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tions and Sufferings were extraordinary, fa 

 they were extraordinarily fupported under 

 them; and that God (as the Apoftle faith) 

 did not fuffer them t-o be tempted above 

 what he enabled them to bear. It feems to 

 me mod likely, that he did quite take away, 

 or very much mitigate the fenfe of pain ; 

 poffibly by obflruding thofe Nerves which 

 convey that motion to the Brain, which ex- 

 cites fuch a fenfe, or how elfe it feemed 

 belt to his Divine Wifdom. 



I proceed now to prove, that this. Blef- 

 fing is the portion of thofe who lead a god- 

 ly Life, who keep God's Commandments, 

 and abide in his Love: And that, i. From 

 the Promifes of God : ^. From the natural 

 coniequence of feveral Virtues commanded 

 by him. Such are, i. Temperance and 

 Sobriety, i. Labor and Induftry. 3. A 

 dye government and moderation of our 

 Paffions. 



i. Health and Long Life, (I put them 

 together, the one for the moil part being 

 the confequent of the other) are in Scrip- 

 ture promised as rewards to the obedience 

 of the Commandments of God. Exod. 

 13.15. Thou /halt ferve the Lord thy God 

 And I will take away Sicknefs from the 



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