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to do, within your proper sphere ; and so God 

 will strengthen your hearts, all ye that put 

 your trust in the Lord, Wings, as they, are the 

 covert of safety, so also the emblems of diligence, 

 and the instruments of activity: and as they show 

 us our privilege, may teach us also this part of 

 our duty, — to trust only in God's wings, but to 

 use our own too ; that is the progress of David's 

 trust ; it goes on in active diligence. 



Thirdly. It is consummate (as in the last act) 

 in clear, and perfect resignation to God's good 

 pleasure in the event, whatever it be. They trust 

 not in God entirely, and as they ought, that rely 

 only on his power, and dare not submit to his 

 wisdom also ; that would gladly engage Omnipo- 

 tence on their side (and can you blame them?) 

 but then they would manage it their own way, 

 and in methods of their own contriving, and to 

 ends, it may be, far distant from what God hath 

 appointed : as if he would work journey-work 

 under them, and leave them to be masters of the 

 great shop of the world. No; but as Luther said 

 well, when his friend Melanchthon troubled him- 

 self over-much at some cross events; Desinat Phi- 

 lippus esse Rector Mundi: it is God alone, who sits 

 in heaven, and doth whatever pleaseth him. If we 

 be not content with the portion he allots us, but 

 will needs be carving for ourselves elsewhere, or 

 otherwise : or if we be not satisfied with his con- 

 duct of the affairs of the world, but think, with 

 the great Alphonso, that we could mend the sys- 



