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Case 3: The third case that comes next to be spoken to is this: How public and tender hearts may be relieved and supported when they are overweighed with the burdensome sense of Zion's troubles? He says: "I grant, it is hard for him that prefers Zion to his chief joy, to keep his heart that it sink not below the due sense of its troubles; and yet this ought, and may be done by the use of such heart-establishing directions as these." Direction # 1 – Settle this great truth in your hearts, that no trouble befalls Zion, but by the permission of Zion's God; and He permits nothing out of which He will not bring much good at last to His people.