more terrible things, and if we ourselves have ever suffered heavier calamities. So doth Paul
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also exhort us; as when he saith, “Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin”
(Heb. xii. 4.): and again, “There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear.”
(1 Cor. x. 13.) Be then our sufferings what they may, let us look round on what is worse;
(for we shall find such,) and thus shall we be thankful. And above all, let us give thanks for
all things continually; for so, both these things will be eased, and we shall live to the glory
of God, and obtain the promised good things, whereunto may all we attain, through the
grace and love toward man, &c.
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Colossians 3:5-7