/E6 Bodily health and cafe fromTorments. be moved toenquire, what it is that moves you to fuch con-. flancy patience. And why fhould wenot be willing of that condition, in which we do our wafter the bell fervice, what ever the doingof it shall call us ? The commodity of our end isihe chiefell commoditie. 2 . That is the bell condition for us in which we mayhave moll if God. But certainly we may have as muchand ufually more ofGod infiffferitg, efpecially for his caufe, then we can have in profperity ; efpecially when we fin to efcape thefe fuf- ferings. Is it bodily earepr God that you fet moll by ? it will be feen by your choice. If you prefer your eafebefore him,you mull expect to have no better then youchoofe. If you prefer him before your eafe and and profperity, youmull be gladder of God with adverlity and pain , then of profperity and eafe without him. A beat} hathhealthand eafe as well as you,, and yet you will not think him as happy. if you are: torment- ed or lofe your health for Chrift, you lofe nothing but what a Turk or infidel hath, yea but what a beaft hath, asp well as you I But you may have that of God by the advantage of your fuffering, that none but Saints have. And Gods pretence can make a fuffering Rate as tweet as a profperous. And he hathgivenyou ground in his promifes to expell it, Ifa. 43. J, 2, 3. [ When thou paffell through thefire, I Will be with thee ----] (or. ic). 13. [ There bath no temptation taken you, but what A common to man but God is faithfull Who wit not 'offeryou to betempted above that you are able ; blit will with the temptation 41/4 make a way to efeape, that youmay be able to bear it, J. I Pet. 4. 14. [ Ifye be reproached for the name of Chriff,loappyareye : for the fpirit of lory and of God rejleth uponyou : On their part he is evil fpaken of, but on your part he ge glorified] ver. 16. [ If at, man Her 4.1 a Chrijiian , let him not be alhamed, but let himglorifieCod !on thAbehalfjWhat is the Scripture fuller of, then comforting promifes to the filf- ferers for Chriil? To fly from fuch fufferings then, is but to fly from the pretence of God, and our own confolations. 3. At leaft thefe ftifferings further our "Unification ' and mak$ us better. And is not that our bell condition that makes u befi ? Common experierice as well as Scripture may fakisfie us
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