For she had heard in the Country of
Moab.
I suppose when any Messenger arrived in M••ab, out of the Land of Canaan, Nao∣mie
Two sermons the first, Comfort in calamitie, teaching to live well, the other, The grand assizes, minding to dye well / by Thomas Fuller ...
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- Two sermons the first, Comfort in calamitie, teaching to live well, the other, The grand assizes, minding to dye well / by Thomas Fuller ...
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- Fuller, Thomas, 1608-1661.
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- London :: Printed for G. and H. Eversden ...,
- 1654.
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- Christian life.
- Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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did presently repaire unto him, and load him with questions concerning the estate of her Country: How do the Iews my Country-men? How faireth it with the Bethlehemites my Neig••bours? with Boaz my Kinsman? What is the rate of Corne? What the price of Oyle? What the value of Wine? if there be no per∣formance for the present, what promise is there for the future? though things be bad now, what hope is there, but they will be better hereafter: Alas he an∣swers little; and from his silence and sorrowfull looks, Naomi gathers a denial; but as Elijah sending his servant towards the Sea, to see what ••igns there were of Raine,* 1.1 for six severall times together he returned this answer, There is nothing: but at the seventh time, he brought him the tydings of a Cloud rising out of the Sea; so though for nine years Naomi had no news but of want and scarcity; yet the tenth yeare there came a man (probably he was a good man that brought these good ty∣dings) who brought her word that the valleys began to laugh and sing with plen∣tie;
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and so though the hope that was de∣ferred was the fainting of the heart, yet when it came, it was the Tree of life. Per∣chance because the coveto••s Jews had made nine parts great for their own pro∣fit, and the tenth small to cozen God of his portion: God quite contrary, gave them nine years of scarcity and want, and at length made the tenth of store and plenty.
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1 King. 18. 43.