The Works of Bishop Sherlock : With Some Account of His Life, Summary of Each Discourse, Notes, &c.
The Works of Bishop Sherlock : With Some Account of His Life, Summary of Each Discourse, Notes, &c.
Sherlock, Thomas
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Years of plenty are a great blessing, but the fruitful- ness of the season is no restraint on you or me ; it is a general blessing, but it makes no distinction between good or evil. Plague and pestilence are general calamities ; they may and ought to awaken all the world to a sober sense of God and themselves ; but their rage is not so directed as to touch the sinners only ; the good perish with the bad, and he that called both out of the world will soon make a difference ; though in the sight ...of the world the end of both was taken to be misery. The same holds true with respect to private f>ersons : God can correct them without breaking in on the ordinary course of his providence. If a man wants to be bowed down by afflic- Digitized by VjOOQ IC 289 SHERLOCK. tions, fevers and agues, and all the tribe of distempers, stBOid ready to obey the order of Providence : but there is no mark to know a fever so sent firom another ; there is no appearance pf the execution of judgment on a person so visited ; the pby^ may be sent because it is wanted, but ike kaad that admini-> sters it does not appear.
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