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Show Chri.ft look.pth in at tbe Windowr. hrokt in pims the Lords people and aJJIWtd /Jis htritag•; thry jler. the ..,id,,w 4Hd the ftranger,and murtbmd tbe f•therlefi; yet they [aid tbeLord(h"U not[<t, nritberfhaUthe God of]acab rcgartlit. The ·Pfalmill calls them for this Brutilh fools, and confutes them from Gods efficiency; he tbat planted the ear fhaU he not htar) As there- · fore Hmnah ~n her fong fpake to her enemies: So let me fpeak to all, chat have any thing of that root of bitternefs in tbem; 'fall{ no more fo rxcredi~tg pr.JHdly,lrt ltot arrogancy come OHt of your moutb : For tbe Lord is a Goa of k.,nowledg, and by bim oOiolts are weiglml. •0 do not do any thirg prefuming that God feeth not, or regardeth n<Jt; you will fir.d one day that God is a God ofKnowledg, and rhac all your afrions are weighed by him; he may for a time, throw his Children ( Jil<t H•g•r) under a lhrub ; or leave his Spoufe (~s Mo[<s) was left in a thin ark ofBulrulhes, ready ro be walhcd away with every wav<, but he will be where he can have an eye upon them ; he will fee what becomes of them. God had his Chtnches in A(ra, for their Sins he left his houfc. The T~<r~ hath broken in and.made havock for very many'years; but Chritl hath all chis whik been looking in at the windows.Chrifl had his •Spoufe in Bohemi4,in Germahy,in many other places for their Sins. The Popifh party haih broken in, llain his Scrva.nts, abufed his Children, hath not the Lord fcen it ? yes,he hath feen the mifchief and he will require it, There is not a Saint that hath been impri. fQncd or died; but the Lord harh feen it, and rhe time will come, when God will let them know that he was looking in at che windows of their prifons, and inquifi rions, &c. God Ide his people here in Queen Mariu rime, and they fulfercd many hard things; but CluiH was all t~e while looking in at the-window, and it was but a little time btfore God let them know that he was looking on their mifchief to requite it. Let therefore every one heu and fear and cake heed what they do in Gods houfe, i. •· to a people fearing and feni ng God, rhough they fee God bath forfak.!rt them. It was but an ind ifcreet palfage ofDavids enemies, when they faid, God batbforfaktn him, perf'ciiiC a>1d tak.! bim, /or their is noltt t• ddivtr hlm, Pfal. 7 I . 1 I. Thofe that are politick in the world will teach you ; How ugry fo rvtr you fie a Father or Mother to 1>t with a Child; ytt to tak.! bttd how Y'" u[< the Child, what yoH f ay of it or do to it; becaufe they are in fuch a root of Natural alfefrion in Parents to Children, that though they may be in a prefellt pallion, yet their love will return to their Child, and th~y will then be an- .llry What ufi ~efot1Nld , &c. 'gry with you for ~hat you h~ve fpoken ofhim,.o( whezein you have dealt hardly With h1rn. t dare warrant it a good r~Je i,n this cafe. You may pofiibly r~ad in Gods providenccs that he hath a controverfy with his people, and is very angry whh them ; but yet even _then take. h~ed, what you fay of them, what you do unto them: For there IS In the heart ofChrill, a radicatcd love to· his Spoufe, his anser to Z ion will pafs over, and he will then punifh tbe{foutiJtart_oj'AJ!yrta, If. I O ,I 2. you lhall obfervein the P<O• phets, that there was no N~tion.tha t God ufcd to affi iCl the ] nps; but the fame ~rophets, that Propfielied of the 1ewifh AffiiCli-on by them, d1d alfo by and by Prophely their ruine, '. But fec~ndly,_ Let chis be ~ ca"tion •lfo fo the prople of God; 2 , BraJich That they 10 thetr defP.o~d enc1cs ~o not B)afpheme God, and fay. the Lord feeth uot ; n IS that lO which we are very prone. ifhe Prophet chfdech the Jews for it, I{. 40. v. 27. Wbj,j'aytft tkou Q Jacob, aHd fpeaktft tho11, 0 1/rael, my "'V' is hid from the L.;.q ~ There is no child of God but deliberately mull know, and fay and. confe~, chat ch_e _J:.ord leech, and knoweth him, and ~nowech hiS> fia,te, and conditio~: But as David fpakc that in hatle, whirb he knew was oche~wtfe i fotbe children of God are ready in batle t<li • fa~, the Lord rec;th not, and they are fubjed: to temptations to. thmk God fe~t~ not, or that the Almighty doth not regard,it111 but Ah Chnlhans ! Lt:t not fuch a !hought enter into youQ hearts, God may win~ at your fulferings, qut b~ feeth. fh~m, he . may fia~d •.far olf, bur h1~ eyes, run to and fro, jbeholding mi!i:hief to requite tt, and beholdmg you to deliver you in his own Seafan. h r. . 1 ' .. 11,, ' II In t e aecond p~ace, 'Ibis notion is of f?t41 C?llctrHmeHI '• thf , ptoplf of Go~ for tbtir _confol4tion: The great argume~.t to ~omfort: 2 • Vfo. fuch ~s. are m a fulfenng fiate, mufi be from the hopes of a better condition .lhortly., No;w this m~y ealily b~ concluded from thisr · c~n~derallon that Cl;rift look.:f in 4t tht "'indo,.., i. e. exadl)'lancL ddl~ndly knows, ~nd c~rioully «;lbfeneth the llate.and condition ofhts people; wh1ch wtll appear to you if yoy confider. . , , I, Th."t he that looks in at the window is full ofpitya111ltmtfer compaffion ; he doth not look upon the miferies of his people (as · a Z<!tro orfome other monfier,) to Triumph in ~nd over thc:n or tq m~ulilt upo~ them,.; rto, he ..,;~have comp,affio>f tJtcordiHg 16. 'tbt ~Lam; ;2,33. m11ltzt,u e ofbrt mmru: For be doth not,aJJiill ..,il/ingly nor gruue the cbrldrtn of mm, James 5• I I. 'Ihe Lord it very pitif,.J, and •f H h great |