My soul melteth for heaviness: Strengthen thou me according unto thy word (Psa 119.28).

Real Christians are liable to the same kind of sorrows as unbelievers. The “happy-clappy religion” so popular today has denied this and fostered unrealistic expectations of Christian experience. What may surprise even sounder believers is that in some respects, real Christians are vulnerable to deeper griefs than the unconverted. Puritan Thomas Manton takes great pains to prove this in his sermon on our text:
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