_How we ought to call upon God, and bless him in tribulation._
_Christian._ BLESSED, O Lord, be thy name for ever, who art pleased
that this temptation and tribulation should come upon me.
I cannot fly it; but must needs fly to thee, that thou mayst help me,
and turn it to my good.
Lord, I am now afflicted. I am much troubled with this present
suffering.
And now, dear Father, what shall I say? I am in a strait, save me from
this hour.
Yet therefore came I unto this hour, that thou mayst be glorified, when
I shall have been brought very low, and then delivered by thee.
Let it please thee, Lord, to deliver me; for, what can I do, and
whither shall I go without thee?
Grant me patience, Lord, at this time also.
Help me, my God, and then I will not fear, how grievously soever I be
afflicted.
2. And now, in these my troubles, what shall I say? Lord, thy will be
done, I have deserved to be afflicted.
Surely I ought to bear it; and O that I could bear it with patience,
until the tempest be passed over!
But thy hand is able to take even this temptation from me, and to
assuage the violence thereof, that I utterly sink not under it, as
often heretofore thou hast done unto me, O my God, my merciful God.
And the more hard it is to me, the more easy is this change to the
right hand of the Most High.