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A26794	Bates, William, 1625-1699.	The great duty of resignation to the divine will in afflictions enforced from the example of our suffering Saviour / by William Bates ...	1684		.xml	application/xml	29183	1078	62	But the Decree of God is not the Rule of our Duty , and Secret , till manifested by the event of things . Some are discouraged and over-born by Afflictions as insupportable : others are stubborn and careless , and never lay them to heart : they never look upward to the original efficient Cause , an Offended God ; nor inward to the impulsive deserving Cause , their Sins ; but esteem them fortuitous Events that happen in this mutable state , without a design to correct and reform Sinners ; or to proceed from a blind necessity , things of course ; or meerly regard the second Causes and Instruments of their Troubles : accordingly , when they meet with Calamities , all their care is by a perverse shift to seek for relief onely in Temporal Comforts ; without serious applying themselves to God , whose end in sending Troubles , is to reclaim us from Sin to Holiness , from Earth to Heavens , from the Creatures to himself .	cache/A26794.xml	txt/A26794.txt
