very easy to you.

If thou canst hear and bear the rod of affliction which God shall lay
upon thee, remember this lesson, thou art BEATEN that thou mayst be
better.

The Lord useth his FLAIL of tribulation to separate the chaff from the
wheat.

The school of the cross is the school of light; it discovers the
world's vanity, baseness, and wickedness, and lets us see more of God's
mind. Out of dark affliction comes a spiritual light.

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences
of the love of God.

Did we heartily renounce the pleasures of this world, we should be very
little troubled for our afflictions; that which renders an afflicted
state so insupportable to many, is because they are too much addicted
to the pleasures of this life; and so cannot endure that which makes a
separation between them.

OF REPENTANCE AND COMING TO CHRIST.

The end of affliction is the discovery of sin; and of THAT to bring us
to the Saviour; let us therefore, with the prodigal, return unto him,
and we shall find ease and rest.

A returning penitent, though formerly bad as the worst of men, may by
grace become as good as the best.