Divine Conduct, or The Mystery of Providence

Due observation of Providence will both beget and secure inward tranquillity in your minds amidst the viciss•udes and revolutions of things in this unstable vain world.

DVe observation of Providence will both beget and secure inward tranquillity in your minds amidst the viciss•udes and revolutions of things in this unstable vain world.

Psal 4. 8. I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep, for the Lord only maketh me dwell in safety. He resolves the sinful fears of Events shall not rob him of his inward quiet, nor torture his thoughts with anxious presages: he will commit all his concerns into that faithful fatherly hand that had hitherto wrought all things for him, and he means not to lose the comfort of one nights rest, nor bring the evil of to morrow upon the day, but knowing in whose hand he was, wisely enjoys the sweet felicity of a resigned will.

Psal 4. 8. I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep, for the Lord only maketh me dwell in safety. He resolves the sinful fears of Events shall not rob him of his inward quiet, nor torture his thoughts with anxious presages: he will commit all his concerns into that faithful fatherly hand that had hitherto wrought all things for him, and he means not to lose the comfort of one nights rest, nor bring the evil of to morrow upon the day, but knowing in whose hand he was, wisely enjoyes the sweet felicity of a resigned will.

Now this Tranquillity of our minds is as much begotten and preserved by a due consideration of Providence, as by any thing whatsoever. Hence it was, that our Lord Jesus Christ, when he would cure the Disciples anxious and distracting solicitudes about a livelihood, bids them consider the care Providence hath over the Birds of the air, and the Lilies of the field, how it feeds the one, and clothes the other without any anxious care of theirs; and would have them well consider those Providences, and reason themselves into a calm and sweet composure of spirit from those considerations,