396 Aph. . Inter vincula cRrn.facis ebiY'lf'igi, Cha- plet. Panilrar, .1Cheun ofPrinciples. in the ways of the Lord-mould help to bringothers in lovewith religion, See. Acis 9.31. and Either 8. the two laft verres. r , rfit fr 1o1 , 4. 7. Fifthly, . Endure afrli&ions fo as in the dayof adverfity duly to cone fder the Nature Authour and Ends of Crofl'es. 1. The Nature of thofe afflietions that befall men in Chrif .They arenot . from vindicative juflice which is wholly removed from fuck by the me- diationof him in whom they have be leeved and fo not formally punifh -. ments : but from fatherly difcipline, whereby it cometh to pafs that al_. though the matter be the fame, there is as much difference between the fuffer ingsof beleevers, and ofungodly per- fons out ofChrifl, as there is between the cords wherewith an executioner pinioneth his condemned malefa- ¿tour, and thole wherewith the indul- gent Chirurgion bindeth his patient; the ones deign being to kill,the others to
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