1 3^ JnESSAY^&c. Chap. 3. 



Ng\v^ like a healing Balm, dijlilling Rains 

 Cement th Earth's Wounds^ and cure the gaping 



[^Plains : 

 With all their fibrojc6 Mouths the Plants &Trees 

 Drink their fweetjuices^& their Thirjt appeafe: 

 The rifing Sap thrufts forth her tender Bud, 

 And crowns mth verdant Honours all the Wood. 



And fucli did God Almighty efteem the 

 Benefit of it to us, that he made it one of the 

 Covenants of our Obedience 5 If ( fays he. 

 Lev. xxvi. 4. ) ye walk in viy Statutes, and 

 keep my Com?nandments, and do them ^ then I 

 vcill give you Rain in duefeafon, and the Lands 

 pall yield her encreafe, and the Trees of the 

 Field pall yield their Fruit, and your Thrafiing 

 fjall be unto the Vintage, and the Vintage fiall 

 reach unto the Sowing-time, andye fiall eat 

 your Bread to the full, and dwell in your Land 

 fafely. 



In fhort. Where does the divine Goodnefs of 

 Providence appear more than here > And what 

 is there of all his Works that calls for a more 

 grateful tribute of Thanks ? Befides, we are 

 alfured, That this Negled was one thing that 

 drew down the Vengeance of God upon the 

 Jews, as Jeremiah teftifieth, ch. v. 24. Neither 

 jay they in their hearts.^Let us now fear the Lord 

 our God, that giveth Rain, both the former and 

 latter in his feafon ^ he referveth unto us the 

 appointed Weeks ofFIarveJl, To him therefore 

 that gives Rain on the Earth, andfendeth Wa- 

 ters upon the Fields^ be everlafting Praife. 



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