CHAPTER XIV.

_That all our care is to be cast on God._

_Christ._ SON, suffer me to do with thee what I please: I know what is expedient for thee.

Thou thinkest like a man; thou judgest in many things as human affection persuadeth thee.

_Christian._ Lord, what thou sayest is true. Thy care for me is greater than all the care that I can take for myself.

*For he standeth very totteringly, that casteth not his whole care upon thee.

Lord, so that my will may remain right and firm towards thee, do with me whatsoever shall please thee.

For it cannot but be good, whatsoever thou dost with me.

2. If it be thy will I should be in darkness, be thou blessed; and if it be thy will I should be in light, be thou again blessed.

*If thou vouchsafest to comfort me, be thou blessed; and if thou wilt afflict me, be thou equally blessed.

_Christ._ Son, such must be thy disposition, if thou wilt walk with me.

Thou must be as ready to suffer as to rejoice.

Thou oughtest to be as willing to be poor and needy, as full and rich.

3. _Christian._ Lord, I willingly suffer for thee whatsoever thy pleasure is shall befall me.

I will receive indifferently from thy hand good and evil, sweet and bitter, delightful and sorrowful, and give thee thanks for all that befalleth me.

*Keep me from all sin, and I will neither fear death nor hell.

So thou dost not for ever cast me from thee, nor blot me out of the book of life, what tribulation soever befalleth me shall not hurt me.