...your's affectionately, JOHN WESLBT. • LETTER V. -; i' DEAR Miss LOXDALE, l>,-is>nl. March. 9, 1782. GOLD is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. creasing therein faster than ever you did since you were justified. It is true, that the usual method...

...bearing the burthen of thy sorrows, abiding in humility and in. G. contentment." 5. Gold and silver are tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. and trust in 6. Trust in God, and he shall recover thee : direct thy way in faith, and have hope in God....

...burthen of thy sorrows, abiding in humility and • wisd. iii. s. contentment." 5. Gold and silver are tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. ana trust in Q. Trust in God, and he shall recover thee : direct thy way in faith, and have hope in...

...unstable man, that has no faith in God, is tossed and borne away upon the wave of every temptation. " Gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity." We frequently know not the strength that is hidden in us, till temptation calls it forth, and shows...

...silver is refined ! " Verily there is a vein for silver, and a place for gold where they fine it." "Gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of affliction." The Lord's fire is ever in Sion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. " The light of Israel shall...

...he hath made willing to bear the refining operation of his holy hand, seem strange to any of us ? " Gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of affliction." If it thus became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing...

...saith Job, ' he hath tried me , I shall come forth as gold ;' and, ' Gold,' saith the wise man, ''a tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity." It is the method whereby God reclaimeth sturdy sinners to • Hence rapaa^i (trial) is the usual word...

...purge away the dross, and to refine them for the Master's use. " Gold," sailh the sou of Sirach, " is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity," Eccles. ii. 5. In the mean time, God's displeasure against the wicked is ever the same, and their prosperity,...

...take cheerfully; and be patient when thou art changed to a low estate : for gold is tried and purified in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity." And therefore, says St. James, " Blessed is the man that endureth temptation ; for, when he ia tried, [if...

...uncomplaining contentment. He "who searcheth the hearts" alone knows; but let all such remember that " gold is tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity : " let them remember that the rank soil of prosperity is unfitted to develope the shoots of those...