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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…
Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed by J. Astwood for Tho. Parkhurst, 1682
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.
10. God in Affliction deals well with his Children, because if he take away one Comfort, he leaves more behind. God threatened Jerusalem to strip her of all her Jewels and leave her bare, Ezek. 16.39. But you who belong to God, may Sing of Mercy and Judgment, Psal. 101.1. If God hath fleeced your Estate, he hath raised you up Friends: If he hath taken away one of your Jewels, he hath left you more: if he hath plucked one dear Relation from you, he hath left other sweet Clusters behind, and can double your Comfort in them: is not all this kindness? But this is our Sin, we grieve more for one Loss, than we are thankful for an Hundred Mercies. Jacob was more troubled for the loss of ⟨p. 226⟩Joseph, than he was Comforted with the Lives of all his other Children, Gen. 37.35.
10. God in Affliction deals well with his Children, because if he take away one Comfort, he leaves more behind. God threatned Ierusalem to strip her of all her Jewels and leave her bare, Ezek. 16.39. But you who belong to God, may Sing of Mercy and Iudgment, Psal. 101.1. If God hath fleeced your Estate, he hath raised you up Friends: If he hath taken away one of your Jewels, he hath left you more: if he hath pluck'd one dear Relation from you, he hath left other sweet Clusters behind, and can double your Comfort in them: is not all this kindness? But this is our Sin, we grieve more for one Loss, than we are thankful for an Hundred Mercies. Jacob was more troubled for the loss of ⟨p. 226⟩Joseph, than he was Comforted with the Lives of all his other Children, Gen. 37.35.