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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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.
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 bee tempted above what you are able to bear.
IV. If you would bear you afflictions Christian-like, you must bear them fruitfully, by labouring to make a sanctified use and improvement of them, whereby they will become comfortable blessings unto you; for a sanctified affliction is a great blessing.
Q. What course should I take to have my afflictions so sanctified unto me, that I may be able to say with David, 1It is good for me that I have been afflicted?