z $ Of acknowledging God in all our Ways. SERM. through the whole courfe of his life upotà XII. earth bore a variety of grief, hunger, thirft, "---v'wearinefs, poverty, the contradiction of fin- ners, indeed the moil bitter reproaches, at 'aft a cruel and ignominious death ; all this he endured with the moft perfeí`t patience, intirely acquiefcing in the pleafure of his hea- venly father, faying, not my will be done, but thine. Let us then walk as he did, in all our ways acknowledging the fovereignty, the moft perfe& wifdom and goodnefs of God, by fubmitting in all events abfolutely to his dif- pofal. Having finifhed what I intended to lay upon the firft part of the text, the duty of acknowledging God in all our ways, I proceed, Secondly, To confider the confequent ad- vantage which is here faid to follow the per- formance of this duty, namely, that he will dired our paths. As we are rational and free agents, capable of knowing the ends of our being, and of purfuing them with under- itanding and defign, and as we are in a great meafure entrufted with the care of our own ,happiness, which we obtain or come fhort of according to our behaviour, there is nothing of greater importance, and, that we are more juflly
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