Christ crucified, or, The marrow of the gospel, evidently holden forth in LXXII sermons,…

It were certainly much more becoming you to say, It is the Lord who can do us no wrong, and who hath undeservedly done us much good, let him do to us what seemeth good in his eyes.

Secondly, If it be considered that he is of infinite wisdom, and knows much better what is good for you then ye do your selves; who often mistake what is good for you through your corruption, ignorance, partiality, or prejudice; But he by the most absolute perfection of his blessed Nature is infinitely removed from all possibility of mistaking what is good in it self, or good for you; and if you will adventure your Estate and livelihood in the World on able and faithful Lawyers, when ye your selves are much unacquainted with, and ignorant of Law, and are disposed to think that the Suit that is commenced against you will ruin you, while they think otherwise; And if you will commit your health and life to skilful and painful Physicians or Chirurgeons, and receive from the one many unpleasant and loathsome Potions and Pills; and suffer from the other such painful Incisions and Injections, such Searchings, Lancings, and Pancings, such Scarifications, Cauterizings, and Amputations; From all which ye have so great an aversation, if not abhorrency, Will ye not much rather and much more confidently commit the ⟨image 4⟩conduct and care of your selves and of all that concerns you to him, of whose undertaking there is no search as to what is good for his own People, and whose faithfulness in his dealing with them reacheth to the very clouds, ¹and never faileth? The skilfullest of these may mistake, none of them being infallible, and the most faithful of them may possibly at sometimes and in some things be found unfaithfully neglective, none of them being perfect; But it is simply impossible for him either to mistake or to be unfaithful, for otherwise he should deny himself, and so cease to be God, whereof once to admit the thought is the highest blasphemy; Let therefore your confident trusting of men in their respective Professions and Callings, make you blush at, and be ashamed of your distrustings and jealousings of God, and of your quarrellings with him, even when ye know not for the time what he is doing with you, and when what is done would have been none of your own choice, but doth very much thwart and cross your natural inclination: Is it not enough that he is infinitely wise in himself, and for you? May you not therefore safely trust in him, and with unsolicitous confidence, commit the conduct of your selves and of all your concerns to him?