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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of the worse can make thee miserable. That spiritual part of thine shall ere long be in bliss, while this earthen piece shall lie rotting in the grave. Why shouldst thou not, even now before thy separation, improve all the powers of it to thy present advantage? Let that still behold the face of thy God in glory, while thy bodily eyes look upon those friends at thy bedside, which may pity thee, but cannot help thee. SECTION 2. The Author of Sickness, and the Benefit of it. Thou art pained with sickness: ?Consider seriously, whence it is, that thou thus smartest. ' Affliction com- eth not out of the dust.' Job v. 6. Couldst thou but hear the voice of thy disease, as well as thou feelest the stroke of it, it saith loud enough, Am I come up hither without the Lord to torment thee ? The Lord hath said to me, Go up against this man, and afflict him. 2 Kings xviii. 25. Couldst thou see the hand that smites thee, thou couldst not but kiss it. Why, man, it is thy good God, the Father of all mercies, that lays these stripes upon thee. He that made thee, he that bought thee at so dear a rate as his own blood, it is he that chastiseth thee: and canst thou think he will whip thee, but for thy good ? Thou art a father of children, and art acquainted with thine own bowels: didst thou ever take the rod into thy hand out of pleasure, to smite that flesh which is derived from thine own loins ? Was it any ease to thee, to make thy child smart and bleed; didst thou not suffer more than thou inflict- edst ? Couldst thou not rather have been content to redeem those stripes with thine own ? Y it thou sawest good reason to lay on, and not to spare for his loud crying and many tears, Prov. xix. 18; and canst say thou hadst not loved him, if thou hadst not been so kindly severe. If we then that...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217989633 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217989632 |
| Weight | 1.42 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.98 In |
| List Price | $24.95 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 442 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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