Two things should comfort suffering Christians, namely: all that they presently suffer is not Hell; their present suffering is all the Hell that they shall suffer.
Afflictions are not so much threatened as promised, to the children of God.
By affliction God separates the sin which He hates, from the soul which He loves.
Sin is the poison and affliction is the medicine.
If the servants of Christ are ever so afflicted, yet His heart is with them, and His eye is upon them.
Though the hand of God may be against you; yet the heart of God may be towards you.
What is bearing a temporal cross, compared to the wearing an eternal crown?
Our enjoyments are greater than our afflictions, and our afflictions less than our sins.
Our sufferings should stir up our graces, as well as our griefs.
[John Mason]
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