/ (.Io6) , A1li8:ion~ are God: Family Dif~ipline. Yet mark, . 'tis not, if t·he fuffertng alone will not_prove onr Son-th!p, (tbe Rod is for the fools back, as well as the childs :) b~1t patient fqffering wllJ.,-for _ , 1. Pg,t'1ent (uffering is ~t felf, an evidence of our ~c!o1)tiou: it is the ~:nark of the Lord Jefus upon hs. lf thou flail boch the Came lot, and the fame fpirir, that wat upon Chrifi, thete'ci thy Lords rnark upon thee,wh re~y he.tnarks t hee ou~ for oneofhis own. Men pad need of other tnarks to prove 'them Chri.. ftians,t~itn what the R.od ha-th n1a~e on their backs; . '~s out qu.iet fnbmitting to i~, and that upon GG>– fpel grounds:1 .as hath been before !hewed, that mttib · do it, and this....will be evidence f!}ough. None bite a S.on will eh us fubmic. ~ : . 2. The fuffering fiate of Chriftians, is ordinarily / Jtttended wi~h otherlevidences. Sufftrings will fet patience on W()rk, and paticn~e will fet every other grace on wor~~ ·Whatfoevr Jt be, that finds work for patience, will therein find work for faith , and love, and hope, and felf-deniah . Chriftians never f!ppear fo mu~h believers, fa humble, fo mortified, · es under the Crofs. If ther,e be any faith, or Jqve, or hope in the heart, 't\Vill appear in the dq ofa.d– verfiry. Ifthere-.be any fire under the ~fhes, _throw · Gn warer, and then yoQ fPall hear ir,. when , ic may be, before you could fe~ none there. As So.lomon ~aies, folryJ[o we 'rn~y (ay~ ~ifdom, grace i~ b~und ~P 10 the heart of a cht!d, but the rodqfcorrecbon wtll fetch ic·ou't~ We reldom ~·~ow, ·either llow ba·d, or how goodour hearts are, till they are thus proved~ Thi,l I 4id f.o pr~~e tkee~ ~~cl ~o }tnow ~p~~t fl~ in thi~Jth.eart~ · ' ' ' · ,·_ ~ ~e~d~s. , I 1
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