Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 6:27
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Matthew6:27
27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit to his stature?
How Vain a thing is it to distract your selves with Anxious thoughts, about your Body, and your Life? all your thinking will not add a Cubit to your Stature; as your Being, and Existence deriveth from God, so the increase of your Stature dependeth upon him; likewise he maketh the Child to grow to the just Proportion which he hath intended him, and beyond that he cannot pass. If Gods Blessing be necessary to this, and so necessary that no thoughts, no means, will add any thing without the Divine Blessing, what reason have you to take any such thoughts, as you cannot expect he should bless to their desired Effect and Issue?
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