11 Chiin of Principles 3$ drefs on this wife, Go to dear brother Fer- Exerc. 3 dinand, endure hard fhip as agood ¡ouldier of 7e,fus Chrift. 4. q.. Next to Grace in point of growth. The rife of grace is fometimes occafionedby a fore difeafe. Dena tells MJ bus us of himfelf, that God was pleated to ,tnciptum, lay the foundation of his C iritual rp`` P`xfix° y p Confilïoni. health in a violent ficknefs which be- fell him at Paris. The growth ofgrace is always promoted whenGod makes ufeof this means. It is not moreufu- al withchildren to íhoot up in length, then with Chriflians to wax taller in grace in or after a ficknefs. See it ex- emplified in the famous Proteftant Divines : Olevian Paid upon his death- bed, In this difeafe I have learned to know Mel. Adam. In aright 'what f n and what the maje fy o f v': m. Theol. 6or. God is. Rollock uponhis /am not afhamed Idem in vices to roes that I never reached too high a .pff d f g pas =8 pitch in the knoîle ge of God as I have attained in this ficknefs. Rivet uponhis, Dauberin i Orar, neb, ex- In the face of tendays fence Ikept my bed, ee fu mn- I have learned more, and made greater pro- eag osiwi F 2 grefs
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