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

Secondly; There are proper Temptations that attend the afflicted State. Many are encompassed in a sad Circle, their Sins procure Afflictions, and their Afflictions occasion many Sins. Indeed, Tribulation that is sanctified, by a happy gradation worketh Patience; ¹and Patience, Experience of the Divine Mercy; and Experience, Hope, and Hope maketh not ashamed. But when it meets with a stubborn Spirit, there are fearful descents of Sin: Tribulation excites Impatience, and Impatience causeth Perplexity, and that Despair, and Despair Confusion. The Devil lays ⟨p. 9⟩his trains in every condition, and sometimes by immoderate Sorrow, sometimes by inordinate Joy, doth mischief to the Soul. And as more perish by Surfeits than Abstinence, yet the Diseases that are caused by emptiness, are more dangerous and incurable than those that proceed from fullness: So more are ruined by Prosperity than Adversity: But the guilty Passions that ferment and rage in Adversity, are more pernicious, and more hardly tempered and subdued, than the Luxurious Appetites that are fomented and drawn forth by Prosperity. We are directed by our Saviour to pray, that we may not be led into Temptation, and to be delivered from all Evil.

Secondly; There are proper Temptations that attend the afflicted State. Many are encompass'd in a sad Circle, their Sins procure Afflictions, and their Afflictions occasion many Sins. Indeed, Tribulation that is sanctified, by a happy gradation worketh Patience; ¹and Patience, Experience of the Divine Mercy; and Experience, Hope, and Hope maketh not ashamed. But when it meets with a stubborn Spirit, there are fearful descents of Sin: Tribulation excites Impatience, and Impatience causeth Perplexity, and that Despair, and Despair Confusion. The Devil lays ⟨p. 9⟩his trains in every condition, and sometimes by immoderate Sorrow, sometimes by inordinate Joy, doth mischief to the Soul. And as more perish by Surfeits than Abstinence, yet the Diseases that are caused by emptiness, are more dangerous and incurable than those that proceed from fulness: So more are ruined by Prosperity than Adversity: But the guilty Passions that ferment and rage in Adversity, are more pernicious, and more hardly temper'd and subdued, than the Luxurious Appetites that are fomented and drawn forth by Prosperity. We are directed by our Saviour to pray, that we may not be led into Temptation, and to be delivered from all Evil.