3 r 2 Of acknowledging God in all our Ways, SERM. God, and to advance the honour of Chri, XII. fhianity. It is not enough barely to avoid 'what appears plainly to be unlawful; it fhould be our care to guide our afairs with df- cretion ; to manage them fo, as, in the heft manner we can, to ferve the caufe of truth, of piety, and virtue ; which is always upper- mofï: in the heart of a good man, and to promote it ought to be the principal intention of all. A Third inftance of acknowledging God in our ways, is, putting our confidence in him, and committing our ways and our works to the conduCt of his providence. We muff confider ourfelves as in an indigent and im- perfect condition. We have not in our hands the government of the world, nor the dif- pofäl of events in it, even thofe relating to ourfelves : experience fhows that things fall out often otherwife than we wifhed or expected, and no projet of ours can afcertain the ifue we defire, nor all the diligence we can pof -. fibly ufe; for it depends on caufes intirely out of the reach of our knowledge and power. And yet we ,cannot help being follicitous about iifues ; they are, forne of them, of great importance to our own happinefs, and to interefts; for which the belt affections of our
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