Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

5 Would you be prepared for afflictions, then be often putting cases to your selves of such straights and troubles, of such trials and afflictions as probably may fall out, and then return into your own souls to search and try what strength you have to hold out, if you should fall into such trials and afflictions? When you enjoy abundance of this worlds goods, say to thy self, It may be before I dye I may be stripped of all these, and reduced to great straights, what shall I then do? Will not my faith then fail? Now I am at liberty, and enjoy the comfort of my relations, my friends and acquaintance, happily I may shortly be cast into Prison, and be deprived of all my outward comforts, what shall I then do? how shall I be able to bear up under these sad changes? it is good to put such cases to your selves, which will be an excellent means to strengthen your faith against the evil day, against the day of trouble and distress, and to make you with the greater confidence to trust in God. Thus the Saints of old were wont to put the hardest cases to themselves for the better strengthening of their hearts and faith, as Psal. 6. 2, 3.

5 Would you be prepared for afflictions, then be often putting cases to your selves of such straights and troubles, of such trials and afflictions as probably may fall out, and then return into your own souls to search and try what strength you have to hold out, if you should fall into such trials and afflictions? When you enjoy abundance of this worlds goods, say to thy self, It may be before I dye I may bee stripped of all these, and reduced to great straights, what shall I then doe? Will not my faith then fail? Now I am at liberty, and enjoy the comfort of my relations, my friends and acquaintance, happily I may shortly be cast into Prison, and be deprived of all my outward comforts, what shall I then doe? how shall I be able to bear up under these sad changes? it is good to put such cases to your selves, which will bee an excellent means to strengthen your faith against the evil day, against the day of trouble and distress, and to make you with the greater confidence to trust in God. Thus the Saints of old were wont to put the hardest cases to themselves for the better strengthening of their hearts and faith, as Psal. 6. 2, 3.