Vse. This may serve to admonish us, to take heed, that we doe not deprive our selves of this great priviledge by evill doing.
Doctrine 13. God is a faithfull protector and defender of those that commend their soules unto him.
Reason 1. Because it is easie for him to preserve our soules, as it was heretofore to make them: and in this respect he is called in the text, God the Creator not the Preserver.
2. Because it stands upon his glory to do this.
3. Because the fidelity and truth of his promises requires as much.
This may serve to comfort us in all straits and adversities: Let them commend their soules under a faithfull Creator, saith the Apostle.
Chapter V.
Verse 1. The Elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an Elder, and a witnesse of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed.