Serin. 18. on Divine Providence ? r whatever we tr4 in (unlefs it be in fubordination unto God)we make it our God,or at leaft,our Idol. True trnft in God takes us off the hinges of all other confidences ; As we cannot ferve, fo we cannot truftGod and Mammon. There muff be but one firing to the Bow of our trill }, . and that is the Lord. More particularly, we may not, muff not repofe an holy truft in any thing betides God, either within us, or without us. I. Not in any thing within ue : And fo, T. Not in our Heads, Vnderftanding, Wifdom, Policy. No Cafe le#:n- ing to our own r Vnderftanding. Carnal Wifdom is but an ignia fat am!, r Prov. 3.5. that miflcadsinto a Bog, and ci:ere leaves us. Thy Wifdom, and thy Knowledge, it bath perverted thee, Ifa.4o. 17. He that is wife in his own eyes will be found atlaft to 'land in his own light. 2. Not in our own hearts. It is g folly, the height of folly , to truft s Prov. 28.26. thofe Lumps of fle fh, that are fo h deceitFull fo defperately wicked. 11] er.i 9.9. 3. Not in onr bodily firength and vigour. Thofe hands, that are now able to break a bow, of flee], will el loon hang down and i faint. The rEccl.1:.1,2,3 moff brawny Arm,utterly unable to ward off,or wreflle with,the afraults of Death or sicknefs.ThofeLegr,which now Rand like Pillars of Brafs, will (portly appear to be, what indeed they are but finking Pillars or mouldring clay. Raite the f rengrh of man to its highefl ;if.t'- yet e- ven then it cannot make, fo much as one k hair, either white or black, k Mat. 5.36. 4, Not in any Naturall or acquired Excellencies. Be they what they will, or Ihould they be far more than they are : Should all the Lines cf Created Perfeélions meet in one man, as in their Center, yet furely that man, in that his belt effate, is altogether 1 vanity, and therefore not co be ' Pfal. 39. 5. ;Tufted in. I I. Not in any thing zrithout us. To truft in any Creature without . us,is to feed, not fo much on bre. :d, as m Afbes, or rather on gravel m Ifa.44.20. Pones, which may eafily breakthe Teeth, but can never fill the Belly. I. Not inn riches : No not in the ° abundance of Riches. Though n Jer.9 23 riches encreafe, our hearts muff not befit upon them. Riches, when in °11-`11-52'8* their fullea flow.are moff P uncertain. Wilt thou therefore fat thine p I Tim. 6.17, eyes on that which u g not ? Though they teem to have a being ,yet they s Piov.23.5. are indeed but fair faced nothings, gilded vanities. Or fuppofe they are, yet the next moment they may not be. Like Birds on the Wing, ready to take their flight. 7reafures then, are not to be made our truft. They cannot r profit in the day of wrath. Nay, if we truft in our Ri- r Prov I i 4. ches on Earth, never expel$ a portion in Heaven. sooner shall the f Camel go through the Eye of a Needle,tban fuch an one pafs through r War. i 0.24, the$ate of gtory, 2. Not
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