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Let us not judge of God’s word by His providence, but rather
judge of His providence by His word. We must not think that the
promise of crowns and of rivers of pleasures is made void
because at present we are subjected to the cross. Many promises
have seems to be forgotten by the Promiser, and yet have been
exactly fulfilled in their season. God’s word is established in
the heavens, although it may seem, to our narrow views, to be
buried under the earth. [27]
Let us not be greatly dejected by adversity, let us not trust in
prosperity. [109]
It would be good for us if we could entertain the same views of
sin in the time of temptation that we are likely to have after
it is committed, or at the time when trouble brings it home to
our consciences. [150]
Do you, then, think that God does not love His poor people in
this world because He does not give them more than they need to
use in this land of their pilgrimage? Does He not rather show
His love by giving them only so much of the good things of life
as will satisfy all their reasonable desires, without laying
them under too strong temptations to forget that better country
which ought to be ever in their view? [290]
Neither the loss of money, not the loss of sight, nor the loss
of the present life, can make that man miserable whose hope is
in the Lord his God. [412]
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