Afflictions: Tempered With Mercy

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Psalm 78:38,39
But he, being full of compassion, forgave their iniquity, and destroyed them not: yes, many a time turned he his anger away, and did not stir up all his wrath.
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Psalm 106:43-46
Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.
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Isaiah 30:18-21
And therefore will the LORD wait, that he may be gracious to you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy on you: for the LORD is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.
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Lamentations 3:32
But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
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Micah 7:7-9
Therefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
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Nahum 1:12
Thus said the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many, yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through. Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no more.
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The Wisdom of God
... Every providence has a mercy or a wonder wrapt ... As several poisonable ingredients,
wisely tempered by the skill ... God makes the most deadly afflictions co-operate ...
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"And There is None that Calleth Upon Thy Name, that Stirreth up ...
... so much experience of the unprofitableness of former afflictions, that we ... because
his anger is still tempered and mixed with clemency and mercy; and that ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon xviii and there is.htm

Homilies on the Epistles to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon.
... his sinfulness to extol God's mercy, [3642]420 ... Persecutions, afflictions, sorrows,
called, [3676]506; the godly ... for, [3766]450; to be tempered with exhortation ...
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Fifth Sunday after Trinity Exhortation to the Fruits of Faith.
... and you must expect the same afflictions from the ... he has been discussing: gentleness,
mercy, friendliness"citing ... If the Christian be quick-tempered and fail ...
/.../luther/epistle sermons vol iii/fifth sunday after trinity exhortation.htm

The Worst Things Work for Good to the Godly
... of contrary qualities, yet God has so tempered them, that ... Afflictions are as needful
as ordinances (I Peter i.6 ... "All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth ...
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Suffering with Christ, a Condition of Glory with Christ
... evil world"there Christ is with us in our afflictions. ... you are fit for heaven"yet
in His mercy He is ... is to be passed before it becomes tempered steel, a ...
/.../suffering with christ a condition.htm

Of Meditating on the Future Life.
... Afflictions employed as the cure.2. To lead us to aspire to ... 4. Weariness of the present
life how to be tempered. ... life is a gift of the divine mercy, of which ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/chapter 9 of meditating on.htm

Joy
... it cries out, as Asaph, Is his mercy clean gone ... joys are more pure, they are not
tempered with any ... can bear up a Christian's heart in trials and afflictions. ...
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Christian Sympathy
... In all our afflictions he is afflicted ... Still the Sister of Mercy, with her basket
on her arm ... but he knows that you are crotchety, short-tempered, illiberal, and ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 8 1863/christian sympathy.htm

The Unrivalled Friend
... Our Lord when he came in mercy to us, found ... We are but short-tempered, but our Lord
is longsuffering ... effect of sorrow, but because their afflictions have acted ...
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