Objection for fainting believers under affliction which they commonly alledge is ground for their complaint.

No Wonder I faint under my affliction, for I want those consolations and supports which God useth to reserve for afflicted saints.

Answer: If God nwo be chastening you for your sins, you must be content to feel the bitterness of sin, before you can taste the sweetness of God’s consolations.

2. Can you say that your afflictions have duly humble you and fitted you for comfort? Have they yet brought you to a willingness to quit and renounce all your beloved sins, and even to part with all your eathly enjoyments and comforts at God’s call, and be content with God in Christ alone for your happiness and your portion? If this be not done, your afflictions have not had their due affect to prepare you for comfort, and till then you cannot expect it. You are in the hands of a wise and skilful Physician, who will not too hastily heal and bind up your sores, so as to let them spoil and fester at the bottom.

3. Though you should have no sensible consolations from God in your present trial, you must still labour to keep in the way of duty, and live by faith on his promises. Beleive firmly that God is good to them that love him, and that there is forgivneess with him for the penitent sinner. And if all stars withdraw their light while you are in God’s way, then assure yourself that God is near the rising.
—John Willison