The divine life in three treatises

Moreover, your dependence both for soul and body is all on him: You can have nothing desirable but by his gift. He feeds you, he clotheth you, he maintaineth you, he gives you life and breath, and all things; and yet can you overlook him or forget him? Do not all his mercies require your acknowledgement? A Dog will follow him that feedeth him: his eye will be upon his Master: And shall we live upon God, and yet forget and disregard him? We are taught a better use of his Mercies by the Holy Prophet, Psal. 66. 8, 9. O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard: which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved!

Moreover, your dependence both for soul and body is all on him: You can have nothing desirable but by his gift. He feeds you, he cloatheth you, he maintaineth you, he gives you life and breath, and all things; and yet can you overlook him or forget him? Do not all his mercies require your acknowledgement? A Dog will follow him that feedeth him: his eye will be upon his Master: And shall we live upon God, and yet forget and disregard him? We are taught a better use of his Mercies by the Holy Prophet, Psal. 66. 8, 9. O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard: which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved!

Nay it is not your selves alone, but all the world that depends on God. It is his power that supporteth them, and his will that disposeth of them, and his bounty that provideth for them: And therefore he must be the observation and admiration of the world: It is less unreasonable to take no notice of the Earth that beareth us and yieldeth us fruit, and of the Sun that yields us heat and light, than to disregard the Lord that is more to us than Sun and Earth, and all things. The eyes of all things wait on him; and he giveth them their meat in season: He openeth his hand and satisfieth the desire of every living thing, Psal. 145. 15, 16