Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…

3. When God puts his Children to the School of the Cross, yet he deals well with them, because he doth not leave them without a Promise, 1 Cor. 10.13. God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able. God knows our frame, that we are imbecile and weak; our flesh is not as brass, Job 6 12. And the Lord will not try us above our strength, he will not lay a Giants burden upon a Child's back. God will not stretch the strings of his Viol too hard, lest they break: if God strike with one hand, he will support with the other, Cant. 8.3. Either he will make our Yoke Lighter, or our Faith stronger. This Promise is Honey at the end of the Rod.

3. When God puts his Children to the School of the Cross, yet he deals well with them, because he doth not leave them without a Promise, 1 Cor. 10.13. God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able. God knows our frame, that we are imbecil and weak; our flesh is not as brass, Job 6 12. And the Lord will not try us above our strength, he will not lay a Giants burden upon a Childs back. God will not stretch the strings of his Viol too hard, lest they break: if God strike with one hand, he will support with the other, Cant. 8.3. Either he will make our Yoak Lighter, or our Faith stronger. This Promise is Hony at the end of the Rod.

4. God deals well with his People when he afflicts, because Afflictions are Preventive. 1. They prevent sin,