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phor. And still whenever the sun of persecution, 

 or other calamity* ariseth upon us with burning 

 heat, God can exempt whom he thinks good, and 

 send them times of refreshing from the presence 

 of the Lord : so that, while the world is all on fire 

 about them, they journey through that torrid 

 zone, with their mighty parasol, or umbrella over 

 their heads, and are all the while in the shade. 



And yet every shade is not a safe protection. 

 Umbra aut 7iutrLv, aut noverca esty saith Pliny :'|' 

 and all the naturalists tell us, that the shadow of 

 some trees is unwholesome; of others deadly. 

 Aye, there is a shadow of death too in Scripture 

 language ; and you have heard of the shades of 

 hell itself. And therefore, to distinguish this be- 

 nign and saving protection from those black and 

 dismal shades, here is yet a further and a higher 

 emphasis ; 



3. It is, in the third place, iimbi^a alarum, a 

 shadow of wings : an expression borrowed from 

 birds and fowls, that brood, and foster their young- 

 ones under them. The wing of the dam is both 

 the midwife and the nurse ; it brings forth the 

 chickens, and it brings them up too. So Provi- 

 dence is both the womb that bare us, and the 

 paps that give us suck. The wing is not only, as 

 the shade, a protection from the heat, but a more 

 universal defence against all the injuries, and in- 

 clemencies of the air. Is it too hot ? the wing 



* Jac. i. 11. t L- !/'• c- 12. 



