4,36 A chain of Principles. Aph. 6. I I I. By danger. there is a preferva- tion from greater evils by lets. No poyfon, but providenceknoweth how to make an antidote;fo Iona') was fwal. lowed by a whale, and by that danger kept alive. 7ofep') thrown into a pit, and afterwards fold into Egypt, and by there hazards brought to be a nurfing father to the Church. Chryfoflome excel- riamm 2G.npe- lently, Fides in periculis fecura efl, infecu- rz impf in afatt, ritate periclitatur. Faith is endangered by fecurity, but fecure in the midft of danger, as Eflhers was, when the raid, If Iperifb, l perifh. God preferveth us, not as we do fruits that are to Taft but for a year, in fugar ; but as flefh for a longvoyage in fait, we muff expert in this life much brine andpickle, be cauleour heavenly father prefervethus as thofe whom he refolveth to keep for ever,in and by dangers themfelves. Pauls thorn in the flefh which had much of danger and trouble in it was givenhimon purpofe toprevent pride, which was a greater evil. Left 1, raid he,
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