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Christianity not only instructs us in our duties; it also provides for our comfort. The precepts of Christ in this passage evidently tend to our happiness. All anxious care is here forbidden; all uneasy fear respecting the future; all distrust of the good Providence of God. The world is full of perturbations: to-day, we dread one evil; to-morrow another.—at one time we are anxious about some friend, or relation; at another, we ourselves are threatened by sickness, or some other adversity. We do not enjoy the comforts of the present hour, because we dread the morrow: and life is spent perhaps in the anticipation of evils, which, after all, never afflict us.

Henry Thornton — Henry Thornton, M.P., Family Prayers, and Prayers on the Ten Commandments, &c., to which is added A Family Commentary upon the Sermon on the Mount, edited by Rt. Rev. Manton Eastburn, D.D. (New York: Sheldon and Company; Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1860), Family Commentary, XXXV, pp. 297–298

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Henry Thornton, M.P., Family Prayers, and Prayers on the Ten Commandments, &c., to which is added A Family Commentary upon the Sermon on the Mount, edited by Rt. Rev. Manton Eastburn, D.D. (New York: Sheldon and Company; Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1860), Family Commentary, XXXV, pp. 297–298
Henry Thornton, Henry Thornton, M.P., Family Prayers, and Prayers on the Ten Commandments, &c., to which is added A Family Commentary upon the Sermon on the Mount, edited by Rt. Rev. Manton Eastburn, D.D. (New York: Sheldon and Company; Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1860), Family Commentary, XXXV, pp. 297–298 (archive.org) - Henry Thornton, M.P., Family Prayers, and Prayers on the Ten Commandments, &c., to which is added A Family Commentary upon the Sermon on the Mount, edited by Rt. Rev. Manton Eastburn, D.D. (New York: Sheldon and Company; Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 1860), Family Commentary, XXXV, pp. 297–298
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