God's goodness, the joy and wonder of bis People. A SER MON PREACHED April 23, 1789, A T ST. PANCRAS' CHURCH, BY THE REV. HENRY MEAD, MORNING PREACHER AT THE SAID CHURCH, AND LECTURER OF ST. JOHN'S, WAPPING. Published at the request of many who heard it. "They fhall abundantly utter the memory of thy great "goodness."-Pfalm cxlv. 7. LONDON: PRINTED BY J. DREW. Sold by Mr. STRATTON, Bookfeller N° 12, Tottenham- ADVERTISEMENT. THE profits arifing from this publication will be appropriated to the ufe of the Charity School of St. Pancras. Its prefent establishment confifts of twenty-four female Children, who are taken entirely from their parents, and are wholly maintained in the school-house; by which means they are prevented from following those bad examples they are too liable to meet with both at home and abroad, during the recefs from fchool.--As the Trustees wish to extend this Inftitution ftill further, they refpectfully folicit the Inhabitants of St. Pancras, and other liberal-minded Perfons. for their affiftance; hoping that many more Ladies and Gentlemen will become Subfcribers, and thus enable them to execute fo defirable a plan. They further requeft of those who have Plain Work done abroad, that they will be pleased to employ the Children for the benefit of the Charity. N. B. Subfcriptions are received by Samuel Foyfter, Efq. Treasurer, No. 27, Tottenham-freet. PSA L M XXXI. 19. ◇ how great is thy goodness, which thou haft laid up for them that fear thee; which thou haft wrought for them that truft in thee, before the fons of men! F in this life only we have hope in Christ," faith St. Paul, "we are of all "men moft miferable." But viewing, with the eye of Faith, the heavenly Canaan, the future inheritance of the faints; he not only thought little of the troubles of this mortal ftate, but was enabled to rejoice in tribulation. No mere man ever fuffered more for the cause of God and Religion, than himfelf but, instead of murmuring, and thinking his lot hard, he could fay "Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, "worketh for us a far more exceeding and "eternal weight of glory; while we look + 2 Cor. xi. 23, 33° * 1 Cor. xv. 19. B not 1 "not at the things which are feen, but at "the things which are not feen: for the "things which are seen are temporal, but "the things which are not seen are eternal*.” And fuch a view of things had David. It appears from the Pfalm of which our text is a part, that he was brought into great trouble and diftrefs, and was reproached by his cruel enemies, who had meditated his ruin; but, instead of returning evil for evil,, he wifely and piously fled unto the Lord for fuccour, and found him a prefent help in the day of adverfity. Divine confolations cheered his drooping fpirit; and whilft contemplating the goodness of God to his people, he forgot his forrows. how great is thy goodness "which thou haft laid up for them that fear thee; which thou haft wrought for them "that trust in thee, before the fons of men!" The perfons interested in the bleffing here fpoken of, are described as fearing the Lord, and trufting in him. By which we are to understand that they are true believers: for fearing the Lord and trufting in him is, in * 2. Cor. iv. 17, 18. the |