Affliction

“It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.”

Ps. 119:71

“That which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die”

1 Cor. 15:36

“…and he was there in the prison.  But the Lord was with Joseph…”

Gen. 39:20-21

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Subsection

Bereavement

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Order of Contents

Articles  3
Books  2
Quotes  2

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Articles

1800’s

Alexander, Archibald – “Weep with them that Weep”,  a Discourse Occasioned by the Burning of the Theatre in the City of Richmond, Virginia on Dec. 26th, 1811  (1812)  21 pp.

Buchanan, James

The Bible & Consolation  no source info, three paragraphs

The Work of the Spirit as the Comforter, p. 505, 14 pp.  from his The Office & Work of the Holy Spirit

Girardeau, John – The Suffering Seaboard of South Carolina  (1876)  29 pp.

A chronicle of the sufferings of Charleston, SC, “our Southern Zion”, after its occupation by the Northern army during the War between the States.  Peer here into the sufferings of a part of Christ’s church, and the labors of her faithful pastors.

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Books

1700’s

Boston, Thomas – The Crook in the Lot  180 pp.

“Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight, which He hath made crooked?” – Eccl. 7:13

Willison, John – The Afflicted Man’s Companion  †1750  350 pp.

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Quotes

John Flavel

Keeping the Heart

“Though God hath reserved to Himself a liberty of afflicting his people, yet He hath tied up his own hands by promise never to take away his loving-kindness from them.”

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John ‘Rabbi’ Duncan

“If we have not got a cross, alas! we may conclude that we have not got Christ, for it is the first of his gifts.”

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“But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good”

Gen. 50:20

“I shall be his father, and he will be my son; if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: Nevertheless, my mercy shall not depart away from him.”

2 Samuel 7:14

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Related Pages

Depression