Now also, when I am om and gray headed, O God forsake me not. Psalms 71:18. O keep my soul and deliver me I let me not be ashamed, for I put my trust in thee. Let integrity and righteousness preserve me; for I wait on thee. Psalms 25:20-21. Divine answer. Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel; which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb. And even to your old age, I am he, and even to your hoary hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear, even I will carry, and will deliver you. Isaiah 46:3-4. For the Lord is full of compassion and mercy, long suffering, and very pitiful, and forgiveth sins, and saveth in time of affliction, Sirach 2:11.
God never does nor can forsake me, since I am as near and as closely united to him as a child which is carried in the mother’s womb.
O great comfort! What can I have to fear? May I not expect every thing now confidently from him? Yes, and this is what pleases him above all things. Therefore I will be careful for nothing, but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, make my request known unto him, Philippians 4:6. Always trusting that he will certainly carry me through all difficulties to come, as he has done hitherto, that I can even give him thanks for it beforehand.
O Lord, grant that I may practise this better still.
My God, my everlasting hope,
I live upon thy truth!
Thine hands have held my childhood up
And strengthened all my youth.