Keep Quietly to God and Think Upon the Eternal Years
December 5.
The God of all grace,
who hath called us unto His eternal glory
by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while,
make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
1 PETER 5, verse 10.
Take heed, and be quiet; fear not,
neither be faint-hearted.
ISAIAH 7, verse 4.
How shall thou bear the cross that now
So dread a weight appears?
Keep quietly to God, and think
Upon the Eternal Years.
F. W. FABER.
God forgive them that raise an ill report
upon the sweet cross of Christ; it is but our
weak and dim eyes, that look but to the black
side, that makes us mistake; those that can
take that crabbed tree handsomely upon
their backs, and fasten it on cannily,
shall find it such a burden as wings
unto a bird, or sails to a ship.
S. RUTHERFORD.
Blessed is any weight, however overwhelming,
which God has been so good ast o fasten with
His own hand upon our shoulders.
F. W. FABER.
We cannot say this or that trouble shall not
befall, yet we may, by help of the Spirit, say,
nothing that doth befall shall make me do
that which is unworthy of a Christian.
R. SIBBES.
The God of all grace,
who hath called us unto His eternal glory
by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while,
make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
1 PETER 5, verse 10.
Take heed, and be quiet; fear not,
neither be faint-hearted.
ISAIAH 7, verse 4.
How shall thou bear the cross that now
So dread a weight appears?
Keep quietly to God, and think
Upon the Eternal Years.
F. W. FABER.
God forgive them that raise an ill report
upon the sweet cross of Christ; it is but our
weak and dim eyes, that look but to the black
side, that makes us mistake; those that can
take that crabbed tree handsomely upon
their backs, and fasten it on cannily,
shall find it such a burden as wings
unto a bird, or sails to a ship.
S. RUTHERFORD.
Blessed is any weight, however overwhelming,
which God has been so good ast o fasten with
His own hand upon our shoulders.
F. W. FABER.
We cannot say this or that trouble shall not
befall, yet we may, by help of the Spirit, say,
nothing that doth befall shall make me do
that which is unworthy of a Christian.
R. SIBBES.
