Flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting. Forgiven an hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents. For I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantadge against you, except you sin and offend your Lord in your sufferings. But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their heads, and your Lord shall open a door to you in your troubles. Wait upon Him, as the night watch waiteth for the morning. He will not tarry. Go up to your watch-tower and come nod won; but by prayer and faith and hope and wait on. When the sea is full, it will ebb again; and so soon as the wicked are come to the top of their pride, and are waxed high and mighty, then is their change approaching. They that believe make not haste.
Remember Zion, forget her not, for her enemies are many; for the nations are gathered against her. "But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they His counsel; for He shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor. Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion." (Michah iv. 12, 13). Behold, God hath gathered his enemies together, as sheaves to the threshing. Let us stay and rest upon these promises. Now again, I trust in our Lord you shall be faith sustain yourself, and comfort yourself in the Lord, and be strong in His power; for you are in the beaten and common way to heaven when you are under the Lord's crosses. You have reason to rejoice in it, more than in a crown of gold; and rejoice and be glad to be the reproaches of Christ. [Samuel Rutherford]
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