Inordinate and immoderate sorrow for any affliction doth many times provoke God to lay on greater and heavier afflictions upon a people; it is the way to provoke the Lord to double his strokes upon you, to make your burdens heavier and your bondage greater. God deals with us, as a Father with his child; if the father sees that the child bears his corrections kindly he will give him the less; but if he be stubborn and frets and takes on, it will not make the father lessen his strokes, but to give him more and more; so if we do patiently bear the indignation of the Lord in these afflictions he lays upon us, it is the way to have them alleiviated; but if we murmur and repine against God, are immoderate in our sorrows, this is the way to have them increased. [Christopher Love]
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