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Life to be compared with the State of Widowhood, as a School
to feel the Depth of Grief and pour out Complaints to the Lord,
who is also compassionate, and will not suffer Us to be tempted
above what We are able to bear, but with the Temptation gives
the Deliverance.
be the Husband of the Widow, and a Father to the Fatherless, so
has my dear Saviour approved Himself to Me: a merciful
High Priest and a forgiving Father.
and Weakness both of Soul and Body, gives Me to feel plain enough,
that I can't subsist one Moment without his Grace.
He says, in a Time accepted I have heard Thee, and in the
Day of Salvation have I succoured Thee.
an Inheritance among his Children, and hid Me under the Shadow
of his Wings, where I am secure. And if at any Time I felt
any Burden of Sin, Grief or Pressure of Heart, then has my
dear Saviour heard and forgiven Me; and I have at all Times
found, that when I come to him with all my Poverty and Sin
-fulness, Then He the Bridegroom of Souls has approved him
-self as the Husband of the Widow unto my Heart; And tho'
the Least of all Those who are Widows indeed.
is to become Such as my Souls Bridegroom may take Pleasure
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in; and the Mother who has regenerated Us, may rejoice over
Me, and the Rest of the Children of God, and that We may rejoice
with the Joy in the Holy Ghost. That I may with
the Breasts of Consolation, and be at all Times
the Righteousness of my Redeemer.