The saints delight. To which is annexed a treatise of meditation

2. Hath not God prevented many dangers, hath he not kept watch and ward about you? 1. What temporal ⟨p. 149⟩dangers hath God screened off? Thy neighbours house on fire^*, and it hath not kindled in thy dwellings. Another infected, thou art free; Behold the golden feathers of protection covering thee. 2. What spiritual dangers hath God prevented? when others have been poisoned with error, thou hast been preserved. God hath sounded a retreat to thee; thou hast heard a voice behind thee, saying, this is the way, walk in it^*; When thou hast listed thy self, and taken pay on the devils side, that God should pluck thee as a brand out of the fire, that he should turn thy heart, and now thou espousest Christs quarrel against sin. Behold preventing grace! here's an experience to meditate upon.

2. Hath not God prevented many dangers, hath he not kept watch and ward about you? 1. What temporal ⟨p. 149⟩dangers hath God screen'd off? Thy neighbours house on fire^*, and it hath not kindled in thy dwellings. Another infected, thou art free; Behold the golden feathers of protection covering thee. 2. What spiritual dangers hath God prevented? when others have been poyson'd with errour, thou hast been preserved. God hath sounded a retreat to thee; thou hast heard a voice behinde thee, saying, this is the way, walk in it^*; When thou hast listed thy self, and taken pay on the devils side, that God should pluck thee as a brand out of the fire, that he should turne thy heart, and now thou espousest Christs quarrel against sinne. Behold preventing grace! here's an experience to meditate upon.

1. *Paries cum pr•ximus ardet. Virg.