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much more those who come into the seas of troubles and afflictions, how do they see the wonders of the Lord? they can tell their friends much of the wonders of the Lord towards them: so Israel in the time of trouble cries out, Hos. 8. 2. My God we know thee; now we know thee otherwise then before we did: and experience of the evil of sin. It was a speech of a Germane Divine in his sickness, Gasper Olevianus; In this disease I have learned how great God is, and what the evil of sin is, I never knew what God was to purpose before, nor ¹what sin meant. When God spake to Job out of the whirlwind, cap. 38. he answers, cap. 40. 3, 4. Behold, I am vile, what shall I answer thee? I will lay my hand upon my mouth. And experience likewise of our weakness, and the vanity of the Creature more now then ever, Psal. 39. 11. When thou with rebukes doest correct man, ²thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity, Selah: he can then say Surely, and that with a Selah, that every man is vanity. It is very observable, that of all the seven churches that Christ wrote unto, in the second & third ⟨p. 54⟩Chapters of the Revelations, there are only two which he charges no evil upon; the Church of Smyrna, and the Church of Philadelphia: and these two were exercised with much trouble; as the Church of Smyrna, cap. 2. 9. is said to have endured much tribulation, and to be in poverty, yet Christ commends her, and says she is rich: her poverty made her rich, her tribulations made her glorious in the eyes of Christ. And the Church of Philadelphia, cap. 3. 8, 10. she had but a little strength, she was in a low, poor, afflicted, contemptible condition; yet she denied not the name of Christ, she keep the word of Christs patience, that word for which she suffered much, being strengthened thereunto by the patience she received from Jesus Christ.

much more those who come into the seas of troubles and afflictions, how do they see the wonders of the Lord? they can tell their friends much of the wonders of the Lord towards them: so Israel in the time of trouble cryes out,