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 without God; therefore, learn to eſteem God above all riches. Saith David. "Whom have I in heaven but thee? And there is none on earth that I deſire beſides thee." Pſalm Ixxiii. 25.

Oh! that we could remember theſe things ſo as to prevent all diſtruſtful and diſtracting cares. Firſt, They are a diſhonour and reproach to the all-ſufficient God, as though he was not able to ſupply all our wants, and anſwer all our deſires; and to deliver us out of all our calamities and miſeries.

But, Secondly, Inordinate cares are a great diſhonour to God, as if our wants were not known to him as his own works; as if he had not a fixed eye upon all our ſtraits and trials that lie upon us, and knows every burden that make us to ſigh, and did not behold every affliction that makes us to ſigh, and did not observe every tear, that dropped from our eyes, Deut. xi. Psal. xl. 5. 2 Cor. vi. 8. Turn to theſe ſcriptures, and they will aſſuredly confirm you.

But, Thirdly, Inordinate cares are a diſhonour and reproach to the