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Answ. I answer, flee thou to the promise against that also, as where it is said, Though hand join in hand, &c. Though men join ¹themselves together, and strike hands, even with the devil against Gods children, yet shall they not overcome them.

Answ. I answere, flee thou to the promise against that also, as where it is said, Though hand joyne in hand, &c. Though men joyne ¹themselves together, and strike hands, even with the devill against Gods children, yet shall they not overcome them.

1. 1Pro. 11. 21.

Object. But alas saith a poor soul, I am in present want of outward comfort, and how should I be comfortable in such a condition.

Object. But alas saith a poore soule, I am in present want of outward comfort, and how should I be comfortable in such a condition.

Answ. I answer, It may be God dealeth with thee in this, as a mother with her children, who takes away the victuals from the children for a while, and puts it into the cupboard, but afterward she giveth it them again. So sometimes God taketh away these outward things, and locketh them up for a while in the cupboard, which is in the promise, and when he seeth it best for us, he giveth it to us again: and thus he did with Job, He took away all his outward