A Divine Cordial

CHAP. II. Containing the grand Proposition.

2. I Pass to the second, the excellency of the Privilege: All t•ings work together for good. This is a Jacobs staff in the hand of faith, with which we may walk cheerfully to the Mount of God: what will satisfy or give content, if this will no•? A•l things work together for good. This word [Greek or Hebrew] work together, is a Physical expression. Several poysonful ingredients put together, being tempered by the skill of the Apothecary, make a Sovereign Medicine, and work together for the good of the Patient^*. So all Gods Providences being divinely tempered and sanctified, do work together for the best to the S•in•s. He who loves God, and is called according to his purpose, may say to his soul, Soul take thy •ase, for, there is much good laid up for thee, every thing in the wo•l• shall be for thy good. This is a Christians Cordial, which may cause the colour to come in his face, and make him like Jonathan, who when he had tasted the honey ⟨p. 5⟩at the end of the ro• hi• eyes were enlightened, 1 Sam. 14 27. Why should a Christian exentera•e himself?² why should •e kill himself wih care, when all things shall sweetly concur, yea conspire for his god? The result of the ex is this,