in The Primitive Baptist vol.5 no.3 (1840)
COUNT IT ALL JOY, MY BRETHREN, when ye fall into
divers temptations, for in every temptation he will make a way
for your escape. The God of heaven has said it, and his word is
good, for tribulation is the school of heaven, and Paul says, rejoice
in it, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and
experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed, because the
love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost
which is given unto us. Thus it is a blessed school, that God
sends his children to, for they learn things that they cannot
learn no where else. |
