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Affliction cometh not forth of the dust.
Job 5:6.
’Tis my happiness below,
Not to live without the cross,
But the Saviour’s power to know,
Sanctifying every loss.
2 Trials must and will befall;
But with humble faith to see
Love inscribed upon them all—
This is happiness to me.
3 Did I meet no trials here,
No chastisement by the way;
Might I not, with reason, fear
I should prove a castaway?
4 Trials make the promise sweet;
Trials give new life to prayer;
Trials bring me to his feet—
Lay me low, and keep me there.
Cowper.