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pleases. Comfort yourself with Him who holds you
fastened to the cross. He will loose you when He
thinks fit. Happy those who suffer with Him. Accustom yourself to suffer in that manner, and seek from
Him the strength to endure as much, and as long, as
He shall judge to be necessary for you. The men of
the world do not comprehend these truths, nor is it to
be wondered at, since they suffer like what they are, and
not like Christians. They consider sickness as a pain
to nature, and not as a favor from GOD; and seeing it
only in that light, they find nothing in it but grief and
distress. But those who consider sickness as coming
from the hand of GOD, as the effect of His mercy, and
the means which He employs for their salvation — such
commonly find in it great sweetness and sensible consolation.
I wish you could convince yourself that GOD is
often (in some sense) nearer to us, and more effectually
present with us, in sickness than in health. Rely upon
no other physician; for, according to my apprehension,
He reserves your cure to Himself. Put, then, all your
trust in Him, and you will soon find the effects of it in
your recovery, which we often retard by putting greater
confidence in physic than in GOD.
Whatever remedies you make use of, they will succeed only so far as He permits. When pains come
from GOD, He only can cure them. He often sends
diseases of the body to cure those of the soul. Comfort yourself with the sovereign Physician both of the
soul and body.
Be satisfied with the condition in which GOD places
you; however happy you may think me, I envy you.
