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Again, Fourthly, Inordinate cares are a diſhonour to the fidelity of God as though God was not the faithful God, and hath bound himſelſ by Promiſe, Covenant, and Oath, to take care of his people, and to look to their welfare. God is the fountain and ocean, from whence all faithfulneſs flows, upon which all our hope, praiſes and prayers floweth. God will be ſure to ſhew himself a faithful God to all that fear him. "I had rather (ſays Plutarch) that men ſhould ſay, That there was never ſuch a man as Plutarch, rather than ſay, That Pultarch was unfaithful." Much leſs had men better ſay, There is no God, than to ſay, God is unfaithful. Men commonly ſay and unſay that which they have ſaid, but ſo will not God: Joſhua charges the children of Iſrael to ſhew but in one thing, that God failed them in the good things that he had promiſed them. If God in his faithfulneſs afflict his People to make good his threatenings, oh! much more will he in faithfulnſs preſerve and provide