Here the subject takes a new turn. From appealing to men, the petitioner turns now unto the Lord; and he puts it down as an unquestionable truth, that, let men persecute how they may, or let the sorrows of God's afflicted ones be what they will, yet that man cannot fail to be blessed whom the Lord chasteneth. As many as I love, saith Christ, I rebuke and chasten. Revelation 3:19; Hebrews 12:5. Reader! do not fail to recollect this, in all thine afflicting exercises.

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