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…

To help you herein, take these few considerations.

1 That no afflictions befall any without the wise ordering Providence of God, ¹as Eliphas implieth, when he saith, That affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth evil spring out of the ground; Truly, there is not a Warrant comes to Arrest thy Body with Pain or Sickness, but it comes under the Hand and Seal of thy heavenly Father; there is not a Habeas Corpus comes to remove thy Yoke-fellow, Child, or Friend, but it is signed by thy heavenly Father. This consideration hath been a ground of comfort unto the people of God in all their afflictions;² The Lord, said Job, hath given, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. And this must needs be a ground of comfort, yea and joy unto all the people of God, especially if you shall consider in the next place,

1 That no afflictions befall any without the wise ordering Providence of God, ¹as Eliphas implieth, when he saith, That affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth evil spring out of the ground; Truly, there is not a Warrant comes to Arrest thy Body with Pain or Sickness, but it comes under the Hand and Seal of thy heavenly Father; there is not a Habeas Corpus comes to remove thy Yoke-fellow, Child, or Friend, but it is signed by thy heavenly Father. This consideration hath been a ground of comfort unto the people of God in all their afflictions;² The Lord, said Iob, hath given, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. And this must needs be a ground of comfort, yea and joy unto all the people of God, especially if you shall consider in the next place,

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