Mirabilia Dei. An essay on the very seasonable & remarkable interpositions of the divine…

Secondly; The People of GOD in Particular Persons; These also have all along seen the Seasonable Interpositions of His Providence, when Distresses have grown Extreme upon them. Call now, if there be any that will not answer thee, and will not say, I was brought Low, and then my GOD helped me! Unto which of the Saints wilt thou turn, and not find them still saying, When I was brought very Low, then the Tender Mercies of my GOD speedily prevented me! All the Cases of the Hundred and Seventh PSALM, are still renewed with Believers; in every Generation. Who is there to be found among the People of GOD, but what may have the Report of the Hundred and Seventh PSALM given of them; Their Soul sainted in them; They fell down and there was none to help; They drew near to the Gates of Death; Their Soul was melted be ause of Trouble, and they were at their Wits End. But THEN! They Cry unto the Lord in their Trouble; and He brings them out of their Distresses. How frequent ⟨p. 12⟩a Spectacle This! A Tragedy carried on to an Extremity; And then, GOD on a sudden, makes a Descent from the Machine of Heaven, and all goes off more comfortably than any one could have dreamed of! Our Father Noah, in the Darkness, & the vast Labour and Fatigue of the Ark; Doubtless he was even spent, with waiting for on Outgate. Anon, GOD Remembers him, and fetches him out of his Melancholy Coffin. Was not Sarah, thrown into the Jaws of a Wild-beast, who was just ready to bring an Endless confusion upon her? GOD then steps in and says to the Raptor, Thou art a Dead Man, if thy prey be not presently delivered up! Jacob, can see nothing else, but his Brother Esau just upon the very Point of doing upon him, all that the Hound can do; to the Deer that he comes up withal. But THEN,—Lo, GOD steps in, to change the Heart of the Beast, and bring him to Fawning on him, instead of Biting of him. No doubt Joseph reckoned himself shut up in a Perpetual Prison, when an Ungrateful and Forgetful Butler, left him there, and his Feet were hurt with Festers. But NOW is the Time, that the Word of the Lord Purges him; The Revelation which GOD made unto him, Vindicates him, Advances him, and he becomes the Ruler of a Mighty Nation. The Rescues of David, how often were these, ⟨p. 13⟩When the poor Partridge on the Mountains, was just upon the very Point of being Seized by the Talons of the Vulture!

Secondly; The People of GOD in Particular Persons; These also have all along seen the Seasonable Interpositions of His Providence, when Distresses have grown Extreme upon them. Call now, if there be any that will not answer thee, and will not say, I was brought Low, and then my GOD helped me! Unto which of the Saints wilt thou turn, and not find them still saying, When I was brought very Low, then the Tender Mercies of my GOD speedily prevented me! All the Cases of the Hundred and Seventh PSALM, are still renewed with Believers; in every Generation. Who is there to be found among the People of GOD, but what may have the Report of the Hundred and Seventh PSALM given of them; Their Soul sainted in them; They fell down and there was none to help; They drew near to the Gates of Death; Their Soul was melted be ause of Trouble, and they were at their Wits End. But THEN! They Cry unto the Lord in their Trouble; and He brings them out of their Distresses. How frequent