Afflicted Saints: should Trust in the Goodness of God

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Job 13:15
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain my own ways before him.
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Psalm 71:20
You, which have showed me great and sore troubles, shall quicken me again, and shall bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
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2 Corinthians 1:9
But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raises the dead:
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Surely Goodness and Mercy Shall Follow Me all the Days of My Life ...
... But here we must not conclude that the Saints and holy persons have ... long it is the
wish of Providence that we should be burdened and afflicted, we may ...
/.../callan/the shepherd of my soul/xi surely goodness and mercy.htm

Counsel for Outward Behaviour.
... permit ourselves to be harassed and afflicted by them ... was on this account that the
saints sighed continually ... We should be particularly careful as regards those ...
/.../abandonment to divine providence/ii counsel for outward behaviour.htm

Why Men do not Attain Quickly to the Perfect Love of God. Of Four ...
... it at once, as some of the saints have done ... His will that these plants and flowers
should grow"some ... to rejoice nor to be greatly afflicted, whether sweetness ...
/.../teresa/the life of st teresa of jesus/chapter xi why men do.htm

A Mystery! Saints Sorrowing and Jesus Glad!
... own fig-tree, and talk to the poor tried saints, and say ... It is good for me that I
have been afflicted.' " I tell ... God, of what would be his lot if he should die. ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 10 1864/a mystery saints sorrowing and.htm

Twenty Sixth Sunday after Trinity God's Judgment when Christ ...
... you, 7 and to you that are afflicted rest with ... he shall come to be glorified in his
saints, and to ... as a baptized child of God the Christian should justly enjoy ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol iii/twenty sixth sunday after trinity.htm

God.
... ability in him "to comprehend with other saints what is ... which others tremble, for
fear it should poison them ... have more often seen that the afflicted are always ...
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Of Bearing the Cross --One Branch of Self-Denial.
... world shall rejoice," (John 16:20.) And lest any one should regard this ... Scripture
gives saints the praise of endurance when, though afflicted by the ...
/.../sergieff/on the christian life/chapter iii of bearing the.htm

Question Lxxxii of Devotion
... the devotion which we have to the Saints of God ... religious people, and for their sake
they should put aside ... heart: A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit;[94 ...
/.../aquinas/on prayer and the contemplative life/question lxxxii of devotion.htm

Necessity of Contemplating the Judgment-Seat of God, in Order to ...
... Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the ... those who lie afflicted by a
knowledge of their poverty? ... the gifts of Christ, because if he should seek for ...
/.../chapter 12 necessity of contemplating.htm

Of Bearing the Cross --One Branch of Self-Denial.
... And lest any one should regard this as vicious, he expressly declares ... Scripture gives
saints the praise of endurance when, though afflicted by the ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 8 of bearing the.htm

Subtopics

Afflicted

Afflicted Saints: Christ Comforts

Afflicted Saints: Christ Delivers

Afflicted Saints: Christ is With

Afflicted Saints: Christ Preserves

Afflicted Saints: Christ Supports

Afflicted Saints: Examples of Afflicted Saints: Apostles

Afflicted Saints: Examples of Afflicted Saints: David

Afflicted Saints: Examples of Afflicted Saints: Eli

Afflicted Saints: Examples of Afflicted Saints: Job

Afflicted Saints: Examples of Afflicted Saints: Joseph