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You will say, that many afflictions, wherewith God scourgeth his children, are the ^cFatherly corrections of love; yet they are corrections, and their intention is to better us. Now what need the bestowing such pains on us, to make us good, if sin had not made us evil. Still Sin is the cause, whether it be sickness: ^dtherefore I will make thee sick in smiting thee, because of thy sins. Or whether more despairful calamity, ^eI will wail and howl, I will make a wailing like the Dragons, mournings as the owls: for her wound is incurable. Still the reason is, verse 5. For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. Oh that our sick bodies, when the hand of Visitation hath cast them down) would convey this lesson to our souls, All is for our wickedness. Our stomachs loath meat, because we have overburdened them with Gods abused blessings. We have made the Creatures (ordained for our comforts) ^fan occasion of our falling. And now, lo, we abhor to be cheered by those things, wherewith we have erst oppressed our selves. That ^gdelicates poured ⟨p. 80⟩upon a mouth shut up, are as messes of meat, set upon a grave.

You will say, that many afflictions, wherewith God scourgeth his children, are the ^cFatherly corrections of loue; yet they are corrections, and their intention is to better vs. Now what need the bestowing such paines on vs, to make vs good, if sinne had not made vs euill. Still Sinne is the cause, whether it be sickenesse: ^dtherefore I will make thee sicke in smiting thee, because of thy sinnes. Or whether more despairefull calamity, ^e