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Neither is this sickness and trouble of conscience properly good in it self, nor any grace of God, but used by ⟨p. 83⟩God as an instrument of good to his, as when by the ^pspirit of bondage he brings us to adoption. So the Needle that draws the thread through the cloth, is some means to join it together. This is the godly souls sickness for sin, full of sharp and bitter ingredients, but never destitute of a glorious event and victorious triumph. I may say of it as Physicians speak of agues, (which make a man sick for a while, that he may be the sounder a long time after.) This sickness is physic to procure better health.

Neyther is this sicknesse and trouble of conscience properly good in it selfe, nor any grace of God, but vsed by ⟨p. 83⟩God as an instrument of good to his, as when by the ^pspirite of bondage he brings vs to adoption. So the Needle that drawes the thread through the cloth, is some meanes to ioyne it together. This is the godly soules sicknesse for sin, full of sharpe and bitter ingredients, but neuer destitute of a glorious euent and victorious triumph. I may say of it as Physitians speake of agues, (which make a man sicke for a while, that hee may bee the sounder a long time after.) This sickenesse is physicke to procure better health.

1. pRom 8.

2 Spiritual sickness for sin in the reprobate hath other effects. To restrain their number, they principal appear in two diseases, or disasters rather, Impenitency and Despair.