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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.
4. Afflictions work for good to the Godly,§4 as they are destructive to sin. Sin is the Mother, affliction is the Daughter; the Daughter helps to destroy the Mother. Sin is like the Tree that breeds the Worm, and affliction is like the Worm that eats the Tree. There is much corruption in the best heart; affliction doth by degrees work it ou•, as the fire works out the Dross from the •old, Isa. 27.9. This is all the fruit, to take away his sin. What if we have more of the rough File, if we have less Rust? Afflictions carry away nothing but the excrements of sin. If a Physician should say to a Patient, Your body is distempered, and full of bad humours, which must be purged out, or you dye; but I will prescribe Physic, which though it make you deadly sick, yet it will carry away the dregs of your disease, & save your life: would not this be for the good of the Patient? Afflictions are the purging Pills God useth to carry away our spiritual distempers; they cure the Tympany of pride, the Fever of lust, the Dropsy of covetousness: Do they not then work for good?
4. Afflictions work for good to the Godly,§4 as they are destructive to sin. Sin is the Mother, affliction is the Daughter; the Daughter helps to destroy the Mother. Sin is like the Tree that breeds the Worm, and affliction is like the Worm that eats the Tree. There is much corruption in the best heart; affliction doth by degrees work it ou•, as the fire works out the D•oss from the •old, Isa. 27.9. This is all the fruit, to take away his sin. What if we have more of the rough File, if we have less Rust? Afflictions carry away nothing but the excrements of sin. If a Physitian should say to a Patient, Your body is distempered, and full of bad humors, which must be purged out, or you dye; but I will prescribe Physick, which though it make you deadly sick, yet it will carry away the dregs of your disease, & save your life: would not this be for the good of the Patient? Afflictions are the purging Pills God useth to carry away our spiritual distempers; they cure the Tympany of pride, the Feaver of lust, the Dopsie of covetousness: Do they not then work for good?