A Sermon on Occafaon of a public Fall. 3 29 weak unthoughtful minds, looking only to SERM. its firm and molt obvious face, imagine it to XIII- be without any intelligent dire kion at all ; t wti and the wifeft men find themfelves obliged to acknowledge that the feries, the connexion and dependence of events which they call the ways and judgments of God, attributing them to governing providence, are un- fèarchable and pall finding out. One very important thing relating to this fubjeEt is in a great meafure hid from us, that is, whe- ther particular events befalling the individuals of mankind proceed from the favour or dif- pleafure of almighty God. Solomon : fays, no man knows love or hatred by all that is befòre them, and there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked. But frill this is a principle to be maintained, and it lies at the very root of all true and rational religion, that. God doth prefide over the world and all its affairs, direäing their courfe and determining their iffues, that he preferves and exercifes a fovereign dominion over all the creatures, the greateft of them are fubjed to his power, and the leaft are the objects of his care ; and this he doth in a way fuitable to his true cha- tader, that is, with perfect wifdom, equity * Ecclef. ix 1, 2. and,
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