Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	great_a	leave_v	see_v	1,529	5	3.1249	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56635	A consolatory discourse perswading to a chearfull trust in God in these times of trouble and danger. By Symon Patrick rector of St. Paul Covent Garden.	Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707.	1665 (1665)	Wing P777; ESTC R216914	13,373	17

or his Vertue leave any thing with him and deposite it in his hands Doth he not rest assured that it will be safe that he will dispose of it as shall be most fitting or that he will improve it for his benefit Do we not see that he ceaseth to trouble himself any further when he hath once secured his goods in this mans keeping that he casts away all care that he his not possessed with fears but saith as we must do of God I know whom I have trusted you do vainly then pretend to trust in the Father of Mercies and as vainly hope for any contentment if you do not thus resign up your selves and all your concernments unto him being fully satisfied that he will do what is most conducing to your good This is the confidence that he expects we will repose in him if we take him for our friend And whatsoever men of fancy may perswade themselves this is a nobler degree of trust in God then to have the particular confidence which they so eagerly aspire unto that he will do this or that This in truth puts the most honour upon him when we relinquish our own particular desires and refer all to his will This is the most certain mark of our believing him to be what he is when we dare thus leave our selves intirely to him that he may do as he pleases with us The times are now very sickly we are all in great danger and know not to what remedies we should fly Death hath fetch away so many round about us that we may fear he will come for us next If we will now act the part of good Christians or if we will have any constant comfort we must all say as David doth What time I am afraid I will trust in thee Let us now refer all to God who knows best what use he hath for his Creatures and where it is most fit to bestow them either in this world or in the other Let us be confident he will dispose us there where it is most necessary and best for us to be And in this confidence we shall find abundant satisfaction both in this and all other things that trouble us It will keep us in perfect peace thus to stay our minds on him Nay I think fit to add that if there be any way to have that which we are naturally inclined to with be it health or plenty or any thing else this is it For doth not a person that is perfectly and without any conditions intruded by us think himself more ingaged and concerned to dispose of what we leave with him not only to our advantage but as near as may be to our hearts desire Do not think then that God is so unkind that he loves to cross us in that which we are inclined to ask after we have submitted it wholly to him Believe that he will deal very tenderly with those who have such an high esteem of him that they ask nothing but that he will do as seems good in his eyes He hath a greater care of these mens good then any others He is more ingaged to them if we may speak in our common phrase and they shall see he will deal very well with them He is much pleased that they leave all to his wisdome and therefore will not fall to let them fare the better for not interposing their own particular desires But if we will be taking upon us to prescribe to him what course he shall take if we behave our selves as if we should be undone unless things go in that one way which we determine and therefore are alwaies sollicitously intreating him for this and that which we fancy nearly concerns our worldly estate then we disoblige him very much It is a sign we would take things out of his management if we could and be glad to have the ordering of affairs in our own power It shews that we are loath to trust him and that we suspect his wisdome and goodness or at least that we have no such feeling of them but that we had rather rely upon our own skill and love to our selves Now how can this choose but render our condition as unsecure as it will make it uncomfortable we can never have any setled peace unless we quietly commit our selves to God nor can we hope for any safety at all which is furthest off from those who so little esteem his will that they prefer their own before it Away therefore with all your cares if you would be happy and cast them upon him for he careth for you 1 Pet. 5.7 Throw them intirely upon him for it is his business to govern the world and not yours Let him see you rest your selves with as composed a spirit on his Providence as if it was in your own hands to do what you list This is the onely way to please him and you will never sure be pleased your selves unless you think that be is so too IV. And now having thus cast your care upon him it must be your care to walk uprightly before him for from such persons you heard he will withhold no good thing It is no part of your work indeed to busie your thoughts about future events but there is something else that lies upon you which is to do what God at present bids you that so you may be alwaies qualified for his favours This is not only a necessary concomitant of our trusting in God but a part of it We must commit our souls or lives to him in well doing as into the hands of a faithfull Creator 1 Pet. ● 19. We must trust in the Lord and do good so shall we dwell in the land and verily we shall be fed Psal 37.3 Great heed must be taken that you leave not out this Ingredient as I may call it of doing good when you are forming your trust in God for the Remedy will be quite spoyled if this be wanting For have you not seen that to trust in God is to take his word to believe that he saith true whatsoever it be that he speaks Now how solemnly hath he told you that his face is against them that do evil to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth that the way of the ungodly shall be turned upside down that the wicked shall fall into mischief And therefore must you not be perswaded that there is no way to be happy in this world or in the other but by following of his counsels and obeying his commands If you trust God you must necessarily govern your selves by this belief If you give any credit to him you must observe those rules whereby he would have you to live And you must resolve that he hath no confidence in God who hopes for his blessing in those waies which he hath said shall not prosper No he confides in his own bold fancy and presumptuous thoughts He contradicts God and gives him the lie He saith in effect that