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Fifthly. The Providences of God, and the Saints Experience, are another ¹Pasture for Christ's Sheep. How oft have they been fed this way? I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the Righteous forsaken, nor his Seed begging Bread. This was more especially David's Experience, and under that Dispensation, when the Promises of God were of temporal Blessings; ours under the Gospel are better: Or else take it thus, Not begging in vain. If they are such Children that walk in the Steps of their godly Parents, or not so begging as to be forsaken, it cannot intend any kind of asking, or begging; for David himself desired and received Relief from others. Nothing doth more clearly relieve and feed our Souls under ²Trouble and Distress, than those Experiences we have formerly had of God's special Providence and Goodness to us, or how he helped his People in their Extremities in the days of old. O my ³God, my Soul is cast down within me; therefore I will remember thee from the Land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the Hill Mizar. He would call to mind how God had helped him formerly, when pursued by Saul, or distressed by Absalom; and the way his drooping Spirits were revived. He that delivered me (saith he) ⁴from the Paw of the Bear, and Paw of the Lion, will deliver me from this uncircumcised Philistine. All Power is given into Christ's Hand, he is the great disposer of all things; therefore be sure he will order every thing for the Good of his Church. If not a Hair of our Heads shall fall without the Providence of God, we may conclude he will be concerned for us in greater Matters: And if he provide for Sparrows, he will provide and take care of his own Children.

1. 1The Providences of God, and the Saints Experiences, a Soulfatning Pasture. Psal. 37. 35.
2. 21 Sam. 21. 3