the Fruits .o° W fdom. 145' the things of this World, from an anxiety S E R m, about which he had been diffuading them) VI. fail be added unto you. The other is, 'Tim. iv. 8. Godlinefs is profitable unto all things, having the promife of the life that now is, and of that which is to come. For the firft, it is plain our Lord's defigri is to fhew the folly of an inordinate careful - nefs, not about abundance of worldly things, outward fplendor, and great wealth, but the neceffaries of life, what we (hall eat and drink, and wherewithal we (hall be cloathed. The promife therefore muft be underftood to extend no farther than to anfwer the intention of fuperfeding our thoughtfulnefs about thefe needful things; encouraging us to truft chearfully in the bounty of provi- dence, for fupplying us with them, and it loth not reach to honour and riches ; and yet even in that limited fenfe, we muff not conceive of it inconfiftently with the, whole current of the gofiel dof{ rine, which requi= reth a refignation of our very lives, and -a readinefs to part with them for the honour of God, and to preferve a good confcience, As to the other text, ' Tim. iv. 8. it feem- eth to mean, that in the practice of true re- ligion we may hope that, ordinarily, God's gracious care will be employed for- our fup- Vor,. III, L port
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