tossed craz'd and crack'd n Acts 9.16 I will shew him saith Christ how great Things he must suffer for my Name Which Lesson he had so o 2 Co. 6.4 c. patiently and perfectly conn'd within a while that he Doctor-like layes it down as an undoubted Axiom or inevitable doom which ye will That p 2 T. 3.12 Acts 14.22 Jo. 16.33 1 Th. 3.4 All that will live godly in Christ Jesus not onely may but must suffer Persecution Good Hezekiah gives the Reason of al This q Isa 38.16 O Lord saith he by these things to wit Chastisements Men live c. As if they were as needfull and certain to the Saints as their very r Ps 23.4 Mic. 7.14 Food and Raiment without these were but s Isa 38.16 dead Men or t Ps 119.67,176 Vagrants u Heb. 12.8 at best Yea the Spirit of Christ himself saith That if either we be u Heb. 12.8 Without Chastisement or x Pr. 3.11 Heb. 12.5 weary faint under it We are but y Pr. 24.10 weaklings cowards z Heb. 12.8 Bastards Nay a a Am. 6.1 Wo is pronounced to them that are at ease in Zion and a b Zep. 3.1,2,5 Curse to the Incorrigible and Impudent By all which God would make Correction a greater Argument of his Love then most if not all other his Mercies and our c Deu. 8.5 compared with 6. strongest Tye to Obedience And behold as well d Ps 103.14 Mat. 8.17 1 Co. 10.13 Heb. 2.18 to comfort as confirm us in this Truth we have a most gracious and glorious e 2 Co. 4.10 Gal. 6.17 Ph. 3.10 Col. 1.24 Heb. 2.17 12.2,3 1 P. 2.21 3.18 Patern of the f Isa 53.4,5,9 Mat. 27.4,19,24 M. 9.39 14.55,56 L. 23.14,15,22,41 Jo. 10.32 14.30 18.38 19.6 most innocent the most g Isa 53.3,8 Mat. 26.38 27.35 M. 14.34 15.24 L. 23.33 Jo. 19.18 Acts 2.23 3.15 4.10 1 Co. 1.23 Gal. 3 1. Heb. 2.9 12 2. Rev. 5.9 11 8. oppressed and yet h Isa 53.7 Acts 8.32 Mat. 26.62 63. M. 14.60 15.3 L. 23.9 Heb. 12.2,3 1 P. 2.23 Rev. 1.9 most patient Sufferer set before us In these Respects it is not Pride but Duty in the poorest Christian to have the like Reckoning of himself and Resolution to stand it out which Nehemiah had when he said i Neh. 6.11 Should such a Man as I flee This Point may yet be briefly illustrated by the Contrary to wit That Silence and Impunity upon sinfull Causes are sad Presages of l Job 12.6 c. 21.9,30 27 14 Ps 73.5 c. Hos 4.14,17 9.12 13.12 final Desertion in God and strong Arguments of m Lev. 19.17 Pr. 13.24 23.13,14 hellish Hatred in Man in whom as there is an n Gen. 38,15,16 Jud. 16.15 1 S. 18.7,20 2 S. 13.1,2,4,15 2 Ch. 19.2 Est 2.2,3,4 7,9,17 Ps 7.13 â—8 21.17 Eccl. 5.10 Isa 1.23 Jer. 4.30 Ez. 16.33 23.11 Hos 2.5 Mat. 10.37 Ro. 1.24,26,27 Ph. 3.19 Col. 3.5 1 Th. 4.5 2 T. 3.2,4 inordinate Love and o 1 S. 2.16,17.22,23,24,29 15.3 9,18,19 1 K. 20 28,32,34,42 1 Co. 5.1,2,5,13 sinfull Pity so there is an p Eccl 3.8 Eph 4.26 allowable and holy Anger and oft times not to be angry is to sin And albeit Christ often speaks of his Fury Wrath and Indignation q 2 Ch 34.21,25 Isa 42.25 Jer. 4.4 17.4 44.6 Lam 2.3.4 Ez 9.8 22.31 Dan 9.11 Nah 1.6 burning or powred out and r Isa 5.25 Hos 5.10 Am 5.6 the like Yet are these but Expressions and Effects of his just and gracious Jealousie yea of his s L. 11.49 Wisdom in way of our t Isa 1.25 4.4 27.7,9 Ez. 22.19,20,21,22 Dan 11.35 Am 9.9 Mal 3.3 Mat 3.12 Jo 15.2 Refining and in Order either to our u Hos 2.7 5.15 L. 15.14,16,17 18,19 mediate or x Job 5.26 Mat 13.47,48,49 24,31 25.32 M. 13.27 final and universal Reducement not utter destruction for when he hath done he y Isa 10.12,26 30.31 37.38 Rev 20.2,3 burns or breaks the Rod And he saith elsewhere that z Isa 27.4 Ps 30.5 103.13,14 Lam 3.33 Fury is not in him toward his People What though his Members be slain and a Job 14.14 19.26,27 1 Co 15.36,37,38,42,43,53 consumed here as to Mans eye yet shall they certainly be b Job 19.26,27 Ps 36.9 Isa 26.19 43.6,7 Am 9.9 M. 12.26,27 L 20.37,38 21.18 Jo 5.21 6.39,40 Acts 26.8,23 1 Co 6.14 15.12,13,16,20,22,23,52 2 Co 1.9 4.14 5.10 Col 3.4 1 Th 4.14,16,18 2 T 4.1 Tit 2.13 1 P 1.7 1 Jo 3.2 Rev 20.12,13 raised and c Jo 17.2,11,21,22,23,24,26.1 T 4.17 re-united to their Head And if the d Acts 20.23 Ph 1.14 Phil 10. Bonds e Job 16 20. Ps 126.5,6 Mat 5.4 L 6.21 Acts 20.31 2 Co 2.4 Ph 3.18 2 T 1.4 Tears or f Jo 12.25 Acts 20.14 21.13 21.20 Rev 2.13 6.11 12.11 Bloud of Saints and Martyrs be in part the seed of the Church militant what manner of Fruit may we expect in the Church triumphant Surely g Ps 126.5,6 Isa 25.8 2 T 4.8 Rev 4.4 7.13,14,16 17. 21.4 most pleasant and precious By all that hath been said and h Ps 89.32,33 99.8 141.5 Pr 3.12 27.6 29.15 Isa 1.5 60.10 Jer 2.30 Am 3 2 4.9 Hag 2.17 L 6.22,23 Heb 12.6,7 1 P 4.14 Rev 3.19 yet more it is evident enough to Any that will see That the sharpest Rebuke or Correction is compatible and consistent with the choicest and dearest Love which is presumed to be 'twixt Christ and his Church Husband and Wife and Punishment being as above distinguished from Judgement whom hath Christ now to punish or Correct but the Church his Wife and what of his Wife but her or rather i See p 33. e. his own Body which he both so l See p 30. c. d. dearly purchased and highly prizeth as is plentifully proved Surely none In summ his Relation Interest Prerogative and Power in and over his Creature his Church his Spouse being so evident indisputable infinit and irresistible it must needs rest in his own good Pleasure what Deportment he will use toward her Yet that all the World may see that he is no Tyrant he pleaseth to prescribe to himself certain Bounds and Rules of m Gen. 18.25 Job 34.23 Pr. 16.11 Isa 3.13 45.19 21. Jer. 25.31 Ez. 20.35 Joel 3.2 Mic. 6.2 Zep. 3.5 Justice n Ex. 34.6 2 Ch. 30.9 Neh. 9.17,31 Job 33.24 Ps 103.8 116.5 145.8,9 Isa 30.18,19 Jer. 3.12 Lam. 3.22,33 Joel 2.13 Jon. 4.2 Zec. 9.9 Ro. 2.4 1 T. 1.16 Heb. 8.12 2 P. 3. 9. Mercy and Moderation in Government Which if the