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A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects
A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects by Stephen Charnock.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1683
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fret not.]
1. Do not envy them. Be not troubled at their prosperity.
2. Do not imitate them. Be not provoked by their Glow-worm happiness, to practice the same wickedness to arrive to the same prosperity.
3. Be not sinfully impatient and quarrel, not with God, because he hath not by his providence allowed thee the same measures of prosperity in the world. Accuse him not of injustice and cruelty, because he afflicts the good, and is indulgent to the wicked. Leave him to dispense his blessings according to his own mind.
4. Condemn not the way of Piety and Religion wherein thou art. Think not the worse of thy Profession, because it is attended with Affliction.