The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B.

§. 10.

Be not careful for your life, (saith Christ) what yee shall eate, or what ye shal drinke, nor yet for your body, what yee shall put on.

Is not the life more woorth then meate? and the body then rayment? Behold the foules of the heauen, for they sow not, ney∣ther reape, nor carry into the Barnes: yet your heauenly father feedeth them: Are yee not much better then they?

Which of you by taking care, is able to adde one cubite vnto his stature? And why care yee for raiment? Learne, how the Lil∣lies of the fielde do grow: they labour not, neither spinne: Yet I say vnto you, that e∣uen Salomon in all his glory, was not aray∣ed like one of these.

Wherefore, if God so clothe the grasse of the fielde, which is to day, and to mor∣row is cast into the ouen, shall hee not doe much more vnto you, ô ye of little faith?

Take no thought therfore, saying: what shall we eate? or what shall we drinke? or where-with shall we be clothed? (For after all these things seek the Gentiles,) for your

heauenly Father knoweth that yee haue neede of all these things. But seeke ye first the kingdome of God, and the righteous∣nesse thereof, and all these thinges shall be ministred vnto you.

Notes

• Math, 6, 25, 26, 27, &c.