The great duty of resignation to the divine will in afflictions enforced from the…

I will, first, Consider what is ¹consistent with this voluntary Resignation. ⟨p. 6⟩That will appear in the following particulars.

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First; an earnest deprecation of an impending Judgment, is ¹reconcilable with our Submission to the pleasure of God, declared by the Event. Our Saviour with humility and importunity desired the removing of the Cup of Bitterness. We must distinguish between God's Law, and his Decree and Counsel; The Law is the Rule of our Duty, and requires an entire exact subjection in all our Faculties, even in our internal Desires, in the first motions of the Will; the least velleity, or rising of the Heart against the Divine Command, is irregular and culpable; for not only the acts of Sin are forbidden in every Command respectively, but all the incitations of Concupiscence, ⟨p. 7⟩before the deliberate judgment of the Mind, or the actual consent of the Will. But the Decree of God is not the Rule of our Duty, and Secret, till manifested by the event of things. This being premised, the Reasons are evident why we may pray against an Affliction that threatens us, without violating our Duty.

First; an earnest deprecation of an impending Judgment, is ¹reconcilable with our Submission to the pleasure of God, declared by the Event. Our Saviour with humility and importunity desired the removing of the Cup of Bitterness. We must distinguish between God's Law, and his Decree and Counsel; The Law is the Rule of our Duty, and requires an intire exact subjection in all our Faculties, even in our internal Desires, in the first motions of the Will; the least velleity, or rising of the Heart against the Divine Command, is irregular and culpable; for not only the acts of Sin are forbidden in every Command respectively, but all the incitations of Concupiscence,