Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.
Ver. 19. Commit the keeping] As a precious depositum. So did our Saviour both in his lifetime,1 Peter 2:23, and at his death, Luke 23:46. So did Stephen and all the holy martyrs after him. Archbishop Cranmer often repeated these words in the flame, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." A certain Spanish monk that stood by and heard him, ran to a nobleman there present, and cried out that Cranmer died in great desperation, ratus desperationis fuisse voces, as conceiving those to be words of despair.
As unto a faithful] Who will rather unmake all than we shall miscarry. And doth still manage all occurrences to the glory of his name and the good of those that trust in him,Psalms 124:8 .