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A Divine Cordial
A divine cordial, or, The transcendent privilege of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...A divine cordial, or, The transcendent priviledge of those that love God and are savingly called published by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Tho. Parkhurst, 1663
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SECTION I. Showing that the evil of affliction works for good to the Godly.
SECTION I. Shewing that the evil of affliction works for good to the Godly.
1. The evil of affliction works for good. There are two heart-quieting considerations in all the afflictions which befall us.
1. THe evil of affliction works for good. There are two heart-quieting considerations in all the afflictions which befall us.
1. That God hath a special hand in them, Ruth 1.21. The Almighty hath afflicted me. Instruments can no more stir till God gives them a Commission, than the Axe can cut of it self without an hand. Job eyed God in his affliction: therefore, as Austin observes, he doth not say, The Lord gave, and the Devil took away*; but, The Lord hath taken away. Who-ever brings an affliction to us, it is God that sends it.
1. That God hath a special hand in them, Ruth 1.21. The Almighty hath afflicted me. Instruments can no more stir till God gives them a Commission, than the Axe can cut of it self without an hand. Iob eyed God in his affliction: therefore, as Austin observes, he doth not say, The Lord gave, and the Devil took away*; but, The Lord hath taken away. Who-ever brings an affliction to us, it is God that sends it.