A Puritan at Heart

For it seemed to you that you should never have come soon enough into the land of blessing: what God made you to retire from it and it ought to have been yet long time ere before you had come there Think upon it and consider it was God’s hand that held you there as it were shut up in a close prison. Now then, although God has delivered you from it yet must you bare it in mind still according as we see how King Hezekiah speaks thereof in his song saying he will bethink of the years the past with heaviness and grief of heart and call to mind the chastisement had received at God’s hand thereby to hold himself in awe, that he shall not back again into the same faults for which he had been punished. Thus you see how we ought to think upon the corrections that God shall have sent us that we may profit ourselves by them. [John Calvin]

For it seemed to you that you should never have come soon enough into the land of blessing: what God made you to retire from it and it ought to have been yet long time ere before you had come there Think upon it and consider it was God’s hand that held you there as it were shut up in a close prison. Now then, although God has delivered you from it yet must you bare it in mind still according as we see how King Hezekiah speaks thereof in his song saying he will bethink of the years the past with heaviness and grief of heart and call to mind the chastisement had received at God’s hand thereby to hold himself in awe, that he shall not back again into the same faults for which he had been punished. Thus you see how we ought to think upon the corrections that God shall have sent us that we may profit ourselves by them. [John Calvin]