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ER.I1.
Epheflans,Chap.I.
123
light out
of
darknc(fe, being able
to
doe
goad
of evill;
and it
is
juft
in
him
to permit, where
he
is
not bound to hinder.
Seeing
then Gods
effeétual1
worke
is
in
everything,
let
us
labour
to
behold
his
worke,
and
to
praife
him
in it
:
It
is
the workmans glory to
have his
Art difcerned. Looke on the
fouleft
thing that
ever
was
com-
mitted, looke
at
Gods worke
in
it,
it
is
moll:
holy,
as
that
killing
the
Lord
of
life,
Lids
4.
21.
That
looke
as
it
is in
thofe
double
two
fa-
ced
piftures, looke
at
them on one fide you
fee
moniters, on the other
beautifull perlons
;
So
it
is
in
thefe wicked
workes, the
fame
that
man
worketh finfully,
God worketh
moft holily.
This
is
our
comforr,that nothing
can be
in
which.ourheavenly fathers
handworketh not
:
Earthly Parents, though provident,
may
have
their
children meet with many cafualties, which
they
doe not intend before,
but helpe when now they
fee
them brought about
;
but nothing
can
be in
which
our fathers hand
mutt not have
a
chiefe ftroake
be-
fore it can
come to
paffe.
This
mutt quiet
us, even
for times to c6me,
our
fecuritie
being
in
it ;
yea,
for whatfoever
is
befallen
us, we
muff
fuftaine our felves even from
hence, the
effeétuall
working
of
our
God
is
in it ;
we
mull
hence, I
fay, fuftaine our felves
from being fwallowed
up
of
griefe;
we
mutt not
prevent hereby due grieving and humbling
our
felves
under the hand
of
God. Hold
this for ever,
that nothing
can
fall
out to us,
in
which
is
not the
effeCtuall
working
of
our
heavenly
father.
We
cannot folidly
feare
God,
if
evill may befall
us
with which
he
is
not willing,
in
which he hath
no
hand.
Wecannot
have
that
pati-
ence
in
our evils, nor
that
comfortable
fecuritie
for times
to
come.
Nei
ther
let any excufe
his
wickedneffe hence, for
Gods worke doth
leave
a
man
liberty to be
a
caufe,
by
counfell,
of
this
or that he doth
;
fo
that
thou
doeft
goe
again(' Gods will advifedly, when he worketh
his
will
in
thee
:
And
if a
man
doe execute one malicioufly,
his
murther
is
not
excufed, becaufe the Judge
by
him
doth
take
away the
life
of
the
fame
man moft juftly.
Secondly
obferve; That
what
God worketh or willeth, he doth
it
with counfell
;
though
his will be
moft
juft, yet
we
mull not conceive
of
it,
as
moving meerely from it
felfe,
without
any
thing todireEt.
With
him
is
counted,
with
him isunderffandiag,
lob
12.13.
and Éfay
46.
ro.
Ow), counfell,
faith
the Lord,
fball
f
and.
Even
as
the foot of
the
body
hath
an eye
bodily to
direét
themoving
of
it;
and
as
the reafonablewill
of
man
bath
a
light
of
wifdome to
goe
before
it;
fo
would God have
us
conceive
in
him
felfe,
that the light
of
advifed wifdome
is
with him,
in
whatfoever
he
willeth or worketh This
is
to
be marked ; firft,
that
we may fee
how
all
things befalling
us
are
good
;
for
the Lord bring-
ing
them about according to
his
counfell,
they
feeme
good to
his wife
-
dome.Now
wifdome judgeth nothing
good,but
as
it
is fit
to fomegood
end;
now
that
which
is
fit
for
fome good
end,that cannot but
be
good.
Wherefore
let
us
correft
our thoughts:
In
many things we fuller,
we thinke
other
courfes
would doe
better.
What
is
this, but to
fay, this
befalleth
us
not with
fo
good advifet
What
but to teach God
wife-
M
t
dome,
Y%
1.
They
worke
idem, bt¢
not
adders
Ile
a.
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