Sermons preached

2. Distrustful and distracting Cares. Men are full of troubles, especially when they are in a hazardous, strait, and low Condition: therefore God forbids this, Mat. 6. 25. Take no thought for your Life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; or yet for the Body, what you shall put on: Is not the Life more than Meat? and the Body than Raiment? Men are fearful and anxious for the future, and doubt whether God will allow ⟨p. 233⟩them the necessaries of Life, Food and Raiment, therefore it is said, Luk. 12. 29. Be not ye of a doubtful Mind. They distract themselves with these anxious thoughts. The word properly signifies to be carried in the Air, as Clouds, by an uncertain Motion, and so it is applied to them who are tossed about, without consistency or fixedness of Mind, by an impatient suspense or anxious Solicitude about God's Providence.

2. Distrustful and distracting Cares. Men are full of troubles, especially when they are in a hazardous, strait, and low Condition: therefore God forbids this, Mat. 6. 25. Take no thought for your Life, what you shall eat, or what you shall drink; or yet for the Body, what you shall put on: Is not the Life more than Meat? and the Body than Rayment? Men are fearful and anxious for the future, and doubt whether God will allow ⟨p. 233⟩them the necessaries of Life, Food and Rayment, therefore it is said, Luk. 12. 29. Be not ye of a doubtful Mind. They distract themselves with these anxious thoughts. The word properly signifies to be carried in the Air, as Clouds, by an uncertain Motion, and so it is applied to them who are tossed about, without consistency or fixedness of Mind, by an impatient suspence or anxious Solicitude about God's Providence.