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Servants fhall feek unto Him in

vain, he will raife the

heal the Sick, arreft the

of the Heavenly Bodies,

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Dead, Courfe xxxviii.

Isa.

5.

bring Josh,

x. 12.

Water from the Rock, cleanfe Exod.

the Leper, forbid Rain to

stop the Mouths of Lions,

vent Fire from burning,

from drowning, bid the

xvii. 6.

2 Kings

v. 14.
1 Kings

fall,

pre-xvii.

Dan. vi.

Water

22.

iii. 25.

Earth

Josh.

Air

open her Mouth, and the

iii. 16. Numb. xvi. 31. 2 Sam.

to found amid the Mulberry v. 24. Trees to the Discomfiture of

an Hoft of Enemies.

Therefore, feeing we have fuch Encouragements to make known our Requefts unto Him under every imaginable Variety of Danger, Difficulty, and Trouble,

John xiv. 13.

Trouble, let us humbly but hopefully refort unto Him at all Times for Help appropriate to our Need, leaving the Method and Season thereof to His Wifdom and Goodness, and not doubting but that He will hear us, if we make our Petitions faithfully in the Name of His dear Son.

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DYING Minister, hearing one of his Sons express to him his Regret that he should have had fo painful a Night, replied to him with this fingle Word,

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And furely, Pain gone is Pain none, unless we make it fuch

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to Ourselves by ftupidly recalling it.

Do we hear the Wind that blew laft Night, or the Rain that pattered against our Window? Can we hear the Song of last Spring's Birds, or fmell laft Summer's Flowers? Where are laft Month's gay Sunfets fled? Where the Baby Laughter and Tears of Yesterday ? Has the Taste of October's Fruit, nay, of Yesterday's bitter Medicine, furvived? None of thefe Things are immortal, nor was my last Hour's Pain. It is gone, it is

dead; I will not think about it. Now I am at ease, and that Pain

is

is fcratched off the Score; I have nothing to do with it but to be glad and grateful to have feen it die, knowing it to have no Principle of Resurrection.

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