Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

Second It may serve as a st••• house for Christian contentment and […] under worldly losses and crosses A close application or the […] of death it an excellent remedy against fretting; and gives some ease to a rankled heart. When Job had sustained very great ⟨p. 221⟩l• […] contented, with the […] Naked […] shall I return thither: The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the […] of the Lord When providence br• […] mortality or […] cattle, •ow ready are you […] complain! But the […] consideration of your own […] which you have a not• […] from such provide […]) may be of use to silence […] and quiet you rankled spirits. Lo•• to i e […] •ing, and learn. (1.) That ye must abide a sorer thrust than the loss of […] good Do not cry out for a thrust i• the […] there will be a home-thrust at the heart You […] lose your dearest relations: the wife may lose her husband; and the husband his wife: the parents may lose their dear children, and the […]. But if any of these trials happen to you, remember you must lose your own life at last: and "Wherefore doth a ••ng man complains." […] It is a•s profitable to consider, under affliction, how our case m••ht have been worse that it is. Whatever […] consumed, or taken from us, "It is of the Lord's mercies that we ourselves are not consumed," ver. 22. (2) It is but for a short space of time we are to be in this world. It is but little our necessities require in this short space of •e; when death comes, we will stand in need of none of these things. Why should men rack their head with cares how to provide for tomorrow: while they know not if they shall need any thing tomorrow Tho' a man's provision, for his journey, be near sp•t, he is not disquieted, if he think he is near home▪ are you work […] ought, and is there little of your candle left? It may be there is as little sand in your glass? and if so, ye have little use for it. (3.) Ye have matters of greater weight that challenge your care Death's at the do b are you lose not your souls. If blood break out at one part of the body, they use to open a vein in another part of it to turn the stream of blood; and so to stop it Thus the Spirit of God sometimes cries men of sorrow for earthly things; by opening the heart-vein to blood for sin. Did we pursue heavenly things the more vigorously th our affairs in this life prosper not, we should thereby gain a double […]: