Sickness, its trials and blessings.

  • Maurice, Priscilla, 1810-
Date:
1859
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Credit: Sickness, its trials and blessings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Perliaps you are tried by being able to re- member bad things, but too easily, althougli the better things depart from you. Perhaps they may be things which you have heard years ago, heard accidentally, which you would not for the world have heard or known; or things which you think so bad, that you could not have heard them. Yet now in your weakness these things start up, and tease, and haunt you, and make you think yourself given over to Satan to be tempted. This is indeed a very sore trial, but a very common one. That Satan does take advantage of our weakness, there can be no doubt; but there is One stronger than he, who will not suffer us to be tempted above tliat we are able ; but will with every temptation make a way for our escape He who was tempted of Satan knows your sorrow. He was not only tempted by, but overcame, the devil. He over- came him for you. The devil shall not have dominion over you ^ ;but do not take the matter into your own hands ; do not parley with the tempter, or he will tempt you fur- ther. Say at once, Get thee behind me, Satan : for thou savourest not of the things of God Do not listen to him, go on crying to your Father, as if no voices were spoken into your ears; and if still they drown the voice of your petition, cry the more earn- 8 1 Cor. X. 13. Rom. vi. 14. ' Mark viii. 33.
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