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When they are come to times of affliction they shall be a∣shamed of their own Counsels.* 1.1 Times of affliction makes men asham'd of what they would not be asham'd of before, Jer. 2. 26. Zeph. 3. 11. I remember a notable expression that Sr. Walter Rawleigh hath in his Story;* 1.2 When death comes (saith he) which hates men and destroies men, when that comes, that's beleeved; But God that loves men, and makes men, he is not regarded. Oh Eloquent! Oh! Mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou art able to perswade. That's thus, men that would never be perswaded by any thing else to beleeve that they were not right, yet when death appears that can perswade them: now afflictions are an evil, but how elo∣quent are afflictions? what power have afflictions to per∣swade men that they were wrong, that would not be per∣swaded by all the arguments in the world before? Then they shall be ashamed of their own Counsels. Oh! I beseech you let us take heed of this, let not us go on headily in our own Counsels till God bring us into misery, and then we should be forced to cry out of our own Counsels and be a∣shamed of them.