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March 24th 1821

My dear christian friend &
humbly beloved in our Lord Jesus Christ
I am very anxious for hearing from you,
that I may know how you are, under this illness
which the Almighty has been pleased to ?
Two things should comfort suffering christians,
ie, all that they suffer is not hell; yet it is
all the hell they shall suffer: Afflications are not
so much threatened, as promised to the children
of God. To be a christian & a suffering christian
is a double honour; by affliction God seperates
the sin which he hates from the soul which
he loves: Sin is the poison afflication ?
If the servants of christ are never so low yet
his heart is with them, & his eye upon thenm:
God takes it unkindly when we grieve him sorely
for any outward thing; because it is a sign
we fetch not that comfort from him which
we should [.] what if the providence of God
? you if the promise of God ? ? what
is bringing a temporal ? so that ?
? ?