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or all these, without God, can avail him. Nay, it causes God not only to withdraw his own help, but the help of all things whereon such a man does rely; and what is more, causes them instead of being for him, to be utterly against him. Is it not just with God, that whosoever will not be beholden to God to bear their burthen, but will take it up and bear it themselves, should be made to bear it alone, and to the distress and disquietment of their own hearts?

Wherefore all these things considered, I return to the exhortation, or conclusion before proposed, viz. Commit thy ways unto the Lord, and trust in him. Cast all your care on God; be careful in nothing, Psa. lv. 22.

O! how happy are we Christians, if we did but know, or knowing would enjoy our happiness! We are cared for in every thing that we need, and that can be good for us; we may live without taking thought, or care in any thing. Our work is only to study and endeavour to please God, walking before him in sincerity, and with a perfect heart; then we may cleave to him, and rest on him both for our bodies and souls without fear or distraction, 1 Cor. vii. 35. God is all-sufficient, and all in all to such; he is known by his name Jehovah to such, Exod. vi. 3; even to the being the accomplisher of his promises to them. If we shall wisely and diligently care to do our work, we, serving so good and so able a Master, need not take thought about our wages. If we would make it our care to obey and please so good, and so rich, and bountiful a Father; we need not be careful for our maintenance here, in our minority and non-age; nor yet for our eternal inheritance, when we shall come to full age. We in this holy security and freedom from carefulness, if we are not wanting to ourselves, might live in an heaven upon earth; and that not only when we have means, for even then our security is in God, not in the means, but when to the eye of flesh we have no means: for God is above, and more than all means.