September 26 – “Except then we be fully persuaded, that God by his secret providence regulates all these confusions, Satan will a hundred times a day, yea every moment, shake that confidence which ought to repose in God.”

“This is a truth much needed: for Satan darkens, as with clouds, the favor of God, when any adversity happens to us, and when God himself thus proves our faith. But adversities are as it were clouds, excluding us from seeing God’s fervor, as the light of the sun appears not to us when the [...]

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September 23 – “Thus we see that the worst of men are in God’s hand, as Satan is, who is their head…”

“By saying that the Chaldeans would be terrible and dreadful, he praises not their virtues; but, as I have already reminded you, he shows that they would be prepared to do his service by executing his vengeance: and he so regulated his judgement, that he used their cruelty for a good purpose. Thus we see [...]

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September 13 – “Good men seek peace for grace sake; but wicked men and hypocrites, seek grace for peace sake.”

“O Lord, I am one of those wearied souls ; wearied with my temptations, wearied with inward trouble ; now, Lord, speak a word in due season to this poor, wounded, and wearied soul. Thus go to Christ. Only in your addresses to Christ, be sure that ye go in uprightness. Take heed that you [...]

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“We must not think it strange if wickedness be suffered to prevail long and prosper long.”

“When God seems to connive at the wickedness of the wicked, nay, and to countenance it, by suffering them to prosper in their wickedness, it shocks the faith of good men, and proves a sore temptation for them to say, We have cleansed our hearts in vain (Ps 73:13), and hardens those in their impiety [...]

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