191 Of Patience. SERM. as it is expreffed in the book of Yob, that is VII. that God fhould abandon the care of his go- verment in any inftance, or that he fhould not purfue the intire fcheme of his providence by firm, even and fteady meafures. But if we ourfelves, and all our affairs, and the whole feries of events which befal us, are comprehended in his eternal counfels, then who may call him to an account, or fay unto. him, -what doell thou? The mind of man cannot but upon refledion approve what is wifely done, and for the belt in the whole ; and as this is apparently the charaéter of God's government or difpofition of things by his providence and every part of it, if we believe his abfolute perfeEtions, muff not our own hearts condemn us in repining againft it ? If the fupreme ruler of the univerfe conflantly and uniformly carries on one defign, that is, the greateft abfolute good, by a vaft variety of methods, everyone of them is proper: as in his works of creation, fuch as the frame of the human nature, thofe parts which appear to us lefs honourable, or ornamental, are yet needful ; and if in the plan of providence, a certain portion of afllic`tion is neceffary, who may quarrel with that which by the dire Lion of
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