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The comfort and crown of great actions. In a sermon preached, Decemb. 4. 1657.…
The comfort and crown of great actions. In a sermon preached, Decemb. 4. 1657. Before the honourable East-India company. By Edward Reynolds, D.D.The comfort and crown of great actions. In a sermon preached, Decemb. 4. 1657. Before the honorable East-India company. By Edward Reynolds, D.D.
London: printed by Tho. Newcomb for George Thomason, 1658
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And on the other hand, if the Lord suffer not our labours to succeed, yet he is our God himself still, and all desirable good is eminently comprised ⟨p. 27⟩in him, who is a God All-sufficient to those that walk before him, and are upright. Though he answer me not in the particular, wherein I waited upon him, he ever answers Secundum cardinem desiderii, 1in such a way as is better for me: Though the issue be not secundum voluntatem, according to2 my will, yet it is ever ad utilitatem, according to my profit and good. Paul had not the thing he expressly prayed for, to have the messenger of Satan depart from him, but he had a sufficiency of grace to uphold him, which was much better. And as a Merchant is not angry with his Factor, though he send him not the commodities he wrote for, if he send him those which are ten times more beneficial; no more is a believer displeased with the good providence of God, when he receives in answer to his labours and prayers, not what himself expected, but what God knew much better for him.
And on the other hand, if the Lord suffer not our labors to succeed, yet he is our God himself still, and all desireable good is eminently comprised ⟨p. 27⟩in him, who is a God All-sufficient to those that walk before him, and are upright. Though he answer me not in the particular, wherein I waited upon him, he ever answers Secundum cardinem desiderii, 1in such a way as is better for me: Though the issue be not secundum voluntatem, according to2 my will, yet it is ever ad utilitatem, according to my profit and good. Paul had not the thing he expresly prayed for, to have the messenger of Satan depart from him, but he had a sufficiency of grace to uphold him, which was much better. And as a Merchant is not angry with his Factor, though he send him not the commodities he wrote for, if he send him those which are ten times more beneficial; no more is a believer displeased with the good providence of God, when he receives in answer to his labors and prayers, not what himself expected, but what God knew much better for him.