to revive in you a sense of the uncertainty and vanity of all things here below, to give you a nearer and closer perception of the importance and reality of unseen things; to afford you the honour of a conformity to Jesus, who went through sufferings to the kingdom. But how different were his sufferings from your’s? There is no sting in your rod, nor wrath in your cup; your pains and infirmities do not cause you to sweat blood, nor are you left to cry out, “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
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