“Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.” Isaiah 48:10 Trials, sufferings, afflictions, vexations, and disappointments are our appointed lot. And though grievous to the flesh, yet when they are sanctified to the soul’s good—are made to be some of our choicest blessings! Levity, carelessness, and indifference, with a general hardness and deadness…