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I must add this to the encouragement and comfort of such as can resolve to deliver themselves up to the conduct and direction of Providence, that I never knew any one of those few, who have followed this maxim exactly, that have not found the fruit of it even in this world—as if there had been a secret design of heaven, to encourage others to follow their measures—to depend on God, to deliver themselves up to his care, and to wait till he opens a way for their being employed and settled in such a portion of his husbandry, as he thinks fit to assign them.” Pastoral Care, ch. vii.