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Sixthly, treasure up all the experiences you have had ¹of God, and your own heart in the time of your affliction, keep them fresh in your heart, and work them upon your spirit, and make use of them as God offers occasion.

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Seventhly, what you wished you had done then, be sure now to set about, and never rest till it be done; ¹that when affliction comes again, it may not find it undone, if it does, it will make the affliction very bitter unto you. It was the advice of one Theodoricus, to Sigismund the Emperor, who asked him how he should be happy, Do, says he, that now, which when you have been tormented with a fit of the stone or the gout, you would wish you had done: that which he said of that particular afflictions, is true of others: We should have glorious reformations, if this rule were well observed; surely, that which is true in times of affliction, is true out of it, and that which conscience upon ground judges to be right and good then, is right and good now.

Seventhly, what you wished you had done then, be sure now to set about, and never rest till it be done; ¹that when affliction comes again, it may not finde it undone, if it does, it will make the affliction very bitter unto you. It was the advice of one Theodoricus, to Segismund the Emperor, who asked him how he should be happy, Do, says he, that now, which when you have been tormented with a fit of the stone or the gout, you would wish you had done: that which he said of that particular afflictions, is true of others: We should have glorious reformations, if this rule were well observed; surely, that which is true in times of affliction, is true out of it, and that which conscience upon ground judges to be right and good then, is right and good now.