CHAP. 9. ofWifedome,&c. The fecond confequence is, that all things turnevtato our good : We know, faith the c Apoflle to the Rommel, That to them that louse God, all things works together to good. In which refpe6t hee faith in d another place , All things are lours, whether life, or deaths or thingsprefent, or things to come, &c. To declare this more particularly : Firfl,The calamities and troubles of this life, arenot now any punifhment of fin vnto vs, which is all borne in Chrif+; but fatherly chatlifements for our amendment; whereunto that fentence of the Apoflle, Romanes 8.28. more fpecially driueth. And this is the Couetaant and promife QfGod, P%a1.89.31, 3 2,3 3, 34 If bldformes for- fake my Law, andwalke net in myStatsstes,&c. I willvifit their tranfgrefans with the Rod, and their iniquitie with ffripes : but my k ndnefJe 1 will not put from bim, norfalfafae my Faith. . Sccondly,Dcath it felfe hath loft his fling, and the Graue his vi&orie. Being nomore fearefull and terrible, but the gate of hope, and a fweet and pleafant paffage veto life and immortalitie : In fo much as knowingthe nature of it to bee changed from a punifhment of finne, which properly it is vnto a good andhappie thing, wee come now to defire it , and to with for it : Phil.i.23. Idefire to bee *dried, andto bee with L'hrift. Wherefore, I.Cor. 3.22. death is faid to be ours, and to ferue for our good. And to the a Hebrewes , that Cbrif#by his death Beth /et vs free from all feareofdeath. Hence arifeth the f Apafles holy triumphing ouer it , ODeath where is shyfling? O Graue, where is thyvittorie? Thirdly, Our verie fumes , by the wonderful! Good- neffe ofGod,andhis admirable and vnfpeakeable Wife- dome,who bringeth light out ofdarkeneffe,ferue for our further flrengthening and incouragement vntogood. For, firf}, they tend to manifeft our owne weakeneffe andcorruption , and to makevs more watchfull in time ICk4. t4 515 whereby all things, c Rom,8.a8 . d z.Cor.3.ix,aa not the cala= minesonely and troubles of this life. and'alCo death it (elfe, e Heb,t,z4,r f but euen our very lins turne uoto our gòod:
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