188 ~ --- Reaf~ 1. 0 f calamitits ;remo'll din Judgement. BecauCe finne is w.orfe than any cr~e. w.:hatfoe:. \ ver. If therefore hee .'takes awJy the crolfe, and leaves the finne behind, it is a figrie thouart a man whom the Lord haces. When aPhyfician take~ away the medicine, and le:wes thed!feafe uncured, it is a Ggne the parries cafe is de[perate;'- or that the . PhyGcianmeanes to.let him periili ~ ·· Rea[. 2 • Becaufe rhe Lord doth nothing in vaine.; if ther· fore an afRiction doth a manno~ood, it rnufi: needs do him hurt ; fort hat whi~h doth neither goodnor hurt, mu(l: ne_eds bee in vaine. That was a property of the Idols of the Heathens ('which are called the vanities of the Heath~n)'that they did neither good nor hurt : And fuch fhould Gods actions bee. Therefore if thec·roffedoth amanno good by hea– linghis finne, it mufi needs do him hurc. You will' aske what hurt<: It cloth £Jiftcare t~d Gehennam) builds thee up to defiruetion. If you fawacor– rafive applyed to the live fl.efh and to eateoutthat, and riot the dead, you would fay it were applyed forlmrt : So ifyou fee an,affiietion that workes up– on the live flefh,thac wounds thetheart with forrow, but takes not away the fin, fuch acrolfe you would . reckon not the medicineofafriend, but thewound ' ofaRenemy. . . By this thoumaietl: judge ef:thineell:ate,, andof . Gods love to thee, by the itfue of thine afflietions. Tis true, that all kinds of croffes fall alike to a11, fickndfe,poverty, &c. npon the godly and tJae \vie– ked; th~difference is onely in the i1fue : The fame Sunne thines upQn all, but it hardens one, and it fof. tens another 1 and the fame wrnde biowes upon all, ~ but
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