935 / 1054
Principles
for
füffering.
ing,
principle
:When
God
gives me
the
ufe
of
a
creature,
and
I enjoy
it
in
God,
in
the
love and favour
of God,
then
there's'
force
good in
it,
or
if
I
can
any way
make
of
of
it to improve
it
for
the honour and
praife of
God,
then
there's comfort
in
it
indeed,
but
now
take
away
thefe
two things in
any
creature
that
any
man
in
the world injoyes,
and
there
is
no
good
at
all
ir,
its
but
a
meer
empty
(hell
:
As
thus, Thou
haft fuch
and
fuch
comforts
in the
creature,but
doff thou injoy
any
thing
of
God
in
them,
or
dolt
thou injoy
them
for
God
?
then they
are
good,
but
without this, they are nothing but
emptinefb;
there's nothing
but
wind in
them:
Nov
then.
if
I
be call'd
to
flitter
in
the
caufe of
Chril
:
This
is
as
ir
were to me
a
loud
voice
from
Heaven: This creature that
now
you
are
call'd to
part
withal'
in.witneffe
to
my
truth,
you can injoy
me
no fur-
ther in
it,
nor
you can
improve
it
no
further
in
the infoyment
of
ir,
but
in
the
parting
with
it,
now
that
that
had
a
goocine(fe
in
it before
in
the
injoyrnent of
it,
h
-
h-
-asov
the goodneífe
ifr
it
in
parting from
it
that's
a
fl
;t
principle,
and
were we
principled aright
in
this,
how
eafhe
were
it
to part
with
any
creature
-
comfort
in
the
caufe
of
Chrift.
Seventhly,
The
feventh fuffering
principle
is
this,
There's
nofutferings
of
any
of
the
Saints
that they
are
call'd unto
at
any
time,
but they
are
ordered
by
God
for
the time
öf
the
fuffering,
for
the kind of the
fuffering,
the continuance
of
the
fuffering,
the infrunsents
of the fuffering,every thing in
every
fuffering,
it
is
ordered
by
God
before hand,
determined
by
him how
it
(hail
be,that
at
fuch
a
time
fuch
a
man
(hall
futfer,'
and
not
fuch
a
man, and by
fuch
means and not
other
means,
and
in fuch
a
kind,
and
fo
long
to
continue
and
no
longer;You
know
that
in
the
Revelation,
Satan
fhall cafi
lone
of
you
into
Pri
fon
for
ten dayes
:
He
(hall
caflbut
fame
of you, not all, and
he
(hall
but
cat
you
into
pri
fon,
and
not
take
away
your lives,
andthis {hall
be
but ten
dayes
neither
:
Now
this confiderari-
on is a
mighty ffrengthning confiderarion
to
rho
ft.4::ings of
the Saints,
as
it
was
to Chrifi, that
all
his
futferings
were
de-
termined
before
hand
;
It
was a
fireng
fining
to
him,
fo
cer-
tainly
it
is
to the
Saints
to
confider
that
all thexr.fttfferin
;s
-are
deter
557