Two sermons tending to direction for Christian carriage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…Two sermons tending to direction for Christian cariage [sic] both in afflictions incumbent, and…

First, That we take heed how we censure men¹ as forth of Gods favour, in regard of any outward afflictions, yea or inward desertions, though they be great and grievous, long and tedious, sticking close by them without removal or ⟨p. 37⟩amendment, producing in them many hideous and fearful effects, so that in the eyes of the world, as well themselves as others, God may seem to have cast them off utterly, and to have forgotten them for ever. It hath been the state of² Gods best Saints, of his dearest Children, of his faithfullest Servants, yea of the only Son himself, ^mthe Saint of Saints, when he bare the burden of our sins. So that, as DAVID speaketh, ⁿif we should so deem, if we should go by this rule, and thereby judge of mens estates, we should ⁵condemn, not Gods only Son only, which ^osome sometime did, as forth of Gods favour, but the whole progeny of Gods children, the whole race of the righteous, whose Lot and Portion it hath oft been to be in this woeful condition, and ^pto drink of this bitter cup, that ^qChrist their head began to them; and to pass ^rthis sharp trial, this fiery and bloody ^sbaptism, that ^ttheir Saviour past before them.¹²