1 Chronicles 14

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. XIV.—No man hath such sufficiency of his own as not to wed the help of his neighbours. Let me therefore be thankful for the assistance: but let my sufficiency be of God. It is pleasant for the godly discern God’s hand, even in their earthly settlements. And all advancement ought to be considered as intended for usefulness,—for the glory of God, a good of mankind. Rarely do even good men prosper in worldly things, without waxing secure and too indulgent to the flesh. Little ease indeed must be expected in this world to the church of Christ, or to the souls of his people. But if we acknowledge the Lord in all our ways, he will direct our paths, and make us more than conquerors. Carefully must we attend to the directions of his work or even motions of his Spirit and providence: and, depending on his conduct and strength, we may gird up our loins, gird on our armour, resist the devil, and make him to flee from us. If God deliver my corruptions into my hand, let me all inflamed with holy zeal, burn them up, and mark the strongest detestation of idolatry, and every monument of it. And let Jesus have all the glory:—his name only be exalted, and his glory fill the whole earth