Sermons preached

1. That God is a Sovereign Lord, and dispenses these outward things at his Pleasure. We are not Proprietaries, we must only content our selves with the use, or a transitory fruition. Luk. 16. 12. If you have not been faithful in another's, who will give you that which is your own? That others, is God, who is the dispenser, and disposer of these things. The whole drift of the Parable is to show that we are but Stewards, God reserves the Sovereign right to himself, gives us only the use or trust for our own and others Good. No Man esteemeth himself to be an owner of that which another, besides himself, ⟨p. 234⟩hath Power to dispose of, as God hath of us and of all that belongeth to us. Our Possession of any thing is but limited and respective. We are but Tenants at the Will of the Lord, he can take us from our Service, or our Service from us at his own Pleasure. Job. 9. 12. Behold, he takes away, who can hinder him? who will say to him, What dost thou? God hath an absolute Power, his Right is uncontrollable; so is not ours. Now this hath a great influence upon contentedness with our Condition: For if we and all that we have be God's own, he may do with his own as it pleases him. Mat. 20. 15. If he takes any thing from us he doth but require his own, and nothing more reasonable but that every one should have liberty to dispose of what is his own according to his Will. Every one of you must say, I am God's Creature, he may use me for his Glory in what manner, and in what rank, and degree he pleaseth.

1. That God is a Sovereign Lord, and dispenses these outward things at his Pleasure. We are not Proprietaries, we must only content our selves with the use, or a transitory fruition. Luk. 16. 12. If you have not been faithful in anothers, who will give you that which is your own? That others, is God, who is the dispenser, and disposer of these things. The whole drift of the Parable is to shew that we are but Stewards, God reserves the Sovereign right to himself, gives us only the use or trust for our own and others Good. No Man esteemeth himself to be an owner of that which another, besides himself,