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1. Betwixt God and your selves, I mean not only in his infinite wisdom laid against your folly, his infinite justice against your fond and unjust partiality, his infinite goodness against your badness, his infinite greatness against your meanness: but also in the collation of his dealings with your own deservings. A judgment duly poised, will alwaies find sin outweigh suffering: and instead of upbraiding God with its merits, find cause in abundance to deprecate its demerits. He that imputes sin to himself will not dare, whatever he suffer, to impute the least hard or injurious dealing to God: but will patiently bear what he can find none so justly to blame for as himself, as saies Tertullian. Considering that whatever a sinner suffers, that is less than Hell, is so much less than he deserves: so easie a burthen is that which hurts us only in this world, in comparison with that which will damn us to Eternity, that is, suffering than sin! There is not a more quieting consideration in the world, than this duly applyed; |
1. Betwixt God and your selves, I mean not only in his infinite Wisdom laid against your folly, his infinite Justice against your found and unjust partiality, his infinite Goodness against your badness, his infinite greatness against your meanness: but also in the collation of his dealings with your own deservings. A judgement duly poised, will always find since outweigh suffering: and instead of upbraiding God with its merits, find cause in abundance to deprecate its demerits. He that imputes since to himself will not Dare, whatever he suffer, to impute the least hard or injurious dealing to God: but will patiently bear what he can find none so justly to blame for as himself, as Says Tertullian. Considering that whatever a sinner suffers, that is less than Hell, is so much less than he deserves: so easy a burden is that which hurts us only in this world, in comparison with that which will damn us to Eternity, that is, suffering than sin! There is not a more quieting consideration in the world, than this duly applied; |
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