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cross blossoms with grace
and
glory.
Put
them
in mind
of
the
examples
of
divine deliverance, when
there
has
been
no
outward prospect
of
help and
hope.
Lead
then
to
a
meditation
of
the heavenly state
:
Point
their
thoughts upward
:
Direct
their
faith
and their hope
thi-
ther:
teach them to look
at
the things
that
are
unseen
and
eternal,
that
they
may
be
able
in
the
language
of
faith
to
say,
"
These light
afflictions which
are but
:for
a
moment,
are
working
for
us
an
eternal
weight
of
glory,"
Col.
iv. 17.
.
There
are
no sorrows among the
inhabitants
of
heaven,
no sufferings there,
no
pain,
no
complaint
;
nor
is
there
any need
of
your consolations: This
is
a
work
you
can-
not
do
in paradise,
but
God
delights
to see
his
children
here comfort
one
another
in
their
travels
through
this
valley
of
tears, this tiresome wilderness
:
I
Thess.
iv.
18.
Then
let
us give
our
fellow
-
Christians
their due
of
conso
lation,
and
offer
to
our
God the
sacrifice
of
his-delight.
VI.
Forbearance
and
forgiveness
of
real
or
supposed
injuries,
is
a
grace to
be
practised only
by
the living
christian. Christ
Jesus our Lord
demands
it,
and
Iays
a
bar
upon your
hopes
of
the
forgiveness
of
God,
if
ye
re--
fase
it
to
your
fellow
-
creatures
:
IWat.
vi. 14, 15.
And
the great
apostle entreats
you to
practise
it; put
on
therefore, as the
elect
of
God, holy
and
beloved,
bowels
of
mercies,
kindness, humbleness
of
mind,
meekness,
.long
suffering; forbearing
one
another, and
forgiving
one
another,
if
any man
bath
a
quarrel
against
any
:Even
as
Christ
forgave
you,
.
so
also
do
ye;
Col.
iii.
12,
13.
Charity,
or
love,
as
it
should
be
translated,
suffers long,
beareth
all things,
and hopeth
all things
;
and
though
.
considered in the general
notion
of
love
to the saints,
it
lives for ever
in
heaven
;
yet these special exercises
of
it
belong to this world.
Charity or
love
is
not
easily
pro
yoked, it
thinketh
no
evil,
gives
every thing
the
best
turn that
it
will
bear, and
puts the
best
sense
upon
all
things
that
are.
spoken.
O
that
every.
living
christian
might
adorn
his
profession with the exercise
of
this.
virtue
;
1
Cor. xüi. 4
-8.
Meekness
is
a grace
which has no place
in
theupper
world, in this respect,
that
it
has
no
trials there. Glorify
God your
Saviour
therefore
in
the days
of
your
trial
here
below,
and
be
ye.
meek
and
lowly
as
he
was
;.be
:ye