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First; It is the Hand of God, which takes away our Desirable Relatives; Oh, Patiently Resign them into that Hand. When the Prophet had the Desire of his Eyes Extinguished, he received this order to Signalize his Patience; Thou shalt neither Mourn, nor Weep neither shall thy Tears run down. And that Holy & Patient Servant of God could say, My Wife dyed, and I did […] I was commanded. Whatever Evil we sustain in losing the Desire of our Eyes, yet considering what Hand it is, that sends that Evil upon us, it becomes us say, Job 2. 10. Shall we receive Good at the Hand of God (such a Good as we had in the Desire of our Eyes:) And shall we not Receive Evil? (such an Evil, as the loss of that Good.) Those that were the Desire of our Eyes, and as the very Apple of our Eyes. Tis God that has taken then. • Say then with him, Psal. 39. 9. I was Dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst. […] We never do more Honour the Blessed God, than by a Patient and Profound Submission unto His Will, in our Adversity. Behold, a Stroke of Adversity, wherein to be Submissive unto the will of God, Honours Him it may be more than all our Active Obedience! When a Servant ⟨p. 215⟩of God sees the Desire of his Eyes taking Wing; for him then to kneel down by her, and take into his Hands that Hand which hath been dearer to him than all the World beside, and there with all possible Solemnity Resign unto the Lord, the Friend, for whole Life he would freely have given all he had in the World as a Ransom; and to hear her thereupon Saying to him, whom she preferred above the whole world, Sir, I Sign and Seal your Act of Resignation! Methinks, I see my Ezekiel doing so, in the black Day, when the great God said unto him, Son of man, Behold, I take away the Desire of thine Eyes with a Stroke. Certainly, Tis no Dishonourable Testimony to the Glories of Christianity!

First; It is the Hand of God, which takes away our Desireable Relatives; Oh, Patiently Resign them into that Hand. When the Prophet had the Desire of his Eyes Extinguished, he received this order to Signalize his Patience; Thou shalt neither Mourn, nor Weep neither shall thy Tears run down. And that Holy & Patient Servant of God could say, My Wife dyed, and I did 〈…〉 I was commanded. Whatever Evil we sustain in losing the Desire of our Eyes, yet considering what Hand it is, that sends that Evil upon us, it becomes us say,