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[1.] What is the nature of worldly things; they
are make-bates and occasions of strife.
[2.] What is often the lot even of the most quiet
and peaceable men in this world; those that
avoid striving yet cannot avoid being striven
with, Ps 120:7. In this sense, Jeremiah was a
man of contention (Jer 15:10), and Christ
himself, though he is the prince of peace.
[3.] What a mercy it is to have plenty of water,
to have it without striving for it. The more
common this mercy is the more reason we have
to be thankful for it.
(4.) At length he removed to a quiet settlement,
cleaving to his peaceable principle, rather to fly
than fight, and unwilling to dwell with those
that hated peace, Ps 120:6. He preferred
quietness to victory. He dug a well, and for this
they strove not, Ge 26:22. Note, Those that
follow peace, sooner or later, shall find peace;
those that study to be quiet seldom fail of being
so. How unlike was Isaac to his brother
Ishmael, who, right or wrong, would hold what
he had, against all the world! Ge 16:12. And
which of these would we be found the