The Soul's Conflict with Itself

4. Seasonable and sanctified corrections ¹whereby we are kept from being led away by the error of the wicked, show Gods fatherly care over us as his. Who will trouble himself in correcting another mans child? yet we oftener complain of the smart we feel, then think of the tender heart and hand that smites us, until our spirits be subdued, and then we reap the quiet fruit of righteousness. Where crosses work together for the best, we may know ²that we love God, and are loved of him. Thriving in a sinful course, is a black mark of one that is not Gods.

4. Seasonable and sanctified corrections ¹wherby we are kept from being led away by the errour of the wicked, shew Gods fatherly care over us as his. Who will trouble himselfe in correcting another mans childe? yet we oftner complaine of the smart wee feele, then thinke of the tender heart and hand that smites us, untill our spirits be subdued, and then we reape the quiet fruit of righteousnesse. Where crosses worke together for the best, we may know ²that we love God, and are loved of him. Thriving in a sinfull course, is a black marke of one that is not Gods.

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7. Then we make it appear that ¹God is our God, when we side with him, and are for him and his cause in ill times. When God seems to cry out unto us, who is on my side, who? Then if we can say as those in Isaiah, whereof one