Arrowsmith - Houston-Packer Collection BT70 .A776 1659

if Chain ofPrincipleso 381 Exerc. 5. E#XERCITATION 5. The fmeand other attributes of God declaredfrom his providentiall difpenfations, the interchange- ablenefi whereof largely difcourfedofandapplied from Ecckfiaftes 7. 14. A glofs upon Ifaiah chap. io. t r . chearfulnefs a duty in fix reJ eUs cros how to be confidered. §. I, PTHe vicifsitude of divine -dif- penfations ( which I am to treat of next ) is exactly recorded by Solomon , faying, In the day ofprooierity Ec:les be joyfull, but in the day of advert ty confi- der : God aJ bath fet the one over again/ the other, to the end that man lhould finde nothing after him. It is molt clear from hence, that there is an intermixture of difpenfations, adverfe and profperous, in the coutfe ofdivine Providence,and that we may fee much ofGod therein. It will appear in fixparticulars. There are times. I. Wherein things go very ill with a man in refe- rence to his private affairs yet well with the publick, which keepeth him from 7.14;

RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy OTcyMjk=