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 for his people according to his promiſe.

Fiſthly, Unlawful cares are a reproach to the pity and compaſſion of God: God is a God of pity and compaſſion to all his, ſee Pſal ciii 13. "Like as a father pitieth his children, ſo the Lord pitieth them that fear him." You know there is a great love, pity, and compaſſion of a tender father towards his child, much more in God to his children.

I have read of a young man being merry at ſea in a great ſtorm, and being aſked the reaſon, he anſwered, "That the pilot of the ſhip was his father." Ah! ſirs, what ſtorms and tempeſt there is in the world, that the people of God may be in, yet ſuch is the love and pity of God, that he will be ſure to have a care of his. Read the golden promiſes of God in Heb.xiii "Let your converſation be without covetouſneſs; for I will never leave thee nor forſake thee." Sirs, ſhall the word and promiſe of a king cheer us againſt the fear of want? and ſhall not the word of the King of kings arm us againſt the diſtracting cares