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…

III. When God shall exercise you with any losses, crosses, or afflictions, labour to bear them Christian•like; to that end observe these rules.

1 Bear them sensibly; the Lord expects we should be sensible of the weight of our afflictions; he would not have us as Stoics, or Stocks, which are not affected with his stripes; but like Children, he would have us sensible of the smart of the rod.¹ Thus was Job.

1 Bear them sensibly; the Lord expects we should be sensible of the waight of our afflictions; hee would not have us as Stoicks, or Stocks, which are not affected with his stripes; but like Children, he would have us sensible of the smart of the rod.¹ Thus was Iob.

1. 1Job 1. 20

There are two Extremes whereunto we are very prone to run in times of afflictions, the one is a despising of afflictions, the other is a fainting under them, both which are hinted to us by the Author to the Hebrews,¹ My Son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him; these are the two extremes we are carefully to avoid in times of afflictions.

There are two Extreams whereunto we are very prone to run in times of afflictions, the one is a despising of afflictions, the other is a fainting under them, both which are hinted to us by the Author to the Hebrews,