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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.
Surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribu• angat.
God would have the world hang as a loose Tooth, which being twitched away, doth not much trouble us. Is it not good to be weaned? the oldest Saint needs it. Why doth the Lord break the Conduit-pipe, but that we may go to him in whom are all our fresh springs*.
6. Afflictions work so good, as they make way for comfort. In the valley of Achor a door of hope, Hos. 2.15. Achor signifies trouble: God sweetens outward pain, with inward peace. Joh. 16.20. Your sorrow shall be turned into joy. Here is the Water turned into Wine. After a bitter Pill God gives Sugar. Paul had his Prison-Songs. Gods Rod hath Honey at the end of it. The Saints in affliction have had such sweet raptures of joy, that ⟨p. 31⟩they have thought themselves in the borders of the Heavenly Canaan; they have gathered Grapes of Thorns.
6. Afflictions work so good, as they make way for comfort. In the valley of Achor a door of hope,