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VIII.
II.
DO.
r:
WhatCoever
dotti
befall us
in time,hath
been
purpofed
by
God from
everlaffing.
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Ephe¡ianr,Chap,;.
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R,
H.
and make
to
one
purpofc, was
an
admirable wifdome.
We
therefore remembring
that
in
the
Church God doth
work his
works
of
manifold
wifdome,
muff
let
it
be
a
curbe to licentious
cenfu
ring
ofany of Gods
courfes
in his
Church
:
we
mutt not
when we
heare
ofpredefbnation
and fuch
likc,or
of
his
dealing any wayes
in his
Church,open our
mouthes
against these, like
the dogge
barking at
the
Moonc, but
lay our hands on our
mouthes, knowing that
all
are full
of
wifdome, though we cannot behold the reafon
of
them.
We
muff
acknowledge the wifdome
of
God
in his
dealing
with his
Church
in
generall,or perfonally; if
he
let
his
Church
fall
to
hell,
if
he
now
leave
one people and take
another,if
he let heretics
and
perfecu-
tions come upon
her: fo
perfonally ,
if
we be let fall
into
evill ,
if
he
fometime
leave
us
in
defertion,
fometime acknowledge
and
make
much
of
us, we
mull fay, who
(hall
teach
him wifdome
that
judgeth
the
highest things?
V
E R
S.
I
r.
According
to
the
eternall
purpofe which he purpofed in
Chrifl
lefus enr
Lord.
In
this
verfe
three things
are
contained,
I.
The
ground which we marked before
of
all this is here
fet
downe
to
be
Gods
purpofe.
z.
The
perfon
in
whom this
was
to
be accomplished
,
chrift.
3.
A
description
of
thisperfon from the benefits we have
in
him,
verfe
rz.
Then
we are
to
marke, That
whatfoever doth befall
us
in
time
, the
fame
bath
been
purpofed
to
no by
God
from everlafling.
It
is
true,
be it
good or
evill,
his colenfel
fha!stand,
be
doth whatfoever
ie
his will.
As I
have
purpofed,
fo
fhaRit
come
topaffe,
es
I
have
confrlted, it(hall /land.
Whatsoever
Herod and Pilate
with the
reft did againft
our
Saviour,
it
was before
in
the
purpofc
and
determinate
counfell
of
God;this
we
mull
old for
a certaine and found conclusion,
that
every thing
in
the
world hath and
(hall
fo come to
paf(e
as
God
hach
purpofed and
de-
creed it,
in
that time,
place, manner and end
,
and
by
that
meanes
as.
God
hath appointed.
We
mutt therefore labour to
rife up
and behold
Gods
eternall pur-
pofe
in
all
events we fee,
which
he Both or fuffereth
to
be done; for
it
is a
ground
ofpatience,
as
when
lofeph
did confider
Gods
purpofe
in
that
lewd
fad of
his
brethren,
hee was well pleafed. So
David
was
patient under
all
the revilingsof
shimei;
i
held
my
tongue
and
feid
no-
thing,for
thou
Lord didfi
it.
Again,
in all
good things
we
have, when we
can
fee
that
they were
purpofed to
us
of God from before worlds,
itwill force
us
to
acknow-
ledge
his
moll fatherly
care
:
for looke
as
this
Both
teftify a Parents
care, when before
he
hath children be will provide
this and
that,
pur-
posing it
(if God
(ball give him any) to
his children: fo
it
is
with
God,
if
we can
fee
him
when we had no being, but
in himfclfe
,
purposing
and defigning
every
good thing to
us.
If
this wife
G
od
hath
purpofed all things, then
feare
not, nor
be
ut-
terly;