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 any danger, when we are ſtraitly beſet and hardly laid too, and ſee no means of deliverance or eſcape, let us learn then to depend on God’s all-ſufficiency. Had we a ſtrong guard of ſoldiers about us, we should not fear the enemy to break in upon us: Alas! did not God make these soldiers and the world out of nothing? and doth he need their help to deliver us? Theſe ought to teach us not to neglect the means that God hath given for our good, but thankfully to uſe them: This ought to teach us to fear God and not man, whose breath is in his noſtrils. The Lord gives us wiſdom to fear him, that can raiſe fears and terrors in our hearts, that can ſet thy affrighted conſcience againſt thee, and can bring more miſery out of thy own boſom than all the world beſides. ’Tis more dangerous to have God againſt us, than all the men in the world.

From hence we learn, that all the riches in the world cometh out of the treaſure of God’s all-ſufficiency, therefore, if thou wouldſt be rich, get God to be thy portion; know this, that all the riches in the world are nothing