5. In fear of wants. The power of the government of the world cannot
shew itself in its brightness. We have no reason to despond in great extremities, since he can think us into safety,—Ps. 40:17, 'Lord, think on me,'—much more look us into it; his thoughts and his eyes move together.
5. In fear of wants. The power of the government of the world cannot be doubted. His love, as little as it seems, since it hath moved him to prepare heaven to entertain his people at the end of their journey, it will not be wanting to provide accommodation for them upon the way, since all things, both good and bad, are at his beck, and under the government of his gracious wisdom. His eyes run to and fro through the whole earth, not only to defend them in dangers, but supply them in wants, for his strength is shewed both ways. Doth he providentially regard them that have no respect for him, and will he not employ his power for, and extend his care to them that adore and love him, and keep up his honour in the world? He will not surely be regardless of the afflictions of his creatures. His people are not only his creatures, but his new creatures; their bodies are not only created by him, but redeemed by his Son. The purchase of the Redeemer is joined to the providence of the Creator. If he take care of you when he might have damned you for your sins, will he not much more since you are believers in Christ? And he cannot damn you believing, unless he renounce his Son's mediation and his own promise. A natural man provides for his own, much more a righteous man: Pro.
13:22, 'A good man leaves an inheritance to his children,' much more the God of righteousness, a God who hath his eye always upon them.
His eye will affect his heart, and his heart spirit the hand of his power to relieve them. He hath 'prepared of his goodness for the poor,' Ps.
68:10.
6. It is comfort in the low estate of the church at any time. God's eye is upon his church even whilst he seems to have forsaken them. If he seem to be departed, it is but in some other part of the earth, to shew himself strong for them; wherever his eye is fixed in any part of the world, his church hath his heart, and his church's relief is his end.
Though the church may sometimes lie among the pots in a dirty