CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

4. The Meditation of this Title will breed tranquillity and quietness of spirit, free from all sinful cares and distrustful thoughts: I have a Father in heaven, and it is not my care, my counsel, my labour, can provide for me, but his goodness merely, Mat. 5.25, 26. Our Saviour doth there at large give heavenly Physic to kill these worms, these moths of cares that are ready to eat into us and devour us, and amongst other helps this is one, Your heavenly Father knoweth what you have need of; As we see our little Children, then eat and drink, and take no care for their raiment, for their food, but go to their Parents, such a quiet and composed frame of soul would God have all his Children have; If you call me Father, why do ye not commit all to my wisdom, to my love; Can a child order his affairs better for himself then his Father; Is it not well for the child that it is not his wisdom and care but his Father that he must trust to, How quickly would he undo all? Thus may God our heavenly Father say, Cast your care and burden upon me, how quickly would you undo your selves, ruin your selves, if all were left to you, your happiness lieth in my wisdom and love to you; Oh what a cheerful quiet heart would the due meditation of this cause in us! It's my Father in heaven that doth all things, that governeth the whole, that dispenseth all things; It's my Father in heaven that giveth life and motion to every thing, and therefore I need not be afraid; Know then that all those gnawing worms of unbelief and fears upon thee, whereby thou makest thy self an hell to thy self, they come from want of this consideration.

4. The Meditation of this Title will breed tranquillity and quietnesse of spirit, free from all sinful cares and distrustful thoughts: I have a Father in heaven, and it is not my care, my counsell, my labour, can provide for me, but his goodnesse meerly, Mat. 5.25, 26. Our Saviour doth there at large give heavenly Physick to kill these worms, these moths of cares that are ready to eat into us and devour us, and amongst other helps this is one, Your heavenly Father knoweth what you have need of; As we see our little Children, then eat and drink, and take no care for their raiment, for their food, but go to their Parents, such a quiet and composed frame of soul would God have all his Children have; If you call me Father, why do ye not commit all to my wisedom, to my love; Can a childe order his affairs better for himself then his Father; Is it not well for the childe that it is not his wisedom and care but his Father that he must trust to, How quickly would he undoe all? Thus may God our heavenly Father say, Cast your care and burden upon me, how quickly would you undo your selves, ruine your selves, if all were left to you, your happinesse lieth in my wisedome and love to you; Oh what a chearfull quiet heart would the due meditation of this cause in us! It's my Father in heaven that doth all things, that governeth the whole, that dispenseth all things; It's my Father in heaven that giveth life and motion to every thing, and therefore I need not be afraid; Know then that all those gnawing worms of unbelief and fears upon thee, whereby thou makest thy self an hell to thy self, they come from want of this consideration.