16 VERS.2. .An Expojiti6n, with Notes ther then wait for them, or by their own violences, and mifcarri... -ages, draw jufr hatred upon themfelves. Peters Rule is, Let none of you fuffer as an evil doer, I Pet. 4· IS. We -Iofe the comfott of our futferings when there is guilt in them. Obfer~at. )• 5• Fron: that [Dive:sJ Go~h~th fevcral 'W_~JJ ~herewith to J exercife hu people. Dwers mtfenes .come one mthe neck of ano-– ther; as the lunatique .in the Gofpel fell fometimes ~in the water, fometim~s in the fire; fo God changeth the difpenfation, feme– times in this trouble, fometimes in that. P ~tul gives aCatalogue of his dangers and futferings, 2. Cor. I r. from Verf. 24. to 28. In perils of waters, in perilsofr9bbers, in perils by mine oWn CDNn· try-men, inperils by the heathen, in perils in the wildernefs, in perils in the City, in perils in the fet~t, in perils among falfe bre– thren. Crotfes fddom come fingle. When God beginneth once to try, he ufeth divers ways of tryal; and indeed there is great reafon : !Jivers difeafes mufi have divers re~edies. Pride, Envy, CovetJob le Pfal. 4~ \ oufnefs, Worldlinefs, Wantonnefs, Ambition, are not all cured by the fame phyfick. Such an affliction pricks the bladder ofPride, an-. other checks our deltres that are apt to run out in the way of the world,&c. Do not murmur then if mtferies come upon you, like waves, in a continual facceffion. rob's Meffengers came thick, and clofe, one after anotherj to tell of Oxen, and Houfe, and Camels, and Sons fend Daughters, and all deflro]ed; Mellenger upon Me!Tenger, afld friUwith a fadder fiory. We have divers lu{fs, Tit. 3· 3· and therefore have needof divers tryals. In the fixth of the Revelations, one horfe cometh after aQother,theWhite, thepale,the black._, the red ~ When the fluce is once opened,feveral judgment& fucceed in order. In the fourth of Amo.r the .Prophet fpeaks of blafling, and mildew, andcleannefs of teeth, peflilmce, andwt~r ; all thefe judgments one after another ~ {o Chrifr threatens Jerufalemwithwars, and rum~rs of 'Wars; and addeth, there iliall befamine, and pe{tilences, and ellrthquaf<!s in divers places, Matth. 24. 7· 0 then, Stand in aw, and (in not; when the firft: brunt is over, you cannot fay the bitternefs ofdeath is pafl, other judgments will have their courfe and turn. And learn too from .. hence , That God bath feveral metho~s ·of tryal, Confifcation, Baniiliment,Poverty, ·Infamy, Reproach; Some tryals fearch us more then others: We mull: leave it to his Wifdom to make choyce~ Will-Suffering is as ba~ asWill:iforjhip•
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