7. So went Satan... and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.

9. Then said his wife unto him, Dost thou still retain thine integrity?...

10. But he said unto her,... What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.

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Job v. 6. Affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground.

17. Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore depise not thou the chastening of the Almighty.

Job xxiii. 10.... When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Ps. vii. 9. ...The righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.

Ps. xi. 5. The Lord trieth the righteous.

Ps. xvii. 8. Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shall find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

Ps. xxvi. 2. Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.

P8. xlvi. 10. For thou, O God, hast proved us: thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.

Ps. cxvi. 10. I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted.

Ps. cxix. 67. Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.

Pro. iii. 11. My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; neither be weary of his correction:

12. For whom the Lord loveth, he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Pro. xvii. 8. The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord trieth the hearts.

Ecc. vii. 8. Sorrow is better than laughter for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

Isa. xlviii. 10. Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

Isa. liv. 7. For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

8. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer.

Isa. lx. 10. ...In my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

Jer. xx. 12....O Lord of hosts, that triest the righteous, and seest the reins and the heart... unto thee have I opened my cause.

La. iii. 27. It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

Eze. xx. 37. And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you unto the bond of the covenant.

Mi. vi. 9. The Lord's voice crieth unto the city,... hear ye the rod, and who hath appointed it.

Zec. xiii. 9. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them.

Mal. iii. 8. And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.

THE SIN OF MURMURING. THE VIRTUE OF SUBMISSION.

Gen. xvi. 9. And the angel of the Lord said unto her, (Hagar) Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

Ex. xiv. 11. And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt ?

12. Is not this the word that we did tell thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians? For it had been better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness.

Ex. xv. 23. And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter...

24. And the people murmured against Moses, saying, what shall we drink?

Ex. xvi. 2. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

8. And the children of Israel said unto them,

Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt: ... for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.

4. Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

7. And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord;...

8. And Moses said, This shall be, when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.

9. ...Come near before the Lord: for he hath heard your murmurings.

10. ...They looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud. 11. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

12. I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel...

Ex. xvii. 2. Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the Lord?

3. And the people thirsted there for water; and the