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Blog Entry: 36. Merenatural fortitude will often enable a man to sustain a heavy Coach Outlet Store Online load of outward calamity : much more will a good conscience, and the consolations of the Divine Spirit, support a true believer under very severe trials and afflictions; though they may Coach Factory Store be complicated and of long continuance : but if the Coach Factory Outlet Store spirititself be wounded, or overwhelmed with gloom, who can bear itup ? Suppose I should endeavor, First,Todescribe the cause of a wounded spirit. Worldly troubles may sometimes Coach Factory Outlet seize on the mind, and depress the spirits to an extreme degree. Inordinate affections and disappointed pride, especially, bring on intolerable dejection. So Amnon pined Tiffany Outlet away under the influence of Chloe Bags Outlet his sinful passion. Ahab fretted himself sick for Naboth's vineyard. Ahitophel, when he saw that his counsel was not followed by Absalom, rode home and hanged himself. And many others have died of what is called a broken heart. These things take place, as we shall show presently, for want of the restraints and supports of true religion. Yes, but religion itself is often charged with having the strongest tendency to dejection and melancholy. The alarming doctrines of those that are called evangelical preachers, are often represented as likely to drive persons to distraction. How can this charge be refuted ? Before I Tiffany Sale reply directly, I must premise one thing. There is a bodily disorder from which good men are not exempt, Tiffany and Co Sale which tends to mental distress. And it is no more a fair Coach Online Outlet objection, that religion should not Coach Outlet Online secure any one who possesses it from thisaffliction, than it would be to allege that it does not prevent the gout, or a consumption. It would be a sad thing, if the Almighty made it a rule never to convert any person, who had a constitutional tendency to derangement, or any disorder of the brain. And if such Chloe Outlet persons are Chloe Outlet Store converted, it is to be expected, that their minds, in a season of distraction, will run upon the same subjects which previously occupied their attention; and that they will view them in a distorted manner, just as others, in a similar state, view the subjects Tiffany and Co Outlet with which they had been conversant. Cowper, Chloe Outlet Online the Coach Factory Outlet Online poet, was deranged long before he knew any thing of evangelical religion. He owed several years of comfort to the gospel. And the false idea which caused his distress in latter years, was in direct opposition to Calvinistic principles. ' But do you not represent all men as children of disobedience, and exposed to eternal punishment; as unable to deliver themselves, and as lying entirely at God's mercy ?' We do so. And we believe it to be a fact.
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