The blessings of Quivers and arrows
Children are the blessings of the Lord.
They are put here as part of his inheritance. Children are an heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is his reward. They are special blessings. Children (as it is to be observed) are a resemblance of our immortality, because a man revives again, lives anew (as it were) in every child; he is born again (in a civil sense) when others are born to him. There be some who account their children, but bils of charges, but God puts them upon the account of our mercies; how holily and piously speaks Jacob concerning his children. These (saith he) are the children which God hath graciously given thy servant.
Some think themselves blessed, if they may have one or two children; one to inherit their estates, one or two to delight themselves in, to play with, or to bear their name; but if they come a number, to a great number, they then think themselves exceedingly burdened, then they are troubles. When God casts up the estate of a blessed man in outward things, he saith not only that he hath a child, that he is not barren, but that he hath many children, that he hath his quiver full of such arrows, as the expression is, Psalm 127:5. and that is made the blessedness of a man there, Happy is the man (saith he) that hath his quiver full of them, that hath many arrows, such are children of the youth, Verse 4. There are some rich and covetesous men, that are in this point beyond other rich in folly. You shall hear them pride themselves, that they have no children, or but few; this they conceive sets them off in the opinion of the world for the richer men, whereas one child is more riches than all the things that are in the world. And we know it is an ordinary thing (though indeed it is a very sinful thing) to say, tis true such a one is a rich man, he hath a fair estate, but he hath a great charge, a great many children, as if that did take off from his riches, or make him less happy; as if he were the poorer because he hath a larger share of that ancient blessing upon man, Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth. [Joseph Caryl]
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Nothing much to tell. I’m walking a single solitary pilgrims walk, in England, that is not an easy one. I am a Calvinistic Covenanter Christian, My Autonomic Nervous system is failing slowly, which has led to severe disability, with an ultra rare disease than medics don’t even understand, often misdiagnose.and will no doubt kill me at some point. But, I trust the Lord to get me where I’m going. All glory to HIM.
The symptomology listed on the link, most porphyrics will only have most of those symptoms if in an acute attack. A few of us, with the ongoing, smouldering symptoms, that never go away, have most if not all of the symptom list, even when not in an acute attack, and are persistent and constant. Anyone who has ever been in the psychiactric system, diagnosed as this or that, even if physically well, should consider this illness could be responsible. King George III, the most famous porphyric, his sole symptom was “insanity.” Its so rare in part, because it’s massively under-diagnosed. But in making this illness known, when it struck me physically a few years ago, God vindicated me from every mis-diagnoses and bersmirchment upon me medically that has ever been made, and has made them all null and void.
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