el Chain ofPrinciples. 389 be under preffures.We learn by ficknets Exem 5.2 to prize health, Sc by reftraint to value libertie. Acalm is much more pleafing to us after a tempeft ; and the fhining forthof the Sun after an eclipfe. It is therefore anadofmuch mercy in God thus to intermingle favours & croffes, left by a confrant courfe of the former, we fhould growwanton and effemi- nate, or by continuance of the latter, fottifh and frupid. III. To keep up and maintainhis re- (pe& in the world.God will be known to be the SovereignLordofall perlons and things ; the great difpofer ofall af- fairs in fuch a way as feemeth belt to himfelf,& therefore gives out bleffings and croft-es interchangeably, foas man Iháli be at no certaintywhat toexpe&, but live in a con frant dependance on him, whokeeps thedifpofal ofprofpe- rity and adverfity in his ownhands, to the end that man fhould finde nothing certain but this, that there is a, great un- certaintyof future events. Wherefore, §. 5. Firfl,
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