3. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecuteme. Before the enemy comes to close quarters, the Lord can push them off as
with a long spear. To stave off trouble is no mean act of lovingkindness. As
when some valiant warrior with his lance keeps back a host until his weaker
brethren have made good their escape, so does the Lord often hold the
believer’s foes at bay until the good man has taken breath, or clean fled from
his foes. He often gives the foes of Zion some other work to do, and so gives
rest to his church. Say unto my soul, I am thy salvation. The Lord can
also calm the mind of his servant by express assurance from his own mouth that
he is, and will be, safe under the Almighty wing. An inward persuasion of
security in God is of all things the most precious in the furnace of
persecution.
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