A Saint Indeed

These experiences are food for your Faith in a wilderness condition, Psal. 74. 14. By this David kept his hea•t in time of danger, I Sam. 17. 37. and Paul his, 2. Cor. 1. 10. It was sweetly answered by Silentiarius, when one told him, that his enemies way-laid him to take away his life, Si Deus mei curam non habet, quid vivo? if God take no care of me, how have I escaped hitherto? you may plead with God old experiences to procure new ones, for it is in pleading with God for new deliverances, as it is in pleading for new pardons. Now mark how Moses pleads on that account with God, Numb. 14. 19. Pardon I beseech thee the Iniquity ⟨p. 81⟩of this people, as thou hast forgiven them from Egypt until now. He doth not say as men do, Lord this is the first fault, thou hast not been troubled before to sign their pardon: but Lord, because thou hast pardoned them so often; I beseech thee pardon them once again. So in new straits, Lord thou hast often heard, helped and saved, in former fears, therefore now help again, for with thee there is plenteous redemption, and thine arm is not shortened.

These experiences are food for your Faith in a wilderness condition, Psal. 74. 14. By this David kept his hea•t in time of danger, I Sam. 17. 37. and Paul his, 2. Cor. 1. 10. It was sweetly answered by Silentiarius, when one told him, that his enemies way-laid him to take away his life, Si Deus mei curam non habet, quid vivo? if God take no care of me, how have I escaped hitherto? you may plead with God old experiences to procure new ones, for it is in pleading with God for new deliverances, as it is in pleading for new pardons. Now mark how Moses pleads on that account with God,