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H.OLY
EpRTITUDE,
DERM.
XXX11.
Christ,
he
can
bid pains and anguish
of
body
go
or
come
.as
he
pleases; nor can
they
seize
you
without
his com-
mission,
nor
tarry
with you beyond his
appointed
mo-
ment.
'
Commit your
flesh
to him as
well
as
your spirit:
He
is
a
Wise
physician,
and
he
will
deal
tenderly
with
You
:
He
has
worn
flesh
and
blood,
and
has
a
sympa-
thizing
heart, nor
will
he
grieve
his own
members
be-
yond what
his wisdom
and
his
love
sees
needful.
Are
you
afraid
of
persecuting
enemies,
that
hunt
you
from place to
place,_
and
would
pursue you
even
to
death?
.
Remember
that
they are
but
the.
slaves
of
Satan,
and
they
and their master are
all
in
a
chain, under
the
sovereign dominion
of
Christ
your
Lord. The
wicked
öf
the
earth,
in this sense,
are called the hand
of
God,
Ps.
xvii.
14.
They are
.but
as
instruments
to execute
his
divine
purposes, and they
cannot
move
nor act
beyond
his permission.
He put
a hook in the
nostrils
of
Senna-
cherib,
that
Assyrian, wild
beast,
and
a
bridle into
his
jaws;
he suffered him to
cotne
and
gaze
at Jerusalem,
then
in
one
night
the angel
of death
destroyed all
his
ar-
my,'
and
the
Lord
put
a
song
of
triumph into the mouth
of
his
people.
In a
time
of
persecution
in
the
last
century,
some
pious
ministers
were
met
together, expressing
their.
mu-
trial fears,
and consulting
how to
provide
for
their
own
safety:
When
one stood up
in
the
spirit of
faith,
and
ïáid,
"
We
are
all
immortal
till
our
work
is
done
;"
where
-
bÿ
he
declared
his lively sense
of the restraining power
of
God
over the malice
of
men,
and
his
assurance
that
God
would
preserve them
in
life, so
long
as
he had any
service
to employ them
in.
This
was
in
truth
a sublime
thought:
A.
Roman orator, or a
Greek
poet,
would have
been admired
and
celebrated
for
it
by
all the critics
:
This
was,
the language
of
faith, and
it had a sublime and
glo-
rious
effect,
it dispersed their fears
at
once,
and
they
,went
away
rejoicing.
VII.
Recollect your
own
experiences of the
goodness
of
.God in
carrying
you
through former
seasons
of
danger
and
sorrow.
I
will
remember,
says
David, the
works
of
the Lord,
and
his wonders of
old,
Ps. lxxvii.
11.
I
will
remember
the special
deliverances
I
have obtained
in
times of
most
imminent
peril.
Think
with
yourselves
how
high the.tempest
of your
fears has sometimes
risen,