Jeremiah 47

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XLVII.—God exactly foresees the miseries of the most strong and flourishing states. And the strongest holds are of no avail against the artillery of a threatening, an angry, God. He effectually reckons with the spiteful or treacherous enemies of his people at last; and, if he be against us, who can be for us? The more we trust to creatures for help, the more sad disappointment we shall meet with, in a time of need. You, great distress may make us even to forget we have our darling babies, or to wish they had never been born. But, notwithstanding the confusions of war, every strider is directed by the hand of God; and none can stop it till it has finished his work. — 9 B