and Joshua xxiii, "Ye shall not go aside from My
commandments to the right hand or to the left." [Deut 28:14,
Josh. 23:6]

[Sidenote: Calling on God's Name]

XXV. The third work of this Commandment is to call upon God's
Name in every need. For this God regards as keeping His Name holy
and greatly honoring it, if we name and call upon it in adversity
and need. And this is really why He sends us so much trouble,
suffering, adversity and even death, and lets us live in many
wicked, sinful affections, that He may thereby urge man and give
him much reason to run to Him, to cry aloud to Him, to call upon
His holy Name, and thus to fulfil this work of the Second
Commandment, as He says in Psalm l: "Call upon Me in the day of
trouble; I will deliver you and thou shalt glorify Me; for I
desire the sacrifice of praise." [Ps. 50:15] And this is the way
whereby thou canst come unto salvation; for through such works
man perceives and learns what God's Name is, how powerful it is
to help all who call upon it; and Thereby confidence and faith
grow mightily, and these are the fulfilling of the first and
highest Commandment. This is the experience of David, Psalm liv:
"Thou hast delivered me out of all trouble, therefore will I
praise Thy Name and confess that it is lovely and sweet." [Ps.
54:7] And Psalm xci says, "Because he hath set his hope upon Me,
therefore will I deliver him: I will help him, because he hath
known My Name." [Ps. 91:14]

[Sidenote: In Prosperity]

Lo! what man is there on earth, who would not all his life long
have enough to do with this work? For who lives an hour without
trials? I will not mention the trials of adversity, which are
innumerable. For this is the most in dangerous trial of all, when
there is no trial and everything is and goes well; for then a man
is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse the
times of prosperity. Yea, here he has ten times more need to
call upon God's Name than when in adversity. Since it is written,
Psalm xci, "A thousand shall fail on the left hand and ten
thousand on the right hand." [Ps. 91:7]

So too we see in broad day, in all men's daily experience, that
more heinous sins and vice occur when there is peace, when all
things are cheap and there are good times, than when war,
pestilence, sicknesses and all manner of misfortune burden us; so
that Moses also fears for his people, lest they forsake God's
commandment for no other reason than because they a