To the Chriífian Reader. the view and confideration of his mighty and admirable worlds of creation and providence, how ignorant andwear,, hewas inhitnfelf, ho altogethersunable and incompetent to contend with God, and therefore how ra fT, and incori ide- rate he hadbeen, in notfubmi-tting (howgreat foever hisfufferings were) more quietly to him'. And, as Elihu f aid (Chap. 35. I . ) That God teacheth us more than the beans of the earth, and maketh us wifer than the fowls of Heaven : fo doubtlefs, one great fcope which the Lord bad in his eye throughout that dif courfe, was to teachJob, andwithhim ¡es, that . bis care was muchmore over him, and is over , than over the beáfis of the earth,, or the fowls of heaven. And hereupon having fhewed Bois own infinite power and wifdonn, as alfo his goodnefs and tender compaJans, inproviding for allforts of irrational living creatxres, .he left Job, and leaves us to make the Inference, how watchful he k over, bow, refpeciful to man, a rational as well as a living creature, Our blefedSaviourpreaching, upon the fame,fub4ei to his Disciples, expreffeth she Inference (Mat d. 26.) Behold the fowls of the air, for they fownot, neither do they reap, nor gather into barnN. yet your heavenly father feedçth them:
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