Guidance & Wisdom
If I could as easily decline diseases as I could dislike them, I should be immortal.
God suffers sometimes the infirmities of his people to be known by the wicked, who are ready to check and frump them for them, for the end of humbling his people.
Had he not chastened us thus, we might have become too secure. Continued worldly prosperity is a fiery trial.
Behold, we put ourselves as blanks in thine hands, deal with us as seemeth good in thy sight, only let every cross, ever affliction, every temptation, be overruled to the stamping thy blessed image in more lively characters on our hearts.
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