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that is the first property of his trust ; it begins in 

 great self-diffidence : but. 



Secondly. It goes on in active diligence. The 

 young one hath its last retreat indeed under the 

 dam's wing: yet the little wing it hath of its own, it 

 employs to bring it thither. The eagle in Moses's 

 song, as I noted before, not only bears its eaglets 

 on her own wings, but stirs up her nest too, and 

 provokes them first to do their uttermost. 



Though David resolved well, *I will not trust 

 in my bow ; yet he used it sure. It was not 

 Goliah's sword that could save him ; yet gladly 

 he girt himself with it, when the High Priest 

 reached it him. There is no king, saith he, that 

 can be saved by the multitude of an host; yet he 

 refused not the volunteers that came to list them- 

 selves under him. He fled from Saul with all 

 diligence into the cave ; though he had still a re- 

 fuge beyond it. Though he sets up his rest under 

 God's Wings ; yet, t Oh, (saith he) that I had the 

 wings of a dove too, that I might fly away to my 

 rest. 



The moral, and the reddition of all is but thus 

 much. We all of us have wings of our own too ; 

 faculties, and abilities, that must be used (why 

 else were they given us?) though they must not 

 be trusted in. The most excellent Father Paul 

 of the JServi of Venice was libelled in the holy 

 office (as they call it) for advising one that pre- 



* Psm. xliv. 6. xxxiii. 16. f Psm. Iv. 6. 



t See bis Life. 



