it is because they should not be condem∣ned with the world, 1 Cor. 11, 29. Job 5.17.
When they receive the sentence of death, it is because they should not trust in themselves, but in God who raiseth the dead, 2 Cor. 1.9.
When they are deli∣vered to death for Je∣sus sake, it is that the life of Jesus might bee manifest in their mortal body, 2 Cor 4.10.
When they are affli∣cted and tossed with tempests, so that they have no Comforter, then God supplies a∣bundance of unthought of mercies, Isa. 54.11.
When for a moment in his wrath hee hides his face from them for a little while; yet with everlasting mercie hee hath compassion on them, Isa. 54.9.
Though he make a full end of all Nations amongst whom he scat∣tereth them, yet he will not make a full end of them, but corrects them in measure, though he leave them not altoge∣ther unpunished, Jer. 30.11.
They are happy un∣der their corrections, Job 5.17.
Thereby they are known to be sons and not bastards, Heb. 12.8
They afterward bring unto them the quiet fruit of righteousnesse unto them, the more they are exercised in them, Heb. 12.11.
God maketh their snare and bindeth up; he woundeth, and his hands make whole,
He delivers them in sixe troubles, yea in se∣ven there shall no ev touch them, Job 5.18, 19