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9. To use honest, well proportioned means allowed, and ap∣pointed by God, with a Trust that God will blesse the same to us, is rather to honour, then distrust God: and tis not a trusting, but rather a tempting of God, when we sit still, and let slip opportu∣nities upon a vain expectation that God will supply us with ex∣traordinarie, unpromis'd helps. Constant experience instructs us, that Promises and other sacramentall obligations have been ever honorably, and profitably made use of for religious, and ci∣vill purposes: they have been sanctified by God himself both gi∣ving, and accepting of them: they have not onely bound man to man, but man to God, and God to man. Therefore to argue against such expedients in this case, upon the strength of such pro∣positions as are generall, and as concludent against all humane expedients in all cases whatsoever, must needs savour of a spirit too litigious, and acrimonious.