Gospel reconciliation, or, Christ's trumpet of peace to the world

The second Weakness is this. When men that are godly are ready to judg of Gods works through their weakness, as works of enmity against them; not only of their ways towards God as an argument that God, and they are at enmity; but they are ready to judg all the administrations of Gods providence, as if they were the works of an enemy to them; as if God were in them, walking contrary to them: This is a great weakness, and dishonour unto God. Let the wicked, and ungodly judg so ⟨p. 131⟩if they Will. As God saith; fury is not in me; who would set the briars, and the Thorns before him? he will go through them. When God comes in outward ways of misery; ungodly ones may look upon them as God walking in them contrary unto them; they may look upon all his works as the works of an enemy, and as one that intends their ruin, and destruction: they are to look upon every trouble, if it be but the least distemper of their body as the beginnings of eternal wrath, and a making way for eternal misery for ought they know. But they that are reconciled to God, it is their weakness if they should look upon the greatest affliction they meet withal as a work of Gods coming towards them as an enemy. No; you must know; that there is this power in your reconciliation with God in Christ; as

The second Weakness is this. When men that are godly are ready to judg of Gods works through their weakness, as works of enmity against them; not only of their waies towards God as an argument that God, and they are at enmity; but they are ready to judg al the administrations of Gods providence, as if they were the works of an enemy to them; as if God were in them, walking contrary to them: This is a great weakness, and dishonor unto God. Let the wicked, and ungodly judg so