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morrow shall be as this day, next year as this,
and much more abundant, Isa 56:12. We must
learn how to want, as well as how to abound.
4. See the goodness of God in sending the
seven years of plenty before those of famine,
that provision might be made accordingly.
Thus he sets the one over-against the other, Ec
7:14. With what wonderful wisdom has
Providence, that great housekeeper, ordered the
affairs of this numerous family from the
beginning hitherto! Great variety of seasons
there have been, and the produce of the earth is
sometimes more and sometimes less; yet, take
one time with another, what was miraculous
concerning the manna is ordinarily verified in
the common course of Providence, He that
gathers much has nothing over, and he that
gathers little has no lack, Ex 16:18.
5. See the perishing nature of our worldly
enjoyments. The great increase of the years of
plenty was quite lost and swallowed up in the
years of famine; and the overplus of it, which
seemed very much, yet did but just serve to
keep men alive, Ge 41:29-31. Meats for the
belly, and the belly for meats, but God shall
destroy both it and them, 1Co 6:13. There is