Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Wou…

John Bunyan
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Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you. ✨ John Bunyan (1873). The Complete Works, p.79
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Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you. ✨ John Bunyan (1873). The Complete Works, p.79

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