...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...the more sensitively alive to hardship or injustice, to slight or contumely. How many such " braised reeds " there be, among the plants of the Lord's own...humiliation. How many of the great and eminent of the earth have commenced their career in that valley, and have emerged from obscurity (like a noble...

...the persuasion, that, whatever befalls the English Church, will be for its greater good. If " gold be tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity," it is natural to suppose a like discipline necessary, for the perfection of collective bodies, and...

...saving baptism, which is compared to fire, whose nature is to consume and purify. Thus the righteous are tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity. God knows his own children, and they know him, and are not deceived: — but he is hid to them who...

...offence to France. ' Send them off,' said he, ' and then proclaim them as deserters.' If ' gold be tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity', a valuable institution, intended to be made still more valuable, is likely to be brought under an analogous...

...by the persuasion, that whatever befals the English Church will be for its greater good. K ' gold be tried in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity,' it is natural to suppose alike discipline necessary for the perfection of collective bodies and corporate...