at _all Things shall
work together for good to them that love him_[t]: And do I not love
him? Answer, Oh my Heart, dost thou not love thy GOD much better than
all the Blessings which Earth can boast, or which the Grave hath
swallowed up? Wouldst thou resign thine Interest in him to recover
these precious Spoils, to receive this dear Child from the Dust, a
thousand times fairer and sweeter than before? Rather let Death devour
every remaining Comfort, and leave me alone with him; with whom when I
indeed am, I miss not the Creatures, but rather rejoice in their
Absence, as I am then more intire with _him whom my Soul loveth._ And
if I do indeed love him, this Promise is mine, and _all Things_, and
therefore this sad Event in particular, _shall work together for my
good._ Shall I not then say, _It is well?_ What if it exceeded all the
Stretch of my Thoughts, to conceive _how_ it could, in any Instance,
be so? What are my narrow Conceptions, that they should pretend to
circumscribe infinite Wisdom, Faithfulness, and Mercy? Let me rather,
with _Abraham, give Glory to God, and in Hope believe against
Hope_[u]".

ONCE more; let us consider how many _invaluable Blessings_ are given
us by this Covenant, and then judge whether we have not the utmost
Reason to acquiesce in such an Event of Providence. "If I am in
Covenant with God," may the Believer say, "then he hath pardoned my
Sins, and renewed my Heart, and hath made his blessed Spirit dwelling
in me, the sacred Bond of an everlasting Union between him and my
Soul. He is leading me through the Wilderness, and will, ere long,
lead me out of it to the heavenly _Canaan_. And how far am I already
arrived in my Journey thither, now that I am come to the Age of losing
a Child! And when GOD hath done all this for me, is he rashly to be
suspected of Unkindness? _He that spared not his own Son_[w], he that
gave me with him his Spirit and his Kingdom, why doth he deny, or why
doth he remove, any other Favour? Did he think the Life of this Child
too great a Good to grant, when he thought not Christ and Glory too
precious? Away with that Thought, Oh my unbelieving Heart, and with
every Thought which would derogate from such rich amazing Grace, or
would bring any thing in comparison with it. Art thou under these
Obligations to him, and wilt thou yet complain? With what Grace, with
what Decency canst thou dispute this, or any other Matter, with thy
GOD? _What Right have I yet to cry any mor