Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

CASE I. The prospect of death (will some of the saints say) is uneasy to me, not knowing what shall become of my family, when I am gone. ANSW. The righteous hath hope in his death, as to his family, as well as to himself. Although' you have little for the present, to live upon; which has been the case of many of God's chosen ones, 1 Cor. iv. 11. We (namely the Apostles, ver. 9) both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place: and tho' you have nothing to leave them, as was the case of that son of the prophet's, who did fear the Lord, and yet died in debt which he was unable to pay; as his poor widow represents, 2 Kings iv. 1. yet you have a good friend to leave them too; a covenanted God, to whom you may confidently commit them, Jer. xlix. 11. Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me. The world can bear witness of signal settlements made upon the children of providence; such as by their pious parents have been cast upon God's providential care. It has been often remarked that they wanted neither provision nor education Moses is an eminent instance of this. He, albeit he was an outcast infant, (Exod. ii. 3.) yet was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, Acts vii. 22. and became king in Jeshurum, Deut. xxxiii. 5. O! may we not be ashamed, that we do not securely trust him with the concerns of our families, to whom, as our Saviour and Redeemer, we have committed our eternal interests!

CASE I. The prospect of death (will some of the saints say) is uneasy to me, not knowing what shall become of my family, when I am gone. ANSW. The righteous hath hope in his death, as to his family, as well as to himself. Altho' you have little for the present, to live upon; which has been the case of many of God's chosen ones, 1 Cor. iv. 11. We (namely the Apostles, ver. 9) both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place: and tho' you have nothing to leave them, as was the case of that son of the prophet's, who did fear the Lord, and yet died in debt which he was unable to pay; as his poor widow represents,