196 Twenty Direaions for denying Life, your lives, you may as well deny him thedifpofe of any thing,, and to deny him to be God : for he hash the fame right to you as to any thing elfe, and the fame power over you. And therefore ifycu confent that he ilia!! be God (for which he needs noz your confent) you mull confent that he be the Owner and Difpofer of all,andofyou as well as all things elfe: Otherwife he is not God. 2. You canhe content that the liver of others,yea that all the world be at Gods Difpofe In reafon you cannot with it fhould be otherwife. You are content that the lives of Em- perors and Kings that are greater thenyoulhould be at his Difpofe ? And is there not the fame Reafon that he difpofe of yofir life as oftheirJ ?Areyou better then they ? or more your own ? or bath the world more need of you then them ? or rather is it not unreafonablefe/Mmi, that makes fo unreafo- nable a differencewith you ? If Reafon might ferve, the cafe is plain. 3. You are contented that far greater matters thenyour lives fhould be at Gods difpofe : The Sun in its courfe, the frame efna ture,Heav en and Earth and all therein are at his difpofe, and would you with it otherwife ? Dayes and Nights , and Summer and Winter, and times and feafons are at his difpofe; andyou dare not murmur that all the year is not Summer or day-light, and that there is anyNight or Winter. The An gels of Heaven are at his difpofe to do his will and are content to be ufed on earth for your fervice, and they de- fire not to be from under his difpofe ? And fhould yam defire it ? or rather defire that his will may be done on earth as it is in heaven l If you would not have theCroWns and Kingdoms of the world at his Difpofe, andHeaven and Earth at his Di- fpofe, you would not have him to be God : But ifyou would have thefe greatell things at his difpofe, what areyou then,that loon' livci fhould be excepted? 4. Who would youhave to be the Difpofer of mens Lives but God ? Is any other fit for the undertaking ? Noother can give life, but he ! And no other can preferve and continue it but he If your life had been in any creatures hand,you had been dead lone ago : ror no creature is able to uphold it fell, much
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