Puritans on Chastisement

None but the godly are capable of desertion. Wicked men know not what God’s love means, nor what it is to want it…..You fear you are not God’s child because you are deserted.

The Lord cannot be said to withdraw His love from the wicked, because they never had it. The being deserted, evidences you to be a child of God. How could you complain that God has estranged Himself, if you had not sometimes received smiles and tokens Of love from Him?

– Thomas Watson

We may feel God’s hand as a Father upon us when He strikes us as well as when He strokes us.

– Abraham Wright

Whatsoever we have over-loved, idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to see the vanity of it; so that we find the readiest course to be rid of our comforts is to set our hearts inordinately upon them.

– John Flavel

God’s wounds cure, sin’s kisses kill

– William Gurnall

Better be pruned to grow than cut up to burn.

– John Trapp

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

– John Bunyan

Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if you did not over-love them and get them unjustly, or if in your children, see if you did not over-love them and cocker them, and so in all things of like kind. in what God smites you, see if you have not in that sinned against Him, and so frame to lament your sins and to seek help against them.

– William Whately

It is in mercy and in measure that God chastiseth His Children.

– John Trapp

Deze tekst is geautomatiseerd gemaakt en kan nog fouten bevatten. Digibron werkt voortdurend aan correctie. Klik voor het origineel door naar de pdf. Voor opmerkingen, vragen, informatie: contact.

Op Digibron -en alle daarin opgenomen content- is het databankrecht van toepassing. Gebruiksvoorwaarden. Data protection law applies to Digibron and the content of this database. Terms of use.

Printen