35 2 That ye way be able tofland. we cannot run from it, fo not bear up before it, and oppofe the force which will be made againft us, except clad with Ar. mour. Thefe would afford feveral points, but for brevity we fhall lay them together in one Conclution. 0000044014400000:47M049000 Doti. CHAP. VI. Sherveth that the day of agirgiion is evil, and in what relpeEis, as alp) unavoidable, andwhy to be prepared for. T behoves every one to arme and prepare hi mfelf for the e- vil day of affliction and death, which unavoidably he muft confliawith. The point bath three branches. Fiat, the day of afIlidion anddeath is an evil day. Secondly, this evil day is unavoidable. Thirdly, it behoves every one to provide for thisevil day. Firft of the firft branch, the day of affilaion, efpecially death is an evil day. Here we muff Phew how afflidion is evil, and how not. Fiat, it is, not morally or intrinfecally evil, if it were evil in this fenfe; Firft, God could not be the author of it; his nature is fo pure, that no fuch evil can come from him, any more then the Sunnes light can make night. 'hut this evil of affii6ti- onhe voucheth for his own aft, erfgainfl this family do I devife an evil, Mic. 3. 2. yea more, he impropriates it fo to himfelf, as that he will not have us think any can do us evil betide hi mfelf. 'Tis the Prerogative he glories in, that there is no evil in the City, but it is of his doing, Amos 3.6. And well it is for the Saints that t heir croffes are all made in heaven, they would not elfe be fo fitted to their backs as they are. But for the evil of lin, he difownes it with a ftriet charge, that we lay not this brat, wlach is begotten by Satan upon our impure hearts, at bis door
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