Directions for weak distempered Christians, to grow up to a confirmed state of grace…

XXX. 1. A strong Christian can digest the hardest Truths, and the hardest works of Providence. He seeth more of the reason and evidence of truths than others: And he hath usually a more comprehensive knowledge, and can reconcile those truths which short sighted persons suspect to be inconsistent and contradictory: And when he cannot reconcile them, he knoweth they are reconcilable: For he hath laid his foundation well, and then he reduceth other truths to that, and buildeth them on it. And so he doth by the hardest Providences: Whoever is high or low, whoever prospereth or is afflicted, however humane affairs are carried, and all things seem to go against the Church and cause of Christ; he knoweth yet that God is good to Israel, Psal. 73.1, 2. and that he is the righteous Judge of all the earth, and that the righteous shall have dominion in the morning, and it shall go ⟨p. 81⟩well with them that fear the Lord: For he goeth into the Sanctuary, and foreseeth the end. Eccl. 8.11, 12, 13. Psal. 73.17. Psal. 115.11, 13. and 31.19.

XXX. 1. A strong Christian can digest the hardest Truths, and the hardest works of Providence. He seeth more of the reason and evidence of truths than others: And he hath usually a more comprehensive knowledge, and can reconcile those truths which short sighted persons suspect to be inconsistent and contradictory: And when he cannot reconcile them, he knoweth they are reconcileable: For he hath laid his foundation well, and then he reduceth other truths to that, and buildeth them on it. And so he doth by the hardest Providences: Whoever is high or low, whoever prospereth or is afflicted, however humane affairs are carried, and all things seem to go against the Church and cause of Christ; he knoweth yet that God is good to Israel, Psal. 73.1, 2. and that he is the righteous Judge of all the earth, and that the righteous shall have dominion in the morning, and it shall go