put into mine: Ezr 7:27; 1Co 15:10; 2Co 3:5, 2Co 8:16; Phi 2:12-13; Col 1:29; Jam 1:16; Whatever good motion is in our minds, whether prudent or pious, we must acknowledge it to come from God; for every good gift and every good work are from above; he gives knowledge, he gives grace. What is commonly called human prudence, ought to be ascribed to the direction of Divine Providence. He who teaches the husbandman discretion, Isa 28:26, as certainly over-rules the deliberations of senators.