God's anger

But another's complaint is; I am perplexed ¹with sickness: I am a mark against which pain shoots his arrows: I wast away with languishments, as ice is dissolved by heat into water. Rest patient; this consumption shall be consumed. Death, that universal executioner of mankind, shall be executed. Time shall cut off Death, and Eternity shall make an end of Time. Death shall have no grave left for his monument, or trophy of his victories: and the Angel hath sworn, that time shall be no more. Thy sickness may outlast thy Physician, but thy soul shall outlive thy sickness, and nothing shall outlive thy soul.

But anothers complaint is; I am perplexed ¹with sicknesse: I am a marke against which paine shoots his arrows: I wast away with languishments, as ice is dissolved by heat into water. Rest patient; this consumption shall be consumed. Death, that universall executioner of mankind, shall be executed. Time shall cut off Death, and Eternity shall make an end of Time. Death shall have no grave left for his monument, or trophee of his victories: and the Angel hath sworn, that time shall be no more. Thy sicknesse may outlast thy Physician, but thy soul shall outlive thy sicknesse, and nothing shall outlive thy soul.

1. 17.

But the pangs of my body are so violent, that they assault me with distraction. Fear not: ⟨p. 79⟩they may beleaguer thee with distrust, but never overcome that faith, which thou puttest in this God of consolation. He is a most faithful Creator, and will servare depositum, keep that soul safe, with which the believer hath instrusted him. The breaches of the body are the souls windows, and afford her a more clear prospect into heaven, enkindling her with an ardent desire to be with God in glory. Jobs abundant sores would have bred in him a continuity of sorrows; but for that antidote of faith, and saving cordial of hope, that his eyes should see his Redeemer in blessedness.