Seasonable counsel, or, Advice to sufferers

[Let him commit the keeping of his soul to God] but to what boot. if he be not able to keep it in his hand, and from the power of him that seeks the soul to destroy it? But my Father that gave them me, saith Christ, is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers hand. (Joh. 10.29.) So then there can be no sorrow, affliction, or misery invented, by which the Devil may so strongly prevail, as thereby to pluck the soul out of the hand of him, who has received it, to keep it from falling, and perishing thereby. The Text therefore supposeth a sufficiency of power in God to support, and a sufficiency of comfort and goodness to embolden the soul to endure for him: let Satan break out, and his instruments too, to the greatest degree of their rage and cruelty.

[Let him commit the keeping of his soul to God] but to what boot. if he be not able to keep it in his hand, and from the power of him that seeks the soul to destroy it? But my Father that gave them me, saith Christ, is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers hand. (Joh. 10.29.) So then there can be no sorrow, affliction, or misery invented, by which the Devil may so strongly prevail, as thereby to pluck the soul out of the hand of him, who has received it, to keep it from falling, and perishing thereby. The Text therefore supposeth a sufficiency of power in God to support, and a sufficiency of comfort and goodness to imbolden the soul to endure for him: let Satan break out, and his instruments too, to the greatest degree of their rage and cruelty.

First, There is in God a sufficiency of power to keep them that have laid their soul at his foot to be preserved. And hence he is called the Soul-keeper, the soul-preserver. (Pro. 24.12.) The Lord is thy keeper, the Lord is thy shade, upon thy right hand. The Sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the Moon by night, the Lord ⟨p. 22⟩