14. That we must never murmur, but bless
God concerning all things that happen.
In Job: “Say some word against the
Lord, and die. But he, looking upon her, said, Thou speakest as
one of the foolish women. If we have received good things from
the Lord’s hand, why shall we not endure evil things? In
all these things which happened unto him, Job sinned not with his lips
in the sight of the Lord.”
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Also in the same place:
“Hast thou regarded my servant Job? for there is none like unto
him in the earth: a man without complaint: a true
worshipper of God, restraining himself from all evil.”
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Of the
same thing in the thirty-third Psalm: “I will bless the
Lord at all times: His praise shall ever be in my
mouth.”
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Of
this same thing in Numbers: “Let their murmuring cease from
me, and they shall not die.”
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Of this same thing in the Acts
of the Apostles: “But about the middle of the night Paul
and Silas prayed and gave thanks to God, and the prisoners heard
them.”
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Also
in the Epistle of Paul to the Philippians: “But doing all
things for love, without murmurings and revilings,
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that ye may be without complaint, and
spotless sons of God.”
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Job ii. 9, 10
.
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Job i. 8
.
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Ps. xxxiv. 1
.
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Num. xvii. 10
.
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Acts xvi. 25
.
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Reputationibus; possibly “complainings.”
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Phil. ii. 14, 15
.