§. 3. More grounds of Comfort arising from their voluntary suffring, their disinteressed Love of God, and exact conformity with his holy Will.
IN the next place, take this most * 1.1 sweet and weighty Considera∣tion. An evill that is forced and against ones will, is a true evill in∣deed, the constraint and violence it carries along with it, imbitters it above measure, and renders it insupportable; whereas if the e∣vill be voluntary, it is a good evill, a lovely evil, an evill to be pur∣chased at any rate: Witnesse the ho••y Martyrs of Gods Church,