圣约中的安慰Comfort in the Covenant
虽然神为自己保留自由，必要时可以使祂的百姓受苦；但祂也用应许约束了自己的手，绝不从他们收回祂的慈爱。
我的心哪，我骄傲的心哪！神已经把整棵树赐给你，连同树上所结的一串串安慰果子；祂不过许可风吹落几片叶子，你为什么就不满呢？诚然，若祂剪断祂的爱，或废去与我灵魂所立的约，我就有理由灰心丧胆；但祂没有这样做，也不能这样做。
“又要与他们立永远的约，必随着他们施恩，并不离开他们，且使他们有敬畏我的心，不离开我。”（耶32:40）
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Though God has reserved to Himself a liberty of afflicting His people when He sees the necessity of it-yet He has tied His own hands by promise, never to take away His loving-kindness from them.
O my heart, my haughty heart! Why should you be discontented, when God has given you the whole tree, with all the clusters of comfort growing on it-because He allows the wind to blow down a few leaves? Indeed, if He had cut off His love, or discovenanted my soul-I would have had reason to be cast down. But this He has not done-nor can He do it.
"I will make an everlasting covenant with them! I will never stop doing good to them, and I will inspire them to fear Me, so that they will never turn away from Me!" Jeremiah 32:40