To Mr. E——.
London, November 8, 1753.
Dear Mr. E——,
MAN appoints, but it is God’s prerogative to disappoint, when disappointments are necessary for our good. But how hard is it to believe this? How apt are we in our haste to say, all these things are against us! But what says Doctor Watts?
Where reason fails with all her pow’rs,
There faith prevails and love adores.——
Come then, my dear Sir, and chearfully give up your Isaac for God. He will be better to you than a thousand creatures.
Leave to his sovereign sway,
To choose and to command;
So shalt thou wond’ring own his way: