Select thoughts, or, Choice helps for a pious spirit a century of divine breathings for a ravished soule, beholding the excellencies of her Lord Jesus / by J. Hall ...

XXVII

Which way, O Lord, which way can I look, and not see some sad examples of misery: One wants his limbs with Mephibosheth, ano∣ther his sight with Bartimeus, a third with Lazarus wants bread, and a whole skin; One is pained in his body, another plundred of his estate, a third troubled in minde; one is pined in prison, another tor∣tured on the rack, a third lan∣guisheth under the loss of a deare son, or wife or hus∣band; Who am I Lord, that, for the present, I enjoy an im∣munity from all these sor∣rows? I am sure none grones under them that hath deser∣ved them more: It is thy

mercy, thy meer mercy, O my good God, that any of these calamities have faln beside me; Oh make me truly thankful for thine infi∣nite goodness; and yet onely so sensible of thy gracious in∣dulgence this way; as that when any of these evils shall seize upon mee, I may be no more dejected in the sense of them, then I am now over-joyed with the favor of their forbearance.