when wehe exercifedwithmany er long afflict-lions. 337 bebroken, foit is withour rebellious nature. Learning tels the Phyftian, that in healing fomc bodily difeafes the patient mull be kept fo low, thathe muff be almoti pi- ned with want before a fpringofbetter bloodcan be pro- Jo b.; ;.17,24 cured,Faith infiruceth, that God is as it were forced to If1 1O7I2., calf man upon the bed of forrow; till his daycs draw to- j 7'ta° wards theburiall, and his bonesbegin to clatter, that he might hide, that is, fuppreffe and remove his pride, and cure the diflempers of the foule. Ouratflic`iions are many and divers,becaufe our corrup- tions are many and ofdiverskindes, & filch as are not ex- pelled with one purgation.lf one medicine fit not our fore, will wenot feekeanother. W hat Father will not ufe many remedies tohelpe the infirmities of his Child; ifonedoe no good ? Our heavenly Father keepes us in a daily courfe ofphyficke, now withone thing, now with another, becauíewe profit not with anyone alone.When aft-he-lions are growneardinary,and ufuall, they move the leíle, becaufe they be familiar ; therefore God is pleafed to alter and change his medicines, that they might worke more kindly. Andas it is necefl'ary that affliftions be lfrong and di- vers, fo alto that they beof long continuance : for rowen diíeafes are not haf ily removed,nor old fores quickly hea- led. As ffaines long felled in a cloth, require much fcow-` ring and longwhiting:fo doethe evills whichhavedeepe- lyeaten into ourfoule. In others we may behold what is needefull forour felves.The Pofierity of Ifraellendured G in z ;. z ;. tryall foure hundred yecres. Theelder people of God were all led captive feventy yeares. By woefull experi- Dan.9.a. eace every Godlyman may findc,that beingnewly taken out of the furnace, he flandeth inneede to be refined a- gaine. Be our afífic°tions of never fo long continuance in this life, weare well allured, they fhall not preffeus lon- ger then fin=doth harbour in our bofome : And if faith benot overcome and vanquifhed with dayly and con- tinuali confliis again(} corruption , why fhould it taint Z under
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