...Goods, knowing in your felves, that ye have in Heaven a better, and an enduring Subftance. 6 The Lord gave , and the Lord hath taken away; Blefied be the Name of the Lord. What? (hall we receive Good at the Hand of God, and (hall we not receive Evil ? * Altho' the Fig-tree...

...; but he looks up to GOD, the great governor and difpofer of all thefe Events ; " The LORD giveth, and the LORD hath " taken away, blefied be the name of the LORD." So David, Pfal. xxxix. 9. " I was dumb, and fpake " not a word, becaufe thou LORD didft it." Scf our...

...flower thereof fadeth away, but the word of the Lord endureth for ever, i Pet. i. 24, 25. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blefied be the name of the Lord. Job i. 21. BURIAL OF THE DEAD. When they come to the Grave, the Minlfter jhall IVlAN that is born of...

...hearts would be, " Here ami " I, let the Lard do unto me as feemeth u good unto him :" — " The Lord gave, and ** the Lord hath taken away, blefied be the " name of the Lord ?" Thefe conelulions appear fo reafonable, a-nd indeed fo moderate, that were it poffible' for us to...

...God, Job i. 12. and faid, " Naked carr.e 1 out of my mother's womb, and naked mall 1 return : the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blefied be the name of the Lord. In all this Job finned not, nor charged God foolifhly." Confider the patience of David, when he was...

...and who it is who hath appointed it, and with truly refigned, humble fouls to fay, "The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken away : Blefied be the name of the Lord." Lord help us to blefs thee, that thou hail indulged us fo long with fo eminent a man of God, and O,...

...wealth and children, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked fhall I return thither; the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away ; blefied be the name of the Lord. What ? fhall ,we receive good at the hand of God, and fhall we not receive evil ? Job i. 2.1. and ii....