Sermons preached

The next Pattern we have is David, a Man after God's own Heart, in 2 Sam. 15. 25, 26. Behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him. What a meek submission was here to God's Pleasure? resigning up his Person, Crown and Estate, to the wise and gracious disposal of God; to receive a Benefit, or Punishment, as the Lord should determine. David sets his Name to a Blank, and bids God write what he pleaseth. It is hard for us to consent to known Articles, but David wholly referreth himself unto God, Let him do what seemeth good unto him.

The next Pattern we have is David, a Man after God's own Heart, in 2 Sam. 15. 25, 26. Behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him. What a meek submission was here to God's Pleasure? resigning up his Person, Crown and Estate, to the wise and gracious disposal of God; to receive a Benefit, or Punishment, as the Lord should determine. David sets his Name to a Blanck, and bids God write what he pleaseth. It is hard for us to consent to known Articles, but David wholly referreth himself unto God, Let him do what seemeth good unto him.

So Abraham the Father of the Faithful, how contentedly doth he speak? and he thought no other but that Isaac, the Son of the Promise, should be sacrificed, Gen. 22. 8. When his Son asked him, Where's the Burnt-Offering for Sacrifice? and he answered, My Son, the Lord will provide an Offering, and so they went on their way together. When God declareth his Will not only contrary to our natural Affection, but our gracious hopes; when he taketh away Instruments upon whose Life his Glory seems to depend, we have the same Answer, God will provide.