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NO
PAIN
AMONG
THE BLESSED.
CDISC.IX.
day,
or one
hour of
ease
fills
the
heart and
the tongue
with thankfulness
;
"
blessed
be.
the
God of nature that
has
appointed
medicines
to
restore our
ease, and
blessed
be
that
goodness
that
has given success to them
!"
`
/hat
a
rich
mercy
is
it,
under our
acute torments,
that
there
are
methods
of relief
and healing found among the
pow
-
ers
of
nature, among
the
plants
and the herbs, and the
mineral stores
which are
under ground
?
Blessed be
the
Lord,
who in
the course
of
his
providence
has given
skill
to
physicians
to
compose
.and
to
apply
the
proper
means
of
relief
!
Blessed
be
that
hand
that
has
planted.every herb
in
the
field
or the garden, and
has
made the
bowels
of
the earth
to
teem
with
medicines
for
the recovery
of
our
health
and
ease
;
and
blessed
be his
name who has
re-
buked our
maladies,
who
has
constrained
the
smarting
diseases to
depart
by
the
use
of
balms
and
balsams
that
are
happily applied
!
While
we
enjoy the benefits
of
common
life,
in
health
of
body and
in easy
circumstances,
we
are too often
thoughtless
of
the
hand
of
God,
w
hick showers
down
these favours
of
heaven upon
us
in
a
long and
constant
succession
;
but
when he sees fit to touch
us
with his
finger,
and awaken
some
lurking
malady within
us,
our
ease
vanishes,
our
days
are
restless
and
painful, and
tire-.
some nights
of
darkness
pass over
us
without
sleep
or
repose.
Then
we
repent that
we
have
so
long forgotten
the
God of
our
mercies
:
and
we
learn
to
lift up
our
praises to the
Lord,
that
every
night
of our
lives
has
not
been
ressless,
that
every day and
hour
has
not
been
a
season
of
racking
pain. Blessed
be the
Lord that
enables
us,
without
anguish or
uneasiness, to
fulfil
the
common business
of
the day
;
and blessed
be his
hand
that
draws the peaceful curtains
of
the
night
round about
us
!
And even
in
the midst
of
moderate
pains,
we
bless
his
name who
gives
us
refre4hing
slumbers;
and
we
grow
more careful
to employ and improve every
moment
of
returning
ease, as
the
most
proper
way
of
expressing
out
thankfulness to
our
almighty
Healer.
Alas,
what
poor, sorry, sinful
creatures
are
we in
the
present
state,
who
want
to be
taught
the value
of
our
mercies
by
the removal
of
them.!
The
man
of
a
robust
and
vigorous make,
and a healthy constitution,
knows
not
the
true
worth
of
health and
ease,
nor
sets
a
due
va-
lue
upon
these
blessings
of heaven;
but
we
are
taught
to