The Favour of God obtained by Wifdom. 125 bad a condition with refpef to the affairs of S E R M. this life as the wicked ? Ecclef. ix. i, 2. The V righteous, and the wife, and their works, are in the hand of God; no man knoweth love or hatred by all that is before him. All things come alike to all; there is one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good; and to the clean, and to the unclean ; to him that facrificeth, and to him that facrfceth not ; as is the good, fo is thefinner, andhethatfwearcth, as he that jeareth an oath. Nay, it is often found in experience, that when wickednefs is triumphant, and the proud are counted hap- py, the molt eminently religious fuffer cruel perfecution ; the apoflles were fet forth as examples fuffering all manner of adverfity and tribulations, counted the off -fcourings of all things, and the filth of the world. This objetion hath been often advanced againft the equity and wifdom of provi- dence, and as feeming to prove that the affairs of this world are under no intelligent direäion, but left to blind chance or ne- ceßity ; and taking it in its whole compafs, it would require a large confideration; but I (hall at prefent only examine it with a view to the point before us, that is, I will Chew that it is not conclufive againft the
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