There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.

Some have asked whether we shall know one another in heaven? Surely, our knowledge will not be diminished, but increased. The judgement of Luther and Anselm, and many other divines is, that we shall know one another; yea, the saints of all ages, whose faces we never saw; and, when we shall see the saints in glory without their infirmities of pride end passion, it will be a glorious sight.

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.