Jacobs seed or The generation of seekers. And Davids delight

This should appease your hearts, what though thou have not present audience for the thing thou seekest: yet think, I deal with a God that hath an understanding that I cannot search. God it may be lets the adversary prevail sometimes, I ⟨p. 42⟩cannot tell what glory God may get by it, I cannot conceive how God can bring his own glory about when Israel flees before the Philistines, But why sayest thou so O Jacob? there is no searching of Gods understanding, God sees further then thou canst see: that thing that thou thinkest will make against his name may make for it: therefore lay thine hand upon thine heart. He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might. God stays till men have no might, till they faint, and are ready to sail, and then he comes and helps them. That is the meaning of that Scripture in Luke, where Christ saith, God will avenge his elect that cry night and day to him, though he tarry, he will avenge them, he will hear their prayers: it is not in vain: But it follows upon it, notwithstanding when the Son of man comes shall he find faith on earth? I verily think that that want of faith, hath reference to that very promise specially, that God will hear his elect that cry: but God may stay so long, as that the very ⟨p. 43⟩time when God shall come to perform it, & shall intend to do it, it may be a time when their faith is overcome, and fails in the promise, that they begin to give over, and think they have sought in vain. And usually the time when God comes to fulfil his promise, and to answer the prayers of his people, it is that very time when they fail and are ready to sink. Therefore that may be another argument, it may be thou hast not believed this promise. Thou sayest thou hast prayed, and thou thinkest it is in vain: hast thou believed this promise in the text? hast thou relied on it? God hath not said to the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain.

This should appease your hearts, what though thou have not present audience for the thing thou seekest: yet think, I deal with a God that hath an understanding that I cannot search. God it may be lets the adversary prevail sometimes, I ⟨p. 42⟩cannot tell what glory God may get by it, I cannot conceive how God can bring his own glory about when Israel flees before the Philistines, But why sayest thou so O Jacob? there is no searching of Gods understanding, God sees further then thou canst see: that thing that thou thinkest will make against his name may make for it: therefore lay thine hand upon thine heart. He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might. God stayes till men have no might, till they faint, and are ready to sail, and then he comes and helpes them. That is the meaning of that Scripture in Luke, where Christ saith, God will avenge his elect that cry night and day to him, though he tarry, he will avenge them, he will hear their prayers: it is not in vain: But it follows upon it, notwithstanding when the Sonne of man comes shall he find faith on earrh? I verily think that that want of faith, hath reference to that very promise specially, that God will hear his elect that cry: but God may stay so long, as that the very