The Character of a Sound Christian: Mark Six

The Character of a Sound Christian in 17 Marks by Thomas Hooker .

Mark Six: If you can be patient under afflictions and better for afflictions.

Hebrews 12:5 And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him

Psalm 119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word.

Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

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