To depend upon Gods All-sufficiency in time of trouble. [ 1999]
ABraham considering that God ws El Shaddai, a God of All-sufficiency did assure himself,* 1.1 that although Sarah's womb was dead, yet God. was not dead, but was as able to raise him a living son out of her dead womb, as he is to raise out dead bodies out of the senselesse Earth: So Moses, when he had six hundred thousand People and upward to provide for in a sandy desart, which yielded them neither bread nor water,* 1.2 considering the power of God, did believe, that he could bring drink out of the Rock, as out of a River; and meat out of the clouds, as out of a Cubbard: So Ionathan, when he went against the Philistins that were thousands,* 1.3 had this resolution for his encourage∣ment, That God could deliver with few, as well as with many: And so Asa went as far as he, when he had a huge Army of Ethiopians consisting of thou∣sand thousands, besides three hundred Chariots, (the greatest Army that ever was read of) come against him, he cryed unto the Lord his God, and said; Lord,* 1.4 it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power, &c. And so it is, that every Man should depend upon his God, who can help with few Friends, or no Friends, with small means or no means, as well as if he had all the means, or all the Friends in the World; And there∣fore let no Man be dismay'd in the time of Affliction, nor faint in the hour of