184 _, ___ A_..:.P __ c_a_la_m_ity~u__,fi!._r_om_.'Lfi_tt_m-_e~---- . V[e 3• LeJrne, thJt if you would remove t-he croffe, yo:.t mull. .remove the finne firfi. You may ob-· ferve .ir indifeafes, that twenty medicines may be ufed,_ and y~t if you hit n~t right.up'o'n thecaufe of the,dtfeafe, the.patient ,is never. the better; but if that be removed, the fymptoines prefentlyvanilh: fe> wheafome croffe is upon us, we fet our heads, · , andhands, an-dfriends aworke to remove ir, but all in vaine,, whilfi we hit not the caufe, ·and t_hat is finne, whichwhilft it continues, the croffe will continue• . · The reafon why our peace and profperiry is en– tertained with fo maGy.croffesand troubles is, be~ caufe our lives are·interwoven with fo many ·fins. Thecaufe ofGods unevennelfe.inhisdifpenfarions of his mercy towards thee, is the unevenneffe of thy carriage towards him. Hail: thou a health– full-body, a fureefiate, many friends~ Think not that thefe ihall [{!cure thee: fee .&daTM in paradife, S•/omon in bis glory, DAviJ on his mountaine, which he thought made firoog; and you lhall fee AdAm , ·when finne had made a breach upon hir.JJ once, qt:Jic.ldy made mHerabk; and finne bringing jn uponSAlo"!onan army·of troubles after it; ·and upon DAv/aln the height, fin bringing in upon him the hazzard of his kingdome, tlt.e rebellion of his fonne: finne in a mans beft eftate:makes him mife-– rable, andgrace in theworll: ell:ate makes a man happy. :F~tul witha good confciencc was happy in prifon, D~tviti througP, faith . Was ·-happy ·at 1 Zigl4g. . .: · . · ' · '. . ! oN efl. . But youwill fay, how·i.sir) that calamities thusl follow!
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