TRIALS, AFFLICTIONS, & CHASTISEMENTS
Short Puritan quotes
An easy hell
When they are twisted out of my hand
You have been long
a-gathering rust
Afflicted, tormented,
and destroyed!
We also rejoice in
our afflictions!
Perhaps He will smite
you!
When He does not
punish!
God's file and flail
God shoots many kinds of
arrows
If you attempt to
enthrone the creature!
Correcting in
love--not smiting in wrath!
All honey would harm us
Sharp arrows!
A cross of their own
choosing
The trials and sufferings
of the godly
O the blessed chemistry
of heaven!
All the hell that you shall
ever have
Every man has a heaven and
a hell
Fetch out the dirt and spots
Medicines
That hand can never smite
you
A remedy against all our
trouble
God's pruning knife
Then the scum appears!
A divine chemistry
Evidences &
results of sanctified affliction
The last pang, and groan,
and tear!
You have afflicted me
No sweat!
He who holds the
pruning-knife
Trials, Troubles & Afflictions!
The end will make amends for all!
Sickness, disease, decay, and death
Corrosives to eat out
the proud flesh
God's flail
The daughter helps to
destroy the mother
One second of glory!
In the profound depth
of affliction
Sharp chiseling!
You have no reason to
complain
Hammer, anvil, file &
fire!
But a flea-bite!
How is affliction a
blessing?
Fuel to your lusts, and
quenchers of your graces
He was still a-pointing at
the toads in their bosoms
A cup of love!
I had to punish him
Every twig has a voice!
You are the one who has done
this!
Every bitter cup
God would not rub so hard
A rod of love to whip you!
Paulinus Nolanus
Go and kill such a man
They poured out a prayer
The afflictions of
the godly
The cup!
It is in these storms
Are you a distressed
believer?
A double hell
O blessed hurricane!
Glued to the world
The constant cry of the rod
Afflictions
Our momentary light
affliction
When Munster lay sick
Pity your foolish child!
But our coward flesh shrinks from them!
Father knows best!
Has He put you so many
times into the furnace?
If God gave us no thorn
You are the one who has done
this!
A great and inestimable mercy
Sweet comfort
I am a very dull scholar in Christ's school
The little garden?
Every new trial, and every
fresh cross!
Their dregs and dross
The divine Craftsman
Afflictions
A tiny insect at the door of My all-sufficiency
This trouble from which you are
now suffering
A languishing body
The soil where graces thrive
best
His unwearied care and concern
Through the agonies of
great trial
Cruel tools
Here is a strange sight!
Not made of feathers, nor lined with velvet
His everlasting arms!
All trials, all
temptations, all strippings, all emptyings
To wean you from a poor,
unsatisfying world
Why are you cast down, O
my soul?
These difficulties . . .
Poor, moping, dejected creatures
When our path is strewed with roses
When God thwarts,
afflicts, and mortifies us
AFFLICTIONS
God is at the root of our sufferings
It is in these storms
The storms of life
The searching, burning, purifying fires of
Christ's furnace!
God's chisel
One of God's medicines!
To keep me from getting puffed up
Weary?
The believer's chief troubles
Only one hand can ease the trouble
The Lord sometimes flogs His children home!
Severe, yet wise and loving
He can crawl like a serpent, and he can roar like a
lion!
Your burden
The pruning knife?
He has given me a cup of deep sorrow to drink
Softening?
Proceed with your chiselings
Hammer, anvil, file & fire!
There are many devices in a man's heart
Sanctified affliction
Trials are intended . . .
Living in a world full of disease and death
It is the hand of Him who was crucified!
Afflictions, sorrows, trials
The black chariot of Christ!
Welcome all sickness!
Some heavy, painful, yet concealed cross?
God's knife!
This is a plank which upholds the sinking heart!
THE CHOOSING PLACE
Some of you will be cast into the furnace!
Drinking bitter cups
All God's dealings with
us
One drop of that potion
This precious panacea!
What a pillow on which to rest your aching head!
The chastening of love!
The Shepherd knows what pastures are best
Happy sickness
Surrounded with trouble at almost every step?
The buzzing of a fly
Precious fruits of sanctified
affliction
Our little trials, little
cares, little needs, little sorrows
Some of you will be cast
into the furnace!
SIFTING!
The hard couch of sorrow
Trials and discomforts?
Christ's schools?
God's lancet!
The medicine! The knife! Your song!
The wounded and wounding hand of the Savior!
It is their Father's hand
which chastens them!
An irrevocable loss!
Dyed in the purple stream of His own heart's blood!
What!
Level clay idols?
But, alas! We are poor creatures
What Omnipotence cannot do?
Here, put your troubles here!
Entwined with crosses?
Are you, beloved, walking in the midst of trouble?
Blessed suffering!
Oh! be submissive, meek, and quiet!
God's arrows!
Patience! Patience!
Patience!
Just because He disposes
all things
CALAMITIES--Chance, Fate, Satan or
Predestination?
A cup of love?
Passing through the valley of weeping
Black envelopes?
Hear the voice of love in the rod
The school of trial
A measure of trials is
necessary
The bitter pill of adversity
THE REASON FOR CHASTISEMENT
Every tear that falls upon the pallid face of sorrow
"This is my infirmity."
A gospel honeycomb
The afflictions the Lord sends on His
people
Every bitter cup
Treasures!
We are both in the
furnace!
Trials are necessary to wean us from the world
A balm for every wound, a
cordial for every care
The hard things
Unfailing love!
What is your sorrow?
The furnace!
Cancer, go to that child!
Infinite
wisdom has appointed the whole!
The purpose of all our
sorrow and trouble
Disaster!
Afflictions
A black messenger loaded with treasure!
The season of sickness!
God's perfect will
Comfort for SICK SAINTS
This unravels the mystery!
THE GREATEST TEMPORAL BLESSING?
Sickness!
The school of Christ
The school of
adversity
Afflictions!
Gods appointments
The sweetest mercies of
God!
All things!
Sweetly refreshed
Swine-troughs and husks!
Troubles! Trials! Afflictions!
We take much to uproot us
Show me why You contend with me
The sharp arrows of affliction!
Have we not leaned upon a thousand things?
One fiery trial?
Too wise to err and too good to be unkind!
Losses, adversities, afflictions, griefs!
Sweet affliction! Sweet affliction!
Unfreeze the frozen graces
Comfort in all your trouble
The more the diamond is cut
All life's tangles
A strange college!
My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me!
The black horse of affliction
Your portion
All the whys and wherefores
Our trials...
An amazing reverse of
circumstances!
Having hard times?
Pure Gold!
My Father did this!
Bitter cups...
Kiss the rod
GOD BREAKS OUR IDOLS
Our worst things
True grace...
The afflictions of the ungodly
All the houses in this plague stricken land
A chastening God!
All kinds of trials...
ARE YOU TROUBLED?
Losses?
I asked the Lord...
GOD AFFLICTS THE GODLY
When your Father smites you!
HIS WILL
Praying about trials!
God's choicest mercies...
A Compassionate High Priest and a Throne of
Grace
Wait a little longer.
Sweet comfort...
Afflictions
Our present sufferings...
Trials, chastenings, afflictions...
Our trials?
In the furnace!
My Father's hand...
Because He loves you...
Troubles, troubles, troubles...
Troubles
God's blows?
Sharp arrows!
Afflictions are the mother of virtue...
The end of God in all His doings and dealings
Trials & providence...
Fiery trials!
The highest honor?
Wilt Thou pursue Thy worm to death?
Where God put you?
COMPASSED WITH INFIRMITY
Your Cross
God's rods!
God's Chastening!
OUR MISERIES, MESSENGERS OF MERCY
No trivial gifts?
Mourning into dancing!
His everlasting shoulders...
Mountains of troubles!
The axhead!
Help Lord!
Christ in the Sick Room
Afflictions