The Rare Jewel of

This is the rhetoric of the Spirit of God'he said, 'to extenuate evil things, and to amplify good things: if a cross comes to make the cross but little, but if there is a mercy to make the mercy great.

Christian, how did you enjoy comfort before? Was the creature anything to you but a conduit, a pipe, that conveyed God's goodness to you? 'The pipe is cut off,'says God, 'come to me, the fountain, and drink immediately.'…