Observanda. The life and death of the late Q. Mary

VI. The Changes that come upon the World, have a various Aspect in them, they look more ways than one. Of the Wheels, 'tis said, When they went, they went upon their Four sides: no less than Four several ways one Wheel of Providence has its Tendencies. In one Turn of Providence, there may be what is very Afflictive, and yet in the very same Turn, something that is very Merciful; or, as one speaks, One and the same Providence hath sometimes its Blacks and Whites: Thus, 'tis said in Isa. 57.1. The Merciful are taken away, The Righteous is taken away from the Evil to come. When Merciful and Righteous Men are Wheeled out of the World, there is a double Aspect in it; First, there is a Blessing unto themselves in it, they are by the Swift Chariot Wheels of Heaven, fetched away thither, where the Weary are at Rest. But then, there is a Judgment upon the Survivors, who are now laid open unto more unhappy Changes, of Evil to come. The young Child of David was taken away by an Early Death: Why so? The Wheel turned on One Side, in that thing, to Chastise the Sin of the Relations; but on Another Side, it was to prevent ⟨p. 22⟩a perpetual Monument of Shame, and occasion of War in the Nation. The best Child of Jeroboam was taken away by an Early Death; why so? The Wheel turned on One Side for the Everlasting Happiness of the Deceased; but on Another Side, for the Hastening of Ruin on the Family. O WHEEL, How many Changes dost thou bear upon! Why is Jonah swallowed by the Fish? It was to Correct him, it was to Reform him; yea, but, O WHEEL, there was more than this; it was to procure the Regards of the Ninevites unto his Ministry, when they heard of the Miracle.

VI. The Changes that come upon the World, have a various Aspect in them, they look more wayes than one. Of the Wheels, 'tis said, When they went, they went upon their Four sides: no less than Four several wayes one Wheel of Providence has its Tendencies. In one Turn of Providence, there may be what is very Aflictive, and yet in the very same Turn, something that is very Merciful; or, as one speaks, One and the same Providence hath sometimes its Blacks and Whites: Thus, 'tis said in Isa. 57.1. The Merciful are taken away, The Righteous is taken away from the Evil to come. When Merciful and Righteous Men are Wheel'd out of the World, there is a double Aspect in it; First, there is a Blessing unto themselves in it, they are by the Swift Chariot Wheels of Heaven, fetch'd away thither, where the Weary are at Rest. But then, there is a Judgment upon the Survivers, who are now laid open unto more unhappy Changes, of Evil to come. The young Child of David was taken away by an Early Death: Why so? The Wheel turned on One Side, in that thing, to Chastise the Sin of the Relations; but on Another Side, it was to prevent