./ (z6) I all good things WGrk together for the hurt of Sinners: their Peace :· hurts them, their plenty hurts · them, their pleafure .hurts them: yea , both t.heir . pr0fperity ,,and adverfity ; t,heir plency , and their poverty ; their pldfure, and.their trouble ;•their ho– nour and difgrace,and every thing that befalls them, turns ~o their ,prejudice; Their profperity deltroys them : their Table is their fnare ; their pleafures are their plagues; and their very ptinitbmencs are turn.. ed in~o fin : every thing that befalls them·, heightens and hardens them in their wickednefs, and rip~ns them for vengeance. God is not with them , and therefore J.l0thing profpers with them. (;od is with hi$ Saints ,. and therefore nothing comes ami[s to them , buc all for their greater advantage: Chri.. fhans,this is your portion, andyonr pccu!z"ar, vyhere.. in the men of thi~ World fua.Il neither partake with you, nor be ever able to,deprivc you.of ic. · '·4. Ho~ all things {lqaii work for their good: in fpeci,ll , how fual! c·he evil thing.r, the Sufrerings of this life be for. theit good : How can this be ? Mufl: we disbelieve our Senfes, lay down our .Reafons, ere we can beli'eve the Scriptures ? .Mull: ,we call evil , good ; and good.,. evil ? Mull count dark– ne[s light , and fight darknefs ?Is pleafure pain, and pain plea[ure ,? 1s Iofs gain , and gairi 1 lo[s ? Is eafe torment, .and torment eafe ? Doth l\eiigion make ~hings cdfe to be what they are, and to be what they are not? or ac kaft, MoHwe believe, that dark– nets is the Mother oflight, that good is the D,-:ug_h– ter of evil ?Can we gather grapes of thorns, or flgs of thifiles ? Can d:nknefs give light, or deathit felf bring forth life? ~tuft we fay, that contraries no longer dd~roy, but produce each other , and that the · · womb
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