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 is, we need not be careful for our maintenance here in minority and non-age, nor for an inheritance when we come to full age: Thus we might live a heaven upon earth, and not only when we have means, but when we have no means, for God is above and more than all means to all his that rely ſincerely upon him.

Having ſhewed you how God is a preſent help and ſupport to his people in all afflictions and trials, we ſhall further prove theſe truths by God’s all-ſufficiency and the creature’s inſufficiency, from Gen. vii, 1. "I am the Almighty God, walk before me and be thou perfect."

From theſe words we may obſerve that the cauſe of our departure from God, and unevenneſs of our ways towards God, is from hence, that we don’t think God all-ſufficient; So on the other ſide, the cause of all our ſincerity, as perfectneſs and upright walking with God, ariſeth from hence, that we do all know him to be all-ſufficient.

Sirs, the cauſe of every man’s keeping off from God, and his uneven