The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

1. That God is the author of it. It is in it self a •ore evil, though by the over ruling Providence of ⟨p. 176⟩God, it is made to issue in good to some. No• there are two sorts of evil that the Scripture tell us of, viz. of Sin, and of Affliction. As to tha• of Sin, however the permissive Providence […] God is conversant about it, and is not idle; ye• we are utterly to disclaim his being the Author […] it: but as to that of Affliction, God challengeth […] to himself universally, Amos 3. 6. And looks o• himself as dishonoured, if we do not see and acknowledge his hand. in it, Isa. 26. 11. And this e• tends not only to outward and temporary troubles, but to all the inward anxieties and terror of Conscience that overtake them, Lam. 3. 65. God indeed many times useth the instrumentality of second causes in the production of it, but sti• he manageth them, and brings about the issue according to his pleasure: he terrifieth and amazeth them, hence that deprecation, Jer. 17. 17 Be not a terror to me, &c.

1. That God is the author of it. It is in it self a •ore evil, though by the over ruling Providence of ⟨p. 176⟩God, it is made to issue in good to some. No• there are two sorts of evil that the Scripture tell us of, viz. of Sin, and of Affliction. As to tha• of Sin, however the permissive Providence God is conversant about it, and is not idle; ye we are utterly to disclaim his being the Author it: but as to that of Affliction, God challengeth to himself universally,