ErroneoJJJ Confcience nogoodConfcience. 215 Jerufalem.· This was the Divi~itie ?f theCal~ Cap. 13, deanr, Hab. I.1 I· Then fhall bu mznde chat.ge -• _ - ·oiii (with his fuccefs) a14dhe fball pa(r over, and of.:. - - --J fend, imputing thi1 his power to huGod. Thefe ~re apt to fay ]er. so·1· Weojfendnat,becaufo they b.tve finned, and we haveptevailed. But if Gods Permi!five Providence~ and our _pre..; vailing ftiCcefs make any thing lawtull, what is then .Gnfull, that is in our power ? Then were not God's writtenwill, but our will and power(Providence concurring)the · Ruleand Meafure oflawfull and unlawfull, .But Providences are various and uncertain, Our · Rule mufr be tonftant and . certain. Providence can never be made a Rule; for firfr, no Conclufion thence cari be -certain and infallible,faith thewifemari Ecclef9·1~2· .Alt thing/ come ali~e to all; &c. fo that none can know love or hatred by a// that it before him• Secondly, The fi1ccefs which God doth of.;;. ten in his Providence lay o~t for men is fhort of mans Expet1ation, and the mofr in• duflriotH ~rtdeavours; Ecclej. 9· 1 I·• Tbe race i~ not to the fwift,&r.. Thirdly; Gods wife ancl fecret Providence doth oft difappoint and fruftrate the expeCtation of the wifeft and thebefr of m~n,Ecclef.1· I 5.There is~ juft man. that perijhetb inhi1 righrtoufoe[s, and a wic~d manwh.1 ]Jrolon~etb biJ lift ir:z hi1 wick!dnefr• __ Th~ like he faith agairi &clef.8. t 4· Fourth"" ly, Providetices arev•riomt and full ofalter;;, natitm.r ~ that it tvere abrutifb kindeofLo-* ~ick to conclude any thjng po.fitively 1L 2 thence
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