A treatise of the divine promises in five bookes : in the first, a generall description of their nature, kinds, excellency, right use, properties, and the persons to whom they belong : in the foure last, a declaration of the covenant it selfe .../ by Edvvard Legh ...

6. Food and raiment.

GOD hath promised to give his children food unto con∣tent.

Yee shall eate in plenty and be satisfied, and praise the Name of the LORD, Joel 2.26.

Trust in the LORD, and doe good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed, Psal. 37.3.

He giveth meate unto them that feare him, Psal. 111.5.

He will satisfie the poore with bread, Psal. 102.15.

He loveth the stranger in giving him food and raiment, Deut. 10.18.

To such as want meate, drinke, or apparell, CHRIST saith, Matth. 6.25. Is not the life more then meate, and the body then raiment? It is an argument (as we say) à maiori a••minus, from the greater to the lesser.

The LORD which gave the life it selfe, will not suffer us to

want those things that apper∣taine to the sustaining of the same, and ver. 32. Your heaven∣ly Father (saith hee) knoweth that yee have neede of these things, that is, foode and raiment. A man may know our wants, and yet say as it is, Iames 2.16. ano∣ther may desire to supply our wants, and yet not know them; but GOD 1. Knowes our wants: 2. Will supply them, for hee is a Father: 3. Can sup∣ply them, for he is a heavenly Father.