Suffering and Affliction

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Mr. John Bunyan’s Words and sayings
Published in Offor’s 1861 edition of Bunyan’s Works.

SUFFERING

It is not all suffering that makes a martyr, but suffering for the Word of God after a right manner; that is, not only for righteousness, but for righteousness’ sake; not only for truth, but out of love for truth; not only for God’s Word, but according to it; that is, in that holy, humble, meek manner, as the Word of God requires.
It is a rare thing to suffer in a proper manner and to have one’s spirit in suffering opposed only to God’s enemy, sin: sin in doctrine, sin in worship, sin in life, and sin in conversation.
Neither the devil nor men of the world can kill your righteousness or your love for it, except by your own hand. You and your righteousness cannot be separated unless you do it yourself. He who truly suffers for righteousness’ sake and his love of righteousness will not be tempted to exchange it for the goodwill of the entire world.

AFFLICTION

Nothing can render affliction so unbearable as the load of sin. If you want to be ready to meet afflictions, be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside; then whatever afflictions you may meet with will be very easy to you.
The Lord uses His whip of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
The school of the cross is the school of light; it discovers the world’s vanity, baseness, and wickedness and lets us see more of God’s mind. Out of dark affliction comes a spiritual light.
In times of affliction, we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.
If we would heartily renounce the pleasures of this world, we would be troubled very little by our afflictions. What makes affliction so unbearable to many is that they are too much addicted to the pleasures of this life, and so they cannot endure anything that separates them from those pleasures.
John Bunyan was born in November 1628, in Elstow, England. A celebrated English minister and preacher, he wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678), the book that was the most characteristic expression of the Puritan religious outlook. His other works include doctrinal and controversial writings; a spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding (1666); and the allegory, The Holy War (1682).

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