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<p>&quot;And He led them forth by <strong>the right way</strong>, <br />
  that they might go to a city of habitation.&quot;<br />
  Psalm 107:7<br />
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  Those very times when God's people think <br />
  they are faring ill, may be the seasons when <br />
  they are really faring well. For instance, when <br />
  their souls are bowed down with trouble, it <br />
  often seems to them that they are faring ill. <br />
  God's hand appears to be gone out against <br />
  them. Yet perhaps they never fare better than<br />
  when under these circumstances of <strong>trouble,<br />
    sorrow, and affliction</strong>.<br />
  These things wean them from the world. <br />
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  If their heart and affections were going out <br />
  after idols—they instrumentally bring them back. <br />
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  If they were hewing out broken cisterns <br />
  —they dash them all to pieces. <br />
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  If they were setting up, and bowing down to <br />
  idols in the chambers of imagery, affliction <br />
  and trouble smite them to pieces before their<br />
  eyes—take away their gods—and leave them <br />
  no refuge but the Lord God of hosts. <br />
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  So that when a child of God thinks he is faring very <br />
  ill, because burdened with sorrows, temptations, <br />
  and afflictions—he is never faring so well. The darkest <br />
  clouds in due time will break, the most puzzling <br />
  enigmas will sooner or later be unriddled by the <br />
  blessed Spirit interpreting them—and the darkest <br />
  providences cleared up—and we shall see that God <br />
  is in them all—leading and guiding us by<strong> the right <br />
    way</strong>, that we may go to a city of habitation.
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