Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your affliction…

John Owen
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Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror. ✨ John Owen (1851). The Works ..., p.583
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Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror. ✨ John Owen (1851). The Works ..., p.583

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