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We should keep a register in our minds of all the eminent blessings and deliverances we have met with; some whereof have been so conveyed that we might clearly perceive they were not the issues of chance, but the gracious effects of the divine favor and the signal returns of our prayers.
Henry Scougal
Life of God in the Soul of Man, 112

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Henry Scougal Blessings

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Perfect love is a kind of self-dereliction, a wandering out of ourselves; it is a kind of voluntary death wherein the lover dies to himself and all his own interest, not thinking of them nor caring for them anymore, and minding nothing but how he may please and gratify the party whom he loves.

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Humility imports a deep sense of our own weakness with a hearty and affectionate acknowledgment of our owing all that we are to the divine bounty, which is always accompanied with a profound submission to the will of God and great deadness toward the glory of the world and applause of men.

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Behold on what sure foundations his happiness is built whose soul is possessed with divine love, whose will is transformed into the will of God, and whose greatest desire is that his Maker should be pleased. Oh the peace, the rest, the satisfaction that attends such a temper of mind!

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the gleanings of a Christian are better than the vintage of a reprobate. "A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked."

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Common and ordinary blessings once lost and found again become extraordinary.

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Anger may kindle in the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of a fool.

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Anger

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.