This Pagan Fable will bear a Christian Moral, for more People Worship
for Fear, and for Interest, then for Love and Devotion. As the _Indians_
do the _Devils_, That they may not Hurt ’em. It teaches us farther, that
we are not to take Pet, or Despond, under any Cross or Calamity that the
Almighty is pleas’d to lay upon us. The Judgments of Heaven are Just,
let them fall never so Heavy, they are yet less then we deserve. The
Devil Himself, when he was let loose upon _Job_, could not Transport
That Patient, Good Man beyond his Temper, or make him Quit his Hold.
Resignation and Perseverance are All that a Man has to Trust to in This
Extremity. There’s no Good to be done by Struggling, nor any way left
us to make our Peace with, but to try by Faith, Prayer, and a New Life,
if we can make our Offended Master Once again our Friend. So that upon
the Upshot, Afflictions are but the Methods of a Merciful Providence, to
Force us upon the only Means of setting Matters Right, betwixt Divine
Justice and Humane Frailty.