Sixtyfour Practical Sermons Author:Daniel Wilcox Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: [38] SERMON III. Psalm XXIV. 10. r—-—But they 'that feek the not want any good thing. THE belief of God's taking a fpecial care in his providence ... more »to fupply the wants of good men, conduceth highly to the comfort of fuch in their walking with him : and that they have ground for fuch a faith, it is evident from the words of the text. Doct. God 'will fo provide for thofe that fin- Cfrely feek kirn, that they jhall not ivant any thing that be their heavenly Father knows to be good for them. And what more reviving news can be heard amidft the /traits to which they are often reduced ? That therefore we may apply comfort to whom comfort is due, I fnall I. Lay down the characters of the perfons here ipoken of, They that feek the Lord. II. Open the endearing promife made to fuch, viz. That they [hall not want any good thing. III. Shew by what this promife is to be mea- fured. ' - IV. TheIV. The grounds from whence its certain ac- complifhment may be inferred. I. Let us lay down the character of the per- fons here fpoken of, They that /eek the Lord: In general they that do this, are fuch as are born of God : and fo feek him, 1. As one in wh'ofe favour their life.is bodnt£ up. This is the fenfe of foul in which they are breathing after him. PJ. Ixxiii. 25. Jf'hom have 1 in heaven but fkee, and there is none nptin earth that 1 defire bcf.des thee. Without God! I cannot but be miferable, whatever elfe 1 ett-r joy : in him I have enough to my compleat felicity, though ftripped of all things elfe. 1 en-' Vy not their happinefs who canJ fary of crdwnsj and kingdoms, they are mine ; while I can look fo heaven, and fay of him that has his throne there, He is mine. Nothing fhort of him caft fatisiy ;' arid befides him, f can' need rid tnore, 2. They tha...« less