§. 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 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,