The Christian mans care A sermon on Matth. 6. 33. Together with a short…

In like manner for your Children, would you have them so provided for, that you should not need to take any further care for them in that kind? Distrustful care, I mean still, and of uncertain event; for otherwise ^lParents ought to be careful to provide for their children; and ^mhe is worse, I say not, than an Infidel, but ⁿthan a brute beast, that doth otherwise. But would you so do for them, that they may be sure not to want? which otherwise, ^othough you leave them never so much, they may do. Do the like for them, that you are exhorted here to do for your selves. A poor man when he hath gotten his child once into the Hospital, how glad is he? he thinketh he need take no more care for him, whether he live or die, whether he leave him ought or no; (and yet he will do his best to get somewhat to leave him;) he knoweth there he shall not want. But get your Children, say I, not into Christs Hospital, but into Gods Kingdom of Grace, and they shall then be sure indeed never to want, you shall need to take no further thought for them. Let this be thy first care, and thy principal care, as for thy self, so for them, nor how to make them ⟨p. 52⟩rich, but ^phow to make them religious, how to work the sincere ^qfear of God, and ^rfaith of Christ into them. This when thou hast once effected, thou needest not be troubled to think what will become of them, if thou beest taken away from them; or what thou shalt be able, when thou diest, to do for them: thou shalt leave them Gods blessing, if thou hast nothing else to leave them; (where Religion and Righteousness runneth on in a race, there ^s