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NO
PAIN
AMONG
THE BLESSED.
DISC.
It.
fault,
that,
I,
fear
it
is
too
much excused
and indulged.
Let
me
rather
say with myself,
"
My God
is
now
put-
twg
me to
the
trial
what
scut
of christian
I
am,'
and
how
much I
have
learned
of
self-
government,
and
through
his
grace
I
will
subdue
my
uneasy
passions,
though
I
cannot
relievemny
pain."
.O"
it
is
a
noble
point of honour
gained
in a
sick
chamber, or
on a
bed of
anguish, to
lie
pressed
with
extreme
pain,
and yet maintain a serenity and
calm-
ness
of
soul;,
to be
all meekness,
and
gentleness, and
pa-
tience, among our friends
or
attendants, under the
sharp
twinges
of
it;
to
utter
no
rude or angry
language, and
to
take
every
thing
kindly
that
they
say:
or
do,
and
be-
come like
a weaned
child
;
Ps..
cxxxi.
2.
But
such
a
character
is
not
found
in
every
house.
A holy
spul,
through
the severity
of
pain,
may some-
times
in
such
an hour
be too much ruffled
by
violent and
sudden
fits
of
impatience.
This proceeded
to such
a
de-
gree even
in
that
good man
Job,
under
his
various cala-
mities and the
sore boils
upon
his flesh,
that
made
him
curse the day wherein he
was
born, and cry
out
in
the
anguish of
his
spirit,
"
my
soul chuseth strangling
and
death
rather
than.life;"
Job
iii.
l
-10.
and
vii.
15.
and
there
have been
several instances of those
who,
having
not
the fear
of God
before
their
eyes,
with hasty
violence and
murderous
hands,
have
put
an end to their
own
lives,
through their wildand
sinful
impatience of constant
pain.
But
these trials
are
for ever finished
when
this
life
ex-
pires
:
Then
all
our pains are ended for ever
if
we
are
found among
the
children of
God. There
is
not,
nor
can
be
any
temptation
in
heaven,
to
fretfulness or
dis-
quietude of mind
:
All
the peevish passions
are
dropped
into the
grave,
together
with
the
body
of
flesh
;
and those
evil
humours
which were the sources
of smart
and anguish
here
on
earth
have
no'
place in the
new
-raised
body:
'T
hose
irregular juices of
animal
nature
which
tormented
the
nerves,
and
excited pain
in
the
flesh,
.
and
which
at
the
same time
provoked choler and
irritated, the
spirit,
are
never
found
in
the heavenly
mansions..
There
is
no-
thing but peace and
pleasure,.
joy
and
love,
goodness and
benevolence, ease
and satisfaction
diffused
through
all
the regions
on high
There
are
no
inward springs
of
un-
easiness
to
ruffle
the
mind
"none
of
those fretful ferments
which
were
wont
to
kindle
in
the mortal
body, .and ex-
plode
themselves
with fire
and
thunder
upon.every,sup-