A Treatise On Keeping the Heart Selected From the Works of the Rev John Flavel
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^6 66 FLAVEL ON considerate, ungrateful man ! are not these things, for wiiich thou grievest, the very things that have ruined thousands of souls ? 6. It would much support thy heart under adversity, to consider, that God, by such humbling providences, may be accomplishing that for which you have long prayed and waited. And should you be troubled at that ? Say, Chris- tian, hast thou not many prayers de- pending before God, upon such accounts as these : that he would keep thee from sin ; discov...er to thee the emptiness of the creature ; that he would mortify and kill thy lusts ; that thy heart may never iind rest in any enjoyment but Christ ? By such humbling and impoverishing strokes, God may be fulfilling thy de- sire. Wouldst thou be kept from sin ? Loj he hath hedged up thy way with thorns. Wouldst thou see the creature's vanity ? Thy affliction is a fair glass to discover it ; for the vanity of the crea* KEEPING THE HEART. 67 lure is never no effectually and sensibly discovered, as in our own experience.
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