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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
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3 As God doth intend our good thereby, so when it hath effected that good which God intended thereby, he will soon remove your affliction from you, for the Lord taketh no delight or pleasure in your pains or sufferings, but delighteth in mercy; 1and therefore will not, neither can he suffer his afflicting hand to lye longer upon you, than in his wisdom he seeth to be needful and necessary, for the effecting of that good which he intends you thereby; and therefore if your afflictions seem long unto you, know it is no longer than needs must, and that that good for which God sent it, is not yet effected.
3 As God doth intend our good th•reby, so when it hath effected that good which God intended thereby, hee will soon remove your affliction from you, for the Lord taketh no delight or pleasure in your pains or sufferings, but delighteth in mercy; 1and therefore will not, neither can he suffer his afflicting hand to lye longer upon you, than in his wisdome he seeth to be needful and necessary, for the effecting of that good which he intends you thereby; and therefore if your afflictions seem long unto you, know it is no longer than needs must, and that that good for which God sent it, is not yet effected.
4 That God will either proportion your afflictions to the measure of your strength, or your strength. to the measure of your affliction, laying no more upon you than he will enable you to bear, according to that of the Apostle,1 God is faithful, and will not suffer you to be tempted above what you are able to bear.