In the meantime… have you tried finding the book in public domain and making a personal book?
Here's a sample:
Psalm 27:13
I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
In times of sore distress and affliction, whether in soul or body, saints are taught many sweet lessons. Chastenings from the Lord are all in love; by them our God teaches them to profit. “No chastening for the present is joyous, but grievous.” In the dark night of suffering, Christians sigh out many a doleful strain. Sometimes according to all appearances from nature, sense, feeling, and the judgement of reason, they are ready to cry out, “All things are against me.” Hence their courage sinks, their hopes and their hearts fail them, and they are ready to faint; but they have an invisible Friend always near them; He supports them by His power under all their trials and their conflicts; supplies with comforting cordials, revives their spirits with the consolations of His word, and when He brings them out of their troubles, then how sweetly do they sing of Him! How many a joyful psalm! What a rich treasury of experience are we favoured with from the pen of David, dipt in the ink of affliction! How sweetly doe he indite, to the glory of his God and the comfort of his Father’s children in after ages! He believed, therefore he spake. Unless he had believed, he had fainted.
Faith will support when all things else fail. Oh what a soul supporting grace is faith! Why so? Because it looks to, depends upon, trusts in an almighty, faithful, covenant-keeping God. Faith consults not flesh and blood, but the word of grace and truth. By faith we endure every sight of affliction, every onset of the enemy, seeing Him who is invisible. As faith is the support of the soul, so the object of faith Jesus, He is both faith’s Author and Strength. “Thy faith shall not fail,” saith Jesus to Peter; “I have prayed for thee.” It failed not as an abiding principle in the heart unto salvation, though it did in the confession of the lips. While the precious head is praying above, the dear members shall be kept in faith below. Though poor souls, through the enemy’s power, the corruptions and rebellions of the flesh, may speak unadvisedly with their lips as David did. Psalm 116:10-11, “I believed, therefore I spoke, ‘I am greatly afflicted.” I said in my haste, “All men are liars.” ‘ But in their right mind they give all glory to God, confess His goodness, and take shame to themselves for such base declarations, and, from their own experience, give sweet advice to their brethren. I had fainted unless I had believed. Therefore do thou, “Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart; wait I say on the Lord.”
Great God, Thy glories shall employ
My holy fear, my humble joy;
My lips in songs of honour, bring,
The tribute to th’ eternal King.
And will this glorious Lord descend
To be my Father and my Friend!
Then let my songs with angels join,
Heav’n’s secure, for Christ is mine.
William Mason, Esquire
This belongs in the Suggestions forum. I'll request that it be moved over there.
