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 Grounds to know whether God will bleſs us in our calling, and ſpiritual way to thrive, and live without care.

IRST, to think if you be not provident and diligent in your calling, and if God do not bleſs your diligence, you may do the work of your calling in vain, and that you may look for bad ſucceſs; this to think is lawful and uſeful, for it will raiſe in you a reſolution to be provident and diligent; and when you have done all you can, theſe things will quicken you to pray to God for good ſucceſſes: If your thoughts of thriving, or not thriving be any other than theſe, and desire of ſucceſs drive you to uſe unlawful means, from doubting that you cannot ſo ſoon, or certainly, or not at all ſpeed by the use of lawful, for it makes you full of grief and fear, that though you uſe all the good means you can, all will be in vain, if you be yet doubtful. Matt. vi. 31. "Therefore take no thought, ſaying, What ſhall we eat