful of his Covenant, Psal. 111. 5. O do but consider the constancy, seasonableness, and at sometimes the extraordinariness of these provisions, and how they have been given in upon prayer, and shut your eyes if you can, against the convincing evidence of that great truth,