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'I shall be one o' these days, for certain sure, was old Reuben's reply; 'but 'tis the Lord that will put me there; 'tis His washing that has done it. 'That's what Miss Fairfax said; she said it wasn't tribulation would bring us to heaven. She made me sing, "There was no other good enough To pay the price of sin; He only could unlock the gate Of heaven and let us in."
Yes, mother of sad eyes and broken spirit! whose long life is a sorrowful vigil, waiting upon the coming of wicked sons, of deceitful daughters weary, weary, and heavy laden with tribulation, here is the Comforter who shall give you rest.
I had hoped that she might have married Jack, or perhaps Grundle, during the interval, not having foreseen that the year, which was intended to be one of honour and glory, should become a time of mourning and tribulation. "Yes, my dear, it is very sad." "Sad! Was there ever a position in life so melancholy, so mournful, so unutterably miserable?"
Tribulation and suffering for a good cause, is even fainting to some; as the Apostle hinteth, Ephes. iii. 13, when he says, wherefore, "I desire that ye faint not at my tribulation for you." And that which evinceth the danger of this dispensation, is the fainting and backsliding of many, in such a time of trial, as sad experience too often cleareth.
Betty knitted her brows in perplexity. 'If you've been through tribulation, you must be very nearly ready for heaven the Bible says so. 'Ay, do it? Let's hear, missy; for sure I've had my lot o' woe, and the Lord do be marciful! For a second time that afternoon Betty repeated the text that was so occupying her mind and thoughts. The old man listened attentively.
The affair, though singularly desperate, was but the work of a minute; and when I reached the deck, the "Two Marys" was in the wind, Captain Luke was consoling his wife, the pig was running about the deck in great tribulation, and my companion in pursuit of fame lay weltering in his gore.
"We bees do not provide honey for ourselves," exclaimed VAN HELMONT, when worn out by the toils of chemistry, and still contemplating, amidst tribulation and persecution, and approaching death, his "Tree of Life," which he imagined he had discovered in the cedar.
'And that's what the Lord says, the old man went on; 'did He say the children were to have tribbylation afore they comed to Him? Why, for sure not! And if you, little missy, go straight into His arms when you gets to heaven, you'll be safe enough, and He'll know where to put you. Betty's little face beamed all over. 'And He will love me, even if I haven't been through tribulation?
Our Saviour saith himself, also, that if we say well by them or yield them thanks who do us good, we do no great thing, and therefore can we with reason look for no great thanks in return. Whosoever thinketh on these things, and remembereth them well, shall in his tribulation neither murmur nor grudge.
The possessed persons were Anthony Tyrell, another Jesuit who rounded upon his friends in the time of their tribulation; Marwood, Antony Babington's private servant, who subsequently found it convenient to leave the country, and was never examined upon the subject; Trayford and Mainy, two young gentlemen, and Sara and Friswood Williams, and Anne Smith, maid-servants.
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