Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 6:26

26 Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better then they?

God takes a care of all his Creatures. For Example, consider the Fowls, and those not the Tame Fowls about your Houses, but the Fowls of the Air, for whom the House-wifes Hand doth not provide, neither hath God sitted them for any Labour, by which they can procure their Lively-hood, nor doth he require any such thing of them, nor do they labour, yet their Creator (who is your Heavenly Father) feedeth them. You have much more reason to trust in God, if you could not Labour, being hindred by his Providence, for you are more excellent beings then sensible Creatures, and you have a further Relation to God, then that of Creatures to the Creator, for God is your Heavenly Father, you are in the order of Nature, and especially considering that God is your Father much better than they.

Marginal references: Job 38.41. [illegible: 1 letter]sal. 147.9. [illegible: 1 letter]uke 12.24.