198 Twenty Red/dmfor denying Life. Vifhes,even mutt: tl,acs !: tft die to feed you, yea often for your cielight,to make you al raft,, when you have no necef- fitv.T1-p? harmlefs flieep you will not fpare ; The moil la- bo Ox, the melt beaus full Bird ,muft give up their lives to fat your pleafure. And is not God ten thoufand thoufand times even in.finiLely more above you,then you are above your feilow-c,:eatues ? .7..s one creature fitter to kill another, and a fterwarcA devour it , and become its grave, then God to dfpoe of the Livesofall. 6. Where could you wi/h your Livet to be better, then in the hand of the molt wife and gratious Cod ? If you may refl con- tent, or have confidence in any, it is in him. You need not dosl.bt of his g6Thonefs, for he is Goodleft and Love it felf. And therefore thoughyou fee not the world to come that you are palling to, yet as long as you know that you are in the hands of Love it felf, what caufe have you of dlfquiet or difiruft ? And that you know that he is wife as well as Good, and .d/ mighty as well as Wife, and therefore as he meaneth you no ( if you arehis children ) fo he will not miftake, nor fail in the performance : You need not fear left your happi- nefs fhould mifcarry for want of skill in him that is Omnifci- ent, or for want of will in him that is your Father, or for want of Power in him that is Omnipotent. You may far better truft Godwithyour lives; then your felves. For you have not wifdom enough to know what is belt for you nor skill to accomplifh it, nor Power to go through with it : Nay you love not your felves fo well as Godloth love you. Did you but believe this, you would better truft him. You can truft your felees in a narrow Ship, upon thewide and raging Seas, whenyou never faw the Countrey that you are going to;andall beeaufe you believe that the voyage is for your com- modity, and that you havea skilfull Pilot. And cannot you commend your fouls into the hand of God, to convey you throughdeath to the invifible glory, as confidently as you dare commit your lives to the conduct ofa-man, and to a tot- tering Ship in ahazardous Ocean ? You can truft your lives on the skill ofa Phyfitian; And cannot you mill them on the will of God ? If you had your choice whether your lives should
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