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Christians that your tender Lord
puts you to pain & that your pains
are so Sharp & so many Your heavenly
Father knoweth that ye have
need of all these things it is a
mercy that he will chastise you
may put your corrections among
your mercies. His breaking of
you are his blessings his woundings
are your cures & by your
own as by that of your Lords stripes
you are healed. And when you
shall review & read over all his
darker Providences & behold the
wisdom & tenderness which is
attempered with his severities
evidenced in his laying on so
much & yet no more than was
needful you will then write down
with the Psalmist Thou in very
faithfulness hast afflicted me