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THAT TIMES OF PEACE ARE UNPROPITIOUS TO POVERTY
THAT TIMES OF PEACE ARE UNPROPITIOUS TO POVERTY
But alas! after a while Peace was made, a Peace more hurtful than any War. In the beginning of that long Peace but few were sealed, in the middle of it yet fewer, at the end fewer still. And behold! of a surety in♦Isa. xxxviii. 17.♦this Peace is my Bitterness most bitter; for All fly from me or drive me from them; by none am I sought, by All forsaken. This Peace was the work of Enemies, not of Friends; of Strangers, not of my Sons. I indeed nourished♦Isa. i. 2.♦and raised up Sons, but they contemned me. In that Time when the Lamp of the Lord♦Job xxix. 3.♦shone upon my Head, and I walked by His Light through the Darkness, Satan was raging in many who were with me, the World was enticing them, and the Concupiscence of the Flesh, so that many of♦1 John ii. 15.♦them ended by loving the World and the Things of the World.