Chapter 2. Containing the Grand Proposition

2. I Pass to the second, the excellency of the Privilege: All things work together for good. This is a Jacobs staff in the hand of faith, with which we may walk cheerfully to the Mount of God: what will satisfy or give content, if this will not? All things work together for good. This word [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉]work together, is a Physical expression. Several poisonful ingredients put together, being tempered by the skill of the Apothecary, make a Sovereign Medicine, and work together for the good of the Patient. So all Gods Providences being divinely tempered and sanctified, do work together for the best to the Saints. He who loves God, and is called according to his purpose, may say to his soul, Soul take thy ease, for, there is much good laid up for thee, every thing in the world shall be for thy good. This is a Christians Cordial, which may cause the color to come in his face, and make him like Jonathan, who when he had tasted the honey at the end of the rod his eyes were enlightened, 1 Samuel 14:27. Why should a Christian exenterate himself? Why should he kill himself with care, when all things shall sweetly concur, yea conspire for his good? The result of the Text is this,

Doctrine. That all the various dealings of God with his Children, do by a special Providence turn to their good.

Psalm 25:10. All the paths of the Lord are mercy unto such as keep his Covenant. If every path hath mercy in it, then it works for good.

1. What things work for good to the Godly.

2. Why all things work for good to the Godly.

1. What things are they which work for good to the Elect? - 1. The best things. - 2. The worst things.