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Secondly,¹ in the assurance of Gods fatherly love unto, and care over you, in the sorest and hardest afflictions that can befall you. As it is an argument of much ignorance, to persuade ones self that God loves one, because of present prosperity; so it is exceeding weakness, to call Gods love in question, upon the feeling the smart of affliction, to think that none of Gods people are afflicted in such a ⟨image 136⟩kind as I am; If it were in some other kind, it were not so much, but being thus, I am afraid that God never loved me, and that he hath now quite forsaken me.

Secondly,¹ in the assurance of Gods fatherly love unto, and care over you, in the sorest and hardest afflictions that can befall you. As it is an argument of much ignorance, to perswade ones selfe that God loves one, because of present prosperitie; so it is exceeding weakenesse, to call Gods love in question, upon the feeling the smart of affliction, to thinke that none of Gods people are afflicted in such a ⟨image 136⟩kinde as I am; If it were in some other kind, it were not so much, but being thus, I am afraid that God never loved mee, and that he hath now quite forsaken mee.

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Thirdly,¹ in the assurance of the blessed issue of all, that all will be peace and comfort at the last: if Faith be strong in these, it will be able to encounter with all assaults whatsoever: this strengthening of our Faith must be,