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V
t
R.
Io.
EplJefians,Chap.6.
735
obferve hence,
that
when
times
of
temptation
come,
toe
mutt
looke
forma-
ny
things
wherein
we are ta'be
tryed.
'Having
finned
all
things, we
muff
not
looke
to
have done
:
when fomeone trouble
is
outwraftled,
one
woe
paft,
two
follow,
afwell
in
perfonall
as
publike vifitarions,
Apoc.
9.
12 .lob
when
God brought
the
cvill dayes
onhìm,how
many
things
one
in
the
necke
of
another,
did exercife hime changes,armies
of
for-
row
did befet him
job
a
o.
17.Wherforebroughteft
thou me out
of
the
wombe
oh that
I
had perifhed
and
no
eye had feen me! So
Chrift
:
the
devilcame to himwith
a
three-foldtempration,and then gave back
but
for
a
feafon.
The
particular
evill day
is
defcribed
thus,
Ecclefiafies,
12.2.
that
after
raine
commethclouds that
is,
it
is
like
this
April
weather,
as
one
fhower is unburdened, another
is
brewed
:
even
as in
the
evill
day, whenGod doth mutter
his
judgements againtt
the
wic-
ked,
toconfume them, God bath
a
pir, feare,
feare;
as
Efay
14.
17.
Or
as Ames 5.
r9.
as
ifa
man
did
flee
from
a
Lyon,
and
a
Beare
meet
him; or
went into
the
houfe, and
leaned his hand on
the wall,
and a
ferpent bit
him; that is, he hath
one
evill
in
the necke
of
another
to
de-
{troy
them
:
fo in
the
day
of
temptation
he
hath many
exercifes,
that
%
his
children
may
be throughly tryed,
as
gold
in
the
furnace.
There-
Y
fore men mutt notthinke, when one evill
is
paff, all
their bitterncffe
is
over;
as
children,
if
they have
had
their payment, thinke all lure for
a
time
after:
neither yet
muff we
be fo fhort
of
fpirit,
as
to wax
weary
when
God
dealeth with
us,
though
we
like
weather- beaten birds
would
fun
our
wings
quickly
:
for, weare
all like
Ephráim,Ho
f.
to.
rl
:'
we love
to
threfh, but
endure not
the
yoake
eafily.
Again
there being
y
2;
many
trials
in
our
evill
dayes
which
abide
us,we
have neede
to
beg at
Gods hand, that
he
would teach
us
to
deny our felves,
that
he
would
fl
rengthen
us
in
the
inner
man,
to
all
long
fufferance
with
joyfulneffe.
Thirdly,
we
mutt
learne
to
reckon on
the
worft: the belt
will fave
y.N
i;
it felfe.
It
is
good tothinke;
[
fee
where
the
hand
of
God hath begun
with
me,
I
know not where
it
will end
with
me.
Caft
the worft; fhort
{hooting
here may lofe ail.
That
is
a worthy
refolution
of
Job
in his
day,
13.
15.
If
thou
wilt
kill
me, yet will I truft
in
thee.
He
that
be-
leeveth,
maketh not
hatte.
Delï:
Laft
ly,
we fee,
that
we
mall
not
only
have
care to
outwra
tilt
tolls
for
the
preterit, bat
to
perfèvere
after, that
is;
hold
our
owne
in
grace,
yea
have
grace increafed; (hewing
it
ftlfe
in
a
holy defiance
of
all enmity,
if
the
heure
of
death
be
at
band : or
infurther
refolution
to encounter
new
enmi-
ties,
if
life
continue.
We
faint
not,
faith
the Apoftle,
nay we are
more
then conquerers,
Rom,
8.
37.
Hereto mutt
be recalled
the glorious ex-
ulting,
Bono.
8. 38.
1
am perfwaded,
that
neither
life,
nor death,
be.
I have
fought
a
fight, what
is
laid up
for
me
but
a
crowne
of
Righte-
oufneffe
a
And
while
life
continueth, we
muff
be ttrengthened for
further refitfance,
t
Pet.
5.
to.
And
the'
God
of
all
grace, which hath
called
is
to
his eternall glory by
Jefus
Chrift,
after
that
ye have
fuffef
red
a
little,
make you perfect, confirme,
ftrengthen,
and ffablilh
you
Where,
he maketh our confirming
and
ffrengthening
of
-us,
ollow