300 TireEions for getting and keeping till I die. I knowGods Chaftifements are all Pater- nal Punifbments : and that Chriftians (hould fearch and-try their hearts and ways at fuch times ; but not conclude that they re Gracelefs ever the more for beingAmic ed, feeing godchafleneth everyfan *holm he receiveth, Heb. i 2.6, 7. And in fearching after fin it Pelf in your Aftiidions, be fure that you make theWord and not your fufferings, the Rule to difcover how far you bave finned and let Afflitti- ons only quicken you to try by the Word. How many a Soul have I known that by mif-inrerpreting Providences, have in a blind Jealoulie been turned quite from Truth and Duty fuppofing it had been errour and fin ? and all becaufe of,their ttf icons As a foolifh man in his ficknefs accufeth the Taft meat that he ateb.:fore he fell tick, though it might be the wholfomeft that ever he ate, and the difeafe may have manyCaufes which he is Ignorant of. One manbeing fick, a bufie feducïng Papift comes to him ( for it is their ufe to take fuch opportuuitì.es) and tels him , It gods hand upon pots for f orraking or fraying from the Roman Catholick Church ; and God loath fent thin AffiiFlion to bring you home : all your eArnceftors lived and died in this Church, and fo mug you if ever pops *ill be fä .fed. The poor Jealous affrighted firmer hearing this, and through his Ig- norance beingunable to anfwer him, thinks it is even true, and prefently turns Papift. In the farne manner do molt other Seas. How many have the Antinomi- ans and Anabaptifts thus feduced ? finding a poor filly woman ( for its molt common with their ) to be under fad doubts and dìitrefs of foul, one tels her, Pt z Gods hand onyou to co, vin t pogo! errour, anq to bring
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