God can lay thee in the dungeon in chains, and roll a stone upon
thee; he can make thy feet fast in the stocks, and make thee a
gazing-stock for men and angels.
God can tell how to cause to cease the sweet operations and blessed
influences of his grace in thy soul; to make those gospel-showers
that formerly thou hast enjoyed, to become now to thee nothing but
powder and dust.
God can tell how to fight against thee with the sword of his mouth,
and to make thee a butt for his arrows; and this is a dispensation
most dreadful.
God can tell how to bow thee down with guilt and distress, that thou
shalt in nowise be able to lift up thy head.
God can tell how to break thy bones, and to make thee, by reason of
that, to live in continual anguish of spirit; yea, he can send a
fire into thy bones that shall burn, and none shall quench it.
God can tell how to lay thee aside, and make no use of thee as to
any work for him in thy generation. He can throw thee aside as a
broken vessel.
God can tell how to kill thee, and take thee away from the earth for
thy sins.
God can tell how to plague thee in thy death, with great plagues and
of long continuance.
What shall I say? God can tell how to let Satan loose upon thee;
when thou liest dying, he can license him then to assault thee with
great temptations; he can tell how to make thee possess the guilt of
all thy unkindness towards him, and that when thou, as I said, art
going out of the world; he can cause that thy life shall be in
continual doubt before thee, and not suffer thee to take any comfort
day or night; yea, he can drive thee even to a madness with his
chastisements for thy folly, and yet all shall be done by him to
thee as a father chastiseth his son.
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