., .Ali calamity is from finne. I t.he Lord rejeaed him. The like was Caints cafe, Gen.4. His judgemenr ·was, robe banilh'd from theprtfence of the L~td, which he acknowl~dgeth to oe an infupporrable punifhment' which he was not able to beare. - . VY'h(nany rr~uble is upon th~e, _fl:ick not in the r(e I. ' rind and bark.of it~ but looke rh roHgh it and be- ~ ·yond it, to the inward root of ir; ·look .to finne as · ~ the caufe, and thou !halt find it fo: it may be the •immediate caufe and infirument maybe fome o ~tt· ward tbling, fome encm ie of thy difgrace , fome lickneffe, &c.. but who hath ·permitted- them eo : worke~ is it not the Lord~· 'and what is the motive ·of his permiffion but finne ~ men may haye many ·feverall motives eo do this or that, ··but ·nothing moves the Lord but finne aEd grace. When an enemycomes upon thee, fay nor, this nun is the caufe of this evill,.but the Lord hath fdfered him ,t_o worke,and finne hath occafion'd thi!i fuffering, z Chro71. I z. 5,7. Shifbakwasbnt thevioO, through whofehands God powred out his wrath; fo l may ,(ay, ficknelfe is-but thevi6U, ic is the Lords wrath i.hat is powred out in it. Amend this cg_mmon enour, thatmenare ready to ·feek out the oat urall caufes of -the evil~ that befall them : if it be fick– nelfC),they look.to fuc.hadifiemper indiet, or cold , &c. as thecaufe of it: fo if they mifcarry in any enterprize, what follyand overfight bath been ~ b e caufeof it'!·, Tl:lefe-arebut ~he naturall and :.mm ~; . diate caufes, but Chrifiiaiis fhould look~ ro and feeke outtothefupernat~rall .. When there came a famineupon the land of Iudah for three yeares , , . ~ 2 Sam.
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