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should bestir herself to help him. Note, It should engage our care and pains about children and young
people to consider that we know not what God has designed them for, nor what great use Providence may make of them.
(3.) He directs her to a present supply (Ge 21:19): He opened her eyes (which were swollen and almost blinded with weeping), and then she saw a well of water. Note, Many that have reason enough to be comforted go mourning from day to day,
because they do not see the reason they have for comfort. There is a well of water by them in the covenant of grace, but they are not aware of it; they have not the benefit of it, till the same God that opened their eyes to see their wound opens them to see their remedy, Joh 16:6, 7. Now the apostle tells us that those things concerning Hagar and Ishmael
are allegoroumena (Ga 4:24), they are to be allegorized; this then will serve to illustrate the folly,
[1.] Of those who, like the unbelieving Jews, seek for righteousness by the law and the carnal ordinances of it, and not by the promise made in Christ, thereby running themselves into a wilderness of want and despair. Their comforts are
soon exhausted, and if God save them not by his special prerogative, and by a miracle of mercy open their eyes and undeceive them, they are undone.