ANTHONY: We shall therefore, to give it light withal, touch upon
every member of it somewhat more at large.

One member is, as you know, of them that fall in tribulation
through their own certain well-deserving deed, open and known to
themselves, as when we fall in a sickness following upon our own
gluttonous feasting, or when a man is punished for his own open
fault. These tribulations, and others like them, may seem not to be
comfortable, in that a man may be sorry to think himself the cause
of his own harm. Yet hath he good cause of comfort in them, if he
consider that he may make them medicinable for himself if he will.
For whereas there was due to that sin, unless it were purged here,
a far greater punishment after this world in another place, this
worldly tribulation of pain and punishment, by God's good provision
for him put upon him here in this world before, shall by the mean
of Christ's passion, if the man will in true faith and good hope by
meek and patience sufferance of his tribulation so make it, serve
him for a sure medicine to cure him. And it shall clearly discharge
him of all the sickness and disease of those pains that he should
otherwise suffer afterward. For such is the great goodness of
almighty God that he punisheth not the same thing twice.

And albeit that this punishment is put unto the man, not of his own
election and free choice but by force, so that he would fain avoid
it and falleth in it against his will, and therefore it seemeth
worthy of no thanks; yet the great goodness of almighty God so far
surpasseth the poor imperfect goodness of man, that though men make
their reckoning here one with another such, God yet of his high
bounty in man's account alloweth it toward him far otherwise. For