Of acknowledging God in all our Ways. 313 our nature determine us to be greatly con- SERM. cerned. In fuch a cafe, what can we do XII. but have our recourfe to a fuperior direfting t"'"O-° caufe and ruler, Pnce we know there is fuch a one, infinitely powerful and infinitely wife, who not only is able by his interpofition to prevent dangers which we cannot forefee, and bring to pafs events which are beyond our comprehenfion and beyond our ftrength to accomplifh, but actually fees the end from the beginning, has the whole chain and feries of things at once in his view, an abfolute domi- nion over all creatures, and who is as mer- ciful and gracious as he is powerful and wife ? What confolation can poffibly arife in the mind of man with refped to futurity, if it be not from a firm perfuafion of this principle ? Suppofing the world to be guided by blind chance, or fatal neceflïty, we muff Rill labour under diftreffing uncertainty concerning all our interefts, even to our very being. We know not but the next moment we (hall ceafe to be, or be extremely miferable. When our breath goeth out, and we hold it by a very precarious tenure, in that day our thoughts, not only for the prefent Rate, but exiftence itfelf, may perifh. On the contrary, here is a folid foundation for the mind to reft upon, that
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