Durable riches. Two brief discourses, occasioned by the impoverishing blast of heaven, which the…

II. Whatever may be our Losses, Let ⟨p. 19⟩us not be too much Discouraged by those Losses, nor Loose our Spirits under them. Though your Daily Bread seem to be Failing of you, do not now Eat the Bread of Sorrows, but Sleep as quietly and as pleasantly as ever; for you may be still, The Beloved of God. O do not give way to sinking Dejections, or Despondings, and Overwhelming Melancholy; do not say, I now fear, I shall come to want before I Dye! Alas, That comes with a Fear. But hear the Voice of the Gracious God unto you;, which is, Fear not, I am with thee; and I will never Leave thee nor Forsake thee. 'Tis One Consolation for you, That God is Able to Retrieve all your Losses. When Amazaah once at one Clap, Lost unto the value of Thirty Seven Thousand Five Hundred Pound Sterling, in ready Money, he was very much concerned about his Loss. But it was then said unto him, in 2 Chron. 25.9. The Lord is Able to give thee much more than this. I pray, who first Gave all that you have now Lost? It was God; that God, whose is the Earth, and the Fullness thereof: And cannot that Omnipotent God, again, Give thee much more than this? Although Job had Lost All; yet after all it came to that, in Job 42.10. ⟨p. 20⟩The Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before. It may be Thus with you, though your Losses bring you to be, As poor as Job: I am sure, your Contentation would be a good Bottom for such an Expectation. 'Tis indeed often seen, that no persons are so unable to bear Losses, as those that once had nothing at all to Loose. They that start up from nothing to be Rich on the sudden, are usually most affrighted, and most repining, when petite Losses create in them a suspicion of Loosing more. But it would rather become them to argue so, The God that brought me to something out of nothing, may make me of Nothing, to become Something again, if it pleases Him. However, I have one more Consolation for you: 'Tis, That I hope God is not among your Losses. When David had Lost at once, all that he had been getting together for many years, 'tis said in 1 Sam. 30.6. He Encouraged Himself in the Lord his God. A blessed Cordial, to keep us from Fainting under our Losses! This is Lost, you say, and That is Lost: but in Gods Name, Is God Lost? He not you a God still to go unto, and live upon? There are some, who so read that place in