Of what use soever these national judgments are to-others, to be sure they shall be beneficial to God's own people- when-others die by fear, they shall live by faith- if they be baneful poison to-the wicked, they shall be healthful physic to the godly. For,-1. By these calamities God will mortify and purge their corruptions--this winter weather shall be useful to destroy and rot those rank-weeds, which the summer of prosperity bred, Isa. 27-9-The Saint's Refuge