Arrowsmith - Houston-Packer Collection BT70 .A776 1659

,.1M111111111 34 1 Chain ofPrinciples. Aph. grefs in Divinity, then in the Dhole courfi of my life before. §. 5. Secondly by infufing and ex- citing a principle of Chriflian pati- ence, which is therefore able to lup- port and ftrengthen the heart when Philofophical Stoical patience cannot .do it ; becaufe it felf is ílrengthened from fuchdivine Topicks, as Philofo- phy knows but little, if any thing, of. I (lull inflance in two, The pains of hell deferved by us and the pains of Chrift endured for us. Well may the confiderationof Hell-torments due to us all , as being by nature children of wrath, conduce to the working of pa- tience in us under thefe petty fuffer- ings in comparifon. For what are thefe rods to thofe fcorpions ? A leaver to thofe everlailin.g turnings? The flone or gout to that fireand brim.flone? A lick-bed to Hell, where the fit never Mark 9,44. goeth off, the fire nevergoeth out,the worm never dyeth ? So all() when upon our hods of licknefs we think of that gar- den.

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