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It is not the soul who has the fewest trials and difficulties that prospers most, but the one who meets them with courage and confident trust. Some are crushed down and made to despair by the very things that stir others to renewed effort and courage. What our trials are to us depends on what we are to them. This is well illustrated in Elijah’s experience.
They must therefore allege some commendable examples of such a kneeling as we dispute about, in a mediate and ordinary worship, else they say nothing to the point. Sect. 18. Yet to no better purpose they tell us, that when God spoke, Abraham fell on his face, and when the fire came down at Elijah’s prayer, the people fell on their faces. What is this to the purpose?
Those that had believed in him grew daily less. In Jerusalem his miracles had ceased, and I thought that, when the levites and the Temple-guard approached, he would speak with Samuel’s thunder, answer with Elijah’s flame. I thought the stars would shake, the moon grow red; that he would produce the lost Urim, the vanished Ark, and so forever silence disbelief. I was wrong, and he was right.
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