TH:E NECESSITY and -ADVANTA-GE · of early A-F·F L ICT ;I ON S. LA M. iii. 27· 28. I t is goodfor a man that he bear the yoke ·in. · his youth. l-ie jitteth alone and keepeth– Jilence; becaufe he ·hath born·it ti-pon him. ,...rHE great diffe~ence ancl .contrariety- . , betwixt the maxims of the world 1 and .thofe whiCh religion cloth : propofe, is in nothing n1ore obfervable than in taking the meafures - of happin~fs and fc1ici ty.. ·.The world accounteth him a happy man, · who -enjoyeth a perpe-tual ·caltn and fun~ fhine ofprofperity; whofepleafantand joy- - fuLdays are ·never overcafl: .with anJ'doudr nor.his· tranquillity interrupted by any dif~ aHrou-s-accident; .and , who was never ac– quainted with any other change, but that. \vhich ,brought him the new .and frefu reli~ of fuccedi.ng plcafures and enjoym-ents. But religion. hath taught us to look upon this as a condition full · of danger; mud1n1ore to be pitied than envied, to beJ~ar~ ed than to be defired. It hath taught: us to conGJ t>r afflictions as. - inflanccs of the ~ divh1e goodnefs, as tokens and pledges of his
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