Parentator. Memoirs of remarkables in the life and the death of the ever-memorable Dr.…

If every Individual Believer be still Obnoxious to the Things that are not Joyous but Grievous, how can a People consisting of such, look for an Exemption from them? It is true, the Israelites had a Promised Land, wherein they might hope for a Temporal Prosperity, while they kept the Condition of the Covenant by which they held it. But the Christian Church, is got out of that Minority. Nor has our SAVIOUR Promised His Church any Land flowing with Milk and Honey in this Present Evil World. We actually see this, in every Generation; That the most Reformed People of GOD (the Vaudois for That!) have been harassed with Persecutions, as well as they that by Sinking into Criminal Corruptions have Provoked the Holy JESUS to say, I have something against thee; At the same time, they that Work Wickedness, have not wanted for Exaltation. Yea, let us look where we will at this Day; The People among whom the Covenant of the Gospel ⟨p. 84⟩is most adhered unto, see much more Temporal Adversity, than many People who pay very little Regard unto it. Nevertheless, it will be the Wisdom of any People under Heavy Judgments of Heaven, to Apprehend Loud calls unto Repentance in them; and Confess and Forsake their Sins, that they may find Mercy with the Lord: They make a very Ill use of the Divine Dispensations, and run the Hazard of being dealt withal as the Refractory and Incorrigible, it they do dot so. Yea, they have cause to be Apprehensive, that the Heavy Judgments, may come to manage a Special Controversy, and be Inquisitive, what and where it may be, and be Solicitous for the Removal of it. Be sure, the Prayers of such a Reforming People, under their Distresses, will be the most likely to be Prevailing ones: GOD has also Wondrous Rewards for the Encouraging of Piety, and Equity and Sabbatizing and Almsgiving, even in the Life that now is. And good Order Flourishing among any People, has a Natural Tendency to befriend many Points of their Temporal Prosperity; Righteousness will Exalt a Nation.

If every Individual Believer be still Obnoxious to the Things that are not Joyous but Grievous, how can a People consisting of such, look for an Exemption from them? It is true, the Israelites had a Promised Land, wherein they might hope for a Temporal Prosperity, while they kept the Condition of the Covenant by which they held it. But the Christian Church, is got out of that Minority. Nor has our SAVIOUR Promised His Church any Land flowing with Milk and Honey in this Present Evil World. We actually see this, in every Generation; That the most Reformed People of GOD (the Vaudois for That!) have been harassed with Persecutions, as well as they that by Sinking into Criminal Corruptions have Provoked the Holy JESUS to say, I have something against thee; At the same time, they that Work Wickedness, have not wanted for Exaltation. Yea, let us look where we will at this Day; The People among whom the Covenant of the Gospel