that do aggravate their own sorrow, and cause their wound to bleed afresh, putting themselves in mind of their own crosses and losses. It is observable of Rachel and Jacob; it is said of Rachel, Genesis 35. 17, 18. That when she was in hard labour, the midwife said unto her, Fear not: thou shallGen. 35. 17, 18.have this son also. And it came to passe as her soul was in de∣parting that she called his name Benoni, the sort of my sorrow. But observe Jacob he would not have the child called Benoni, but he would have his name Benjamin, the son of my right∣hand, and of my joy, and of my strength: why would not Jacob have it Benoni? if he had the childs name would have put him in remembrance that his wife died in childbed; therefore from the mothers naming of him Benoni, the son of my sorrow, Jacob called him Benjamin the son of my right∣hand; therefore it is fondness in those that look on the Pi∣ctures of dead friends, and on the cloaths of dead friends; all these are but the provocations to more sorrows and more griefs.Ninthly, Consider the end that God aims at why you are afflicted as well as the measure, and the degree how much you are afflicted; this is the great ground of impatiency, that people do consider the measure how much, and the time how long they are afflicted, but they do not call to mind why they are afflicted: I may exemplifie this rule by this. A Physician and an Enemy may doe the same Act to a man; yet you know a man will bear with a Physician to let him blood, but he will not endure an enemy to let him blood; the reason is this, because he knoweth the Physicians end is to cure him, but the Enemy doth it to kill him; yet both let blood. Why Beloved, dost thou consider that Gods end to thy soul in sending afflictions upon thee, is to cure thee, to purge thee of sinful maladies in thy soul? why let the end countervail the measure; the how much, and the time how long thou art afflicted, and this will allay all unquietness, and inordinate trouble in thy mind.Tenthly and Lastly, Consider that God in his wisdome will proportion all afflictions that befall thee in this World according to thy strength that thou art able to bear them. 0