Monday, March 20, 2006

Monday Puritan

Again, from George Petter, this time on Mark 5:25-26:

Reasons why God exerciseth his Children and Servants with loving affliction:
1. To manifest his great power, strengthening them to bear such long afflictions.
2. To magnifie his mercy in delivering them at length out of them.
3. That he may make through proof and tryall of their faith, patience, and other graces of his Spirit in them.
4. To wean them from this World, and to stir up in them a longing for heaven.
5. To stir them up to sue unto God by prayer the more earnestly for deliverance.

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