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Excerpt from The Mourner's Companion: With an Introductory Essay
But, though the truth of these remarks will be readily assented to by all who professedly believe the gospel, yet there is reason to suspect that it is often practically denied, and that even with many who do most cordially acquiesce in the general proposition, there is a tendency virtually to question it in partien lar cases, when they are themselves individually con cerned. We do not, indeed, suppose that Christians can avowedly arraign the wisdom or the beneficence of God, on the ground of any af?iction which theymay Witness in others, or experience in themselves or that they can ever ask why he has permitted his creatures to be subject to suffering at all, as if by that suffering injustice had been done them. Such a question is just a particular form of the idle and presumptuous inquiry, why sin has been permitted; it indicates, on the part of those who urge it, a lamentable blindness to all that is most affecting in the character of God - even those attributes of his nature, which the existence of moral evil has been the means of unfolding to the view of his intelligent creatures, and which, as far as we can conceive of them, never could have been exhibited in any other way; and it cannot, therefore, be deliberately pro posed by any man who professedly believes the gos pel. But there is reason to fear, that, even with many such, the subject of af?iction is frequently a perplexing one; that, in seasons of suffering, thoughts do sometimes arise that are nearly allied to the ques tion of which we have been speaking; and that, if they do not complain that they are afflicted at all, they are ready to ask why their af?ictions are so com plicated, or so severe; and it is in opposition to these unworthy thoughts of the divine government, that we would suggest some considerations, calculated to show the beneficent design, and the salutarytendency, of such af?ictions.
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