A Saint Indeed

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, Mark 6. 32. My Father knows what I have need of, my condition is not hid from him: Nor the second, for the earth is the Lords and the fullness of it, Psalm 24. 1. His Name is God All-sufficient. Gen. 17. 1 Not the last, for, as a father pities his children, so the Lord pities them that fear him: Psalm 103. 13. The Lord is exceeding pitiful and of tender mercy, James 5. 11. He •ears the young Ravens when they cry, Job 38. 41. and will he not hear me? Consider (saith Christ) the fowls of the air, Matth. 6. 26. Not the fowls at the door, that are every day fed by hand, but the fowls of the air, that have none to provide for them. Doth he feed and clothe his enemies, and will he forget his children? He heard the very cry of Ishmael in distress, Gen. 21. 17. O my unbelieving heart! dost thou yet doubt? Remember Hagar and the Child.

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 Childe, reason thus with thy self, if I perish for want of what is good