We must believe steadfastly, never once doubting, that such discipline is for our good, that it is God’s will to visit us with chastening, that it is the course of His Divine Providence to permit our souls to pass through all manner of sore experiences and times of trial, and for the love of God to undergo divers sorrows and afflictions for so long as shall seem needful to Him; since, without this submission of heart and spirit to the will of God, devotion and perfection cannot subsist.
