Burnings bewailed

Consider 2. If you belong to God, He has given you, and will give you that which is better than any thing which He has taken from you: Has He taken your House from you? But there is an infinitely better House which shall never be taken from you; As ⟨p. 18⟩House▪ Eternal in the Heavens. Are your Goods, is your Household Furniture Consumed? There is a better& more enduring Substance in Heaven: You have an Everlasting Covenant to live upon, which is ordered in all things well. You have God to be your Portion, and then you have enough, if you have nothing else. It was Davids comfort when Ziklag was burnt, and all his Substance fallen in the hands of the Amalekites, 1 Sam. 30. 6. David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. When his Estate was clear gone, and (which was a worse Calamity) all his Friends forsook him, his comfort was, that still he had a Faithful and an All-sufficient God to depend upon, and therefore notwithstanding all his Losses, he had Infinite Riches still. It has been reported, that when there was a Civil War, Soldiers coming into an House, took away what they pleased; The Mistress of the House being a pious Woman, when they laid their hands on several choice things, would say, I have God still to provide for me; and so did she often say: at last they took away something that her heart was too much set upon, which when she observed, she fell into Tears: She had a little Child who remembered what her Mother had often expressed; and said, Mother, why do you Cry▪ Is your ⟨p. 19⟩God gone now, have these Plunderers taken your God away? Which words of the little Infant made the Mother recollect her self, & bear her Losses cheerfully. Shall I say to you, that if you are true Believers on Christ, you have lost nothing: Because of the Infinite Good which you still have, and shall have for ever, you have lost nothing. A Godly man may stand on the Ruins of the whole world and say, I have lost nothing: You have all things in having Christ: He is All and in all that do believe. What is the Believers Jointure? The Apostle tells us what it is, 1 Cor. 3. 21. All things are yours, you are Christs, and Christ is Gods: Therefore never fear wanting as long as you are in this world. If God has given you Christ, you may be sure that He will not with hold any thing from you, which shall be good for you to enjoy,