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[ 881] The providence of God, to be eyed at all times.
WHen Lazarus was dead,* 1.1 his two Sisters, Martha and Mary came to Christ with a doleful noyse, and pittifull complaint, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not dyed, (saith one); Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not dyed, (said the other) Ioh. 11. 21, 32. And is not this the note and common language of the world, when a Man is dead? if such a Phisitian had been here, if he had been let blood, if he had not taken such a potion, or eat of such meat, or lived in such a ••oggy air;* 1.2 if he had not done thus or thus, or so and so, he might have been a live man to this day; not considering with Iob, that the dayes of Man are de∣termined, and his bounds appointed which he cannot passe, the time, the place, and every circumstance of his dissolution is decreed from all Eternity, that one Man dyes in the field, another in his bed; one at Sea, another on the shore; one in this manner, another in that; this, and all this, it is fore-ordained in Heaven, the hand of God is in all, and he it is that having brought us into the World at his plea∣sure, will take us hence at his own appointment.