Mofes hisSelfe=dentdll: 113 Ifyou readthrough thewhole Book of God, you Mall finde that the plea- lures of profperity have been the grea_ *eft°Cinare, few of Gods fervants have pafl'ed through that condition without difhonour, but theeflarc of adverfrie bath ever provedmoft fife; feldomeas nyofG 'xis fervants, but haVe been bet- tered by it. We read of Mannas Exod. P 6.2r. that it Was melted with the Sun, butitcould endure the heat of fire, for they baked Cakes ofit :°ihds it is with many men,fil-gey are melted,rnanygood things in them vacZifh`and come to no. thingby the heat ofprofp;ritr, whom the fire of adverficycannot hurt but is cfCftll-t:o them; - r Ifa Man hath overcome the delights ofthe world, 'fieehath`overcorrle the great hindefancf..,ib thewaies of godli- neffeiehegree"; danger ofApoafiethat whichcaufes fo many thoufands tofai, and ro forfake God 'arid his bleffed ovait's : fuel a foulebathgot over the great 'awnMing ;block;át which fo ma- ny thimble, andfall, and break them- (elves by,Ezeck.30 ao.l will lay aflmrnm bling block,faith theLord. vatabitrehis Not(
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