166
A Diſcourſe
Book II.
Chap. VI.
A third Argument for Constancy drawn from utility: Calamities are good both in their Original and End. Their Original is from God; who being eternally and immutably good, cannot be the cause of any Evil.
Langius without any considerable pawse thus began. In my discourse of Constancy it is fit I be constant, I shall therefore observe the same order and method which Yesterday I propounded. Then (as you know) I form'd Four Squadrons (as I call them) to fight in its behalf against grief and dejectedness. The two former of these, from Providence and Necessity; I have already drawn forth, and have sufficiently evinc'd that publick evils are sent down from God; as also that they are necessary
and
