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Whatever a true Believer doth lose, he should rejoice, because the Grounds, and Reasons, and Causes of Joy do still remain: and in every Case and Condition of life, should give thanks to God; for as much as the Good that continueth to him, doth exceed the Evils that do befall him: This is God's revealed Will; making it our ⟨p. 129⟩Duty, for the great Blessings we receive from him by Christ. Job's sorrow for the loss of ten Children in one day by a strange unusual death, added to all his former Losses (making his Case more sorrowful than yours) was kept within such Bounds, as that he was able, even then to bless and praise the Lord. Job 1.19. —They are dead— 21. He said, naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither; the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. In your sorrow, try if you can do so; if not, judge whether it be not over-much.

Whatever a true Believer doth lose, he should rejoice, because the Grounds, and Reasons, and Causes of Joy do still remain: and in every Case and Condition of life, should give thanks to God; for as much as the Good that continueth to him, doth exceed the Evils that do befal him: This is God's revealed Will; making it our ⟨p. 129⟩Duty, for the great Blessings we receive from him by Christ. Job's sorrow for the loss of ten Children in one day by a strange unusual death, added to all his former Losses (making his Case more sorrowful than yours) was kept within such Bounds, as that he was able, even then to bless and praise the Lord. Job 1.19. —They are dead— 21. He said, naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither; the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. In your sorrow, try if you can do so; if not, judge whether it be not over-much.