O.fearly Aifli8ionA r89 l1ttle do we priz,e our 'health, if we have never had experience of ficknefs or pain ~Where is the man who doth feriou!ly blefs God for his nightly q~:1iet and repofe? And yet, if ficknef~ or trouble deprive us of it, we then find it to have been a great and invaluable n1ercy, and that it is G.od whiJ. t>vet.h his belovedJleep. ' · " . . CJnce n1ore, Profperity rendereth us 111- ~ fcnfible of the n1iferies. and calamities of. others~ Thofe who ·were at eaje in Zion·:, did· not grieve for the affii8ions of Jojeph. _· But affikron·s do foften the heart, and make– it niore tender and kindIy; i!nd \Ve are al.. w:tys · n1ofl: ready to compaffionate· thofe griefs which onrfelves have fotnetime en~ cll)rcd: the fufferings of others make the· deepefl i-tnpreffions upon us, when they put us in n1tnd of our own. - It is mepti-– oned as a po·werful moiive to, engage the children of lfra,el to be kind and merciful to firangers, that-they k-new very 'VJ·ell thct !Jeart ~if' a flranger, havi~£; been (lranger.t themjelves nt Egypt. Now, this tender– and con1paffionate temper doth well be– come a Chriftian, whofe duty it is to .weep, with thoje that ·weep and to have as deep ai' fenfe and f-eeling of the griefs of .others, as he is wont to have of his own. Thcfe
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