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DISC.
DO
NO
PAIN
AMONG
THE
'BLESSED.""
499
posed
offence,
or
even sometimes without provocation.
o
happy state and
blessed
mansions
of
the
saints, when
this body
of
sin
shall
be
destroyed,
and all the restless
atoms
that disquieted
the
flesh,
and provoked the
spirit
to
impatience, shall
be
buried
-in
the dust
of
death, and ne-
ver,
never rise
again
!
6.
"
Pain carries
a
temptation
with
it,
sometimes to
repine and murmur
at
the providence
of
God."
Not
fa-
low-creatures
alone,
but
even
our
sovereign
Creator
comes within the reach
of
The
peevish humours,: which
are alarmed and roused
by
sharp or continual
pain.
Jo-
nah
the
prophet,
when
he felt the
sultry
heat
of
the
sun
smite fiercely upon
hirn,
and the gourd
which gave
hint
a friendly
shadow
was
withered
away,
he told
God
him-
self
in
a
passion,
that
"
he did
well
to
be angry, even
unto
death,"
Jonah
iv.
9.
And
even
the man
of
Uz;
the
pattern of
patience, was sometimes
transported with
the
smart and maladies that
were
upon
him,
so
that
he
complained
against God,
as well as
complained
to him,
and used
some
very
unbecoming expressions
toward
his
his
Maker.
When
we
are under
the
smarting rebukes
of providence, we are
ready
to
compare ourselves
with
others who
are
in
peace,
and then
the envious
and
the,
murmuring
humour
breaks out into rebellious language,
"
Why
am
I
thus
afflicted
more than others
?
Why
hast
thou
set
me as
a
mark for
thy
arrows? Why
dost
thou;
not let
loose thy
hand and
cut
me
off
from
the earth?
".<<k
But
in
heaven there
is
a
glorious reverse
of
all
such
unhappy scenes:
There
is
no pain
nor
any
temptation
to
murmur
at
the dealings
of
the Almighty:
There
is
no
-.
thing
that
can incline
us
to think
hardly of God
:
The
days
of
chastisement are
for
ever ended, and
painful
disci-
pline shall
be
used no more.
We
shall live
for ever
in
the
embraces
of
the
love
of
God, and
he
shall
be
the
object
of our everlasting
praise:
Perfect
felicity
without the
interruption
of
one
uneasy thought, or ever forbids
the
inhabitants of that
world
to
repine
'ut
their situation
un-
der
the
eternal
smiles
of
that
blessed being
that
made
them:
7.
To
add
no more,
"
Pain
and anguish
of
the flesh
have sometimes
prevailed
so
far
as to
distract
the mind
as
well as
destroy
the
body."
It
has overpowered
all
the
::
reasoning faculties
of
man
;
it
hal
destroyed
natural
life,
and
brought
it
down
to
the
grave: The
senses
have been
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