John Trapp on Joel 2:27

Verſe 27. And ye ſhall know that I am in the mid'ſt of Iſrael] Theſe temporall bleſſings ſhall ſeal up my love to you and preſence of grace with you. True it is that no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them Eccleſ. 9.1. becauſe all things come alike to all verſe. 2. But yet from this text we may comfortably conclude, that if the good things of this life make us more cheerfull, thankfull, hopefull: if Mercy excite us to duty, and the ſenſe of Gods love makes us love God, his wayes, and people, with a deſire to love them more, then we are loved of God, who is in us of a truth 1 Ioh. 4.10, 19. and we may know it too. For if inſtinct of nature teach dammes to know their young ones, and the young their dammes: ſhall not Gods ſpirit teach us to know him, that he is in the middeſt of us; not by his omnipreſence only, but by his gratious preſence? yea that he is the Lord our God, and none elſe; and that, while we hold us to this anhcor-hold of the faithfull ſoul, we ſhall never be aſhamed Pſal. 31.1. That was a brave ſpeech of Luther, and one of thoſe that a man would fetch upon his knees from Rome or Jeruſalem to be author of them,Joh. Manl. loc. com. pag. 145. Ipſe videret ubi anima mea manſura ſit, qui pro ea ſic ſolicitus fuit, ut vitam pro ea poſuerit, Let Him ſee to it where my ſoul ſhall reſt, who took ſo much care for it, as that he laid down his life for it.