In Times Of Affliction We Commonly Meet

Therefore If Mine Enemy Hunger, Let Me Feed Him; If He Thirst, Let Me Give Him Drink. Now In Order To Do This, (1) We Must See Good In That, In Which Other Men Can See None. (2) We Must Pass By Those Injuries That Other Men Would Revenge. (3) We Must Show We Have Grace, And That We Are Made To Bear What Other Men Are Not Acquainted With. (4) Many Of Our Graces Are Kept Alive, By Those Very Things That Are The Death Of Other Men's Souls.... The Devil, (they Say) Is Good When He Is Pleased; But Christ And His Saints, When Displeased.

Look How Fears Have Presented Themselves, So Have Supports And Encouragements; Yea, When I Have Started, Even As It Were At Nothing Else But My Shadow, Yet God, As Being Very Tender Of Me, Hath Suffered Me To Be Molested, But Would With One Scripture Or Another, Strengthen Me Against All; Insomuch That I Have Often Said, Were It Awful, I Could Pray For Greater Trouble, For The Greater Comfort's Sake.

The God In Whose Hands Are All Our Days And Ways, Did Cast Into My Hand (one Day) A Book Of Martin Luther's ; It Was His Comment On The Galatians! ... I Found My Condition In His Experience So Largely And Profoundly Handled, As If His Book Had Been Written Out Of My Heart ... I Do Prefer This Book Of Martin Luther Upon The Galatians, Excepting The Holy Bible, Before All The Books That Ever I Have Seen, As Most Fit For A Wounded Conscience.

Great Sins Do Draw Out Great Grace; And Where Guilt Is Most Terrible And Fierce, There The Mercy Of God In Christ, When Showed To The Soul, Appears Most High And Mighty.

His Love Is What Makes Us Live, Love, Sing, And Praise Forever.