A Diary of Some of the Religious Exercises And Experience of Samuel Scott
A Diary of Some of the Religious Exercises And Experience of Samuel Scott
Samuel Scott
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Ah ! were there probability of strength, how I could enlarge, for my heart seems melted within me in retrospective view 5 but all the former conflicts, however grievous in their time, are lighter now than vanity, except as they are clearly seen to have contributed largely to the sanctification of the soul j as they are remembered with awfulness and gra- titude before Him, who has not been wanting to preserve through them all ; and as they seem likely to introduce, either very shortly, or before... a very long time, to an exceeding and eternal weight of glory/ * When afflictions are thus viewed; when, as to duration, they are compared with the per- manence of those joys which they may be said to produce ; and as to severity, with that exceeding weight of glory which they ensure ; great will bt the encouragement to seek for patience during * See Piety Promoted, Job Scot!, xm their continuance, and not small the desire, that the design, in their prevalence, may be fulfilled. Considerations of this kind are well adapted to a state of probation, of infancy, and twilight; where seeing only as through a glass, darkly, we know but in part-, and truly profitable, as they tend to prepare for an entrance into those realms, where they see face to face, and know, even as they are known ; where that which is in part, shall be done away by that which is perfect being come.
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