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Right thoughts in sad hours representing the comforts and the duties of good men…
Right thoughts in sad hours representing the comforts and the duties of good men under all their afflictions; and particularly, that one, the untimely death of children: in a sermon delivered at Charles-town, New England; under a fresh experience of that calamity.Right thoughts in sad hours representing the comforts and the duties of good men under all their afflictions; and particularly, that one, the untimely death of children: in a sermon delivered at Charls-town, New England; under a fresh experience of that calamity.
London: printed by James Astwood, 1689
Right THOUGHTS IN Sad Hours, › Doctrine. › Proposition III. › Question.
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One piece of Injustice attending of that conclusion is; There is a wrong thereby done to the Kindness of God. With such ⟨p. 16⟩a clap of Thunder as this may the Lord reprove your hard opinion of him, You think worse of me than I deserve! Our good God hath assured us, in Rev. 3. 19. Whom I love, I rebuke and chasten; why then shall we contradict him with such a vain imagination as this, I am Rebuked only that I may be ruined, I am Chastened only because I am abhorred by the Lord?
Another Injustice expressed in that conclusion is; There is thereby a wrong done to the Wisdom of God. They of Old reflected hard, when they said, Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? Thus do they that say, Can any good thing come out of Affliction? Well, and I pray, Why not? What should hinder Good from coming out of that grievous thing? Is it impossible unto that God, who is wise in Counsel, and wonderful in Working? We are informed in