look not first to them for Succour and Supply, but first go to the Promise, that it may supply what you need, and that the Promise may bless what Means you have. It is an uncomfor∣table and disorderly Course, for a Man barely and firstly to look at those Things which are within the Compass of Sense, and so range up and down in the Use of the Means, when the Promise and CHRIST are the last Tho't of in our Hearts. As for Instance: In a Time of Poverty, how doth the Soul unfit it self for the Promise? When a Man sees his Estate low, and he is like to come to Misery, he saith, I have some good Friends that will not see me Want, I have so much Means left yet, and I have my Health and Strength, and I hope to get a poor Living. Not one Word all this while of a Promise: But what say you to this? If Death take away all thy Friends, Sickness take away thy Health and Strength, Fire or Thieves take away all thy Goods, whither wilt thou now go? Why then at a dead Lift, as we commonly say, he is fain to go to that Mercy which endureth for ever. Oh Friend, are you there now? Why came you not thither at first? Well, since thou art come, reason thus: I am like to be poor, and my Friends may die, and Thieves may rob me of all my Goods, but the Mercy of the Lord endureth for ever. So a Minister that is faithful, desires to preach 0