Of acknowledging God in all our Ways. 3 IS but the difpofal thereof is of the Lord. What SERM, then can be more reaforìable and becoming XII. us, or what can afford more true fatisfac`tion tnrf to the mind, than to look to the fupreme Regent of nature, who by Ready counfel go- verns its whole courfe, and cart all our cares upon him ? And though thus we fhall not know every particular future event, we (hall know what is abundantly fufficient for the fupport of a wife and good mind, that the greateft good is conftantly carried on, and it "hall be well with the righteous. And, Laflly; this ought always to be accompa- nied with refignation to the will of God, which alfo is an important part of the duty comprehended in acknowledging him. Since it is impoffible for us to know what is heft in the whole, becaufe our finite underftandings cannot comprehend the intire conneEtions and dependencies of things, and as there is no foundation of hope and comfort, but what arifes from an implicit truft in that infinitely wife and good being who rules over all, fo this is infeparable from an abfolute fubmif- lion to his will. For the events which feet to us for the prefent molt grievous, and which therefore we are the molt inclined to fxCeDt out of our refignation, may be, for what
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