Selfi/b reproofof Separation. 341 infirmityof judgement may appear in it. A true mother that knoweth her child is like to thrive better by a nurfes milk than by her own, will be fo far from hatred or envy either at the nurfe or child, that fhe will confent, and be thankful, and,pay.the ,nurfe. Solomon made it the fign of the falfe mother, that could bear thedividatur, the hurt of the child for her own commodity; and of the true mother , that Ike had rather lofe her commodity than the hild "fhouldfuffor. And Paul giveth God thanks that Chrif' was preached, though it was by them that did it in "¡rife and envy , to otdd afflillion to his bonds. Phil. z. He is not wor- thy ofthe name of a Phyfician , who had rather the patients health were deplorate , than that he Mould be healed by another who is preferred before him. If TEl knew that man by whom the falvatíon of my flock were like to be more hap- pilypromoted than by me (whatever infirmity, oftheirs might be the caufe) I should think my felf a fervant of Satan the envious enemy of fouls., ifI were againft it. CT
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