A Saint Indeed

Sol. Are you not sure of that? then you have other matters to trouble your selves about than these: Methinks, this should be the least of all your cares; I do not find that souls perplexed and troubled about the want of Christ, pardon of sin, &c. are usually very anxious, or solicitous about these things. He that seriously puts such questions as these: what shall I do to be saved? how shall I know my sin is pardoned? doth not usually trouble himself, with what, shall I eat, what shall I drink? or wherewithal shall I be clothed?

Sol. Are you not sure of that? then you have other matters to trouble your selves about than these: Methinks, this should be the least of all your cares; I do not find that souls perplexed and troubled about the want of Christ, pardon of sin, &c. are usually very anxious, or sollicitous about these things. He that seriously puts such questions as these: what shall I do to be saved? how shall I know my sin is pardoned? doth not usually trouble himself, with what, shall I eat, what shall I drink? or wherewithall shall I be cloathed?

6. Consid. Doth it become the children of such a Father to distrust his all-sufficiency, or repine against any of his Dispensations?

Do you well to question his care and love upon every new exigence; say, have you not been ashamed of this formerly? hath not your Fathers seasonable provisions for you in former straits, put you to the blush? and made you resolve never to question his love and care any more, and yet will you renew your unworthy suspicions of him again? Dis-ingenious Child, reason thus with thy self, if I perish for want of what is good ⟨p. 100⟩and needful for me, it must either be because my Father knows not my wants, or hath not wherewith to supply them; or else regards not what becomes of me. Which of these shall I charge upon him; not the first; for,