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proper notion of Providence, which is nothing else but the performance of God's gracious purposes and promises to His people.
A wicked man when his heart is fully set in him, and his will stands in a full bent of resolution, will certainly, if he has power in his hand and opportunity to execute his conceived mischief, give it vent, and perpetrate the wicked devices of his heart.
'The eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect towards him' (2 Chronicles 16:9).
He wrote them all in His book, or painted your body according to that exact model which He drew of you in His own gracious purpose before you had a being.
God has provided for you, and given the poorest among us far better accommodations of life than the greatest among them are ordinarily provided with.
O what Providence has done for you!
Not what you planned, but what a higher counsel than yours determined is come to pass.
Walk together as co-heirs of the grace of life; study to be mutual blessings to each other; so walk in your relations that the parting day may be sweet.
to record the ways of Providence, from first to last, throughout your whole course to this day, that you may see what a God He has been to you.
Did God abandon and cast you off in the day of trouble? Certainly you must belie your own experience if you should say so. It is true, there have been some plunges and difficulties you have met with, in which you could see no way of escape, but concluded you must perish in them. There have been difficulties that have staggered your faith in the promises, and made you doubt whether the fountain of all-sufficiency would let out itself for your relief; yea, such difficulties as have provoked you to murmuring and impatience, and thereby provoked the Lord to forsake you in your trouble; but yet you
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When one comfort is cut off and removed, another is raised up in its room.
there is no season wherein spiritual joy
He would never give you so much of the world to lose your hearts in the love of it, or so little to distract you with the care of it.
the delay of your mercies is really for your advantage.
it is a greater mercy to have a heart willing to refer all to God and be at His disposal than to enjoy immediately the mercy we are most eager and impatient for.
expected mercies are never nearer than when the hearts and hopes of God's people are lowest.
When we look for increasing darkness, light arises.
Wait and observe, and you shall assuredly find that promise (Romans 8:28) working out its way through all providences.
As unworthy as I am, God has been good to me notwithstanding. His mercy appeared first to me when I was worse than I am now, both in condition and disposition;
Get the true fear of God upon your hearts. Be really afraid of offending Him.
Study the Word more, and the concerns and interests of the world less.
It is our duty therefore and our wisdom to distinguish seasons, and know the proper duties of every season; and Providence is an index that points them out to us.
