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Then will I visit their transgression with the sword, and their iniquity with strokes, yet my loving kindness will I not take from him, neither will I falsify my trueth. For as a father withdraweth from his child sometimes his love, & whippeth him with the rod of correction, so the Lord dealeth often with his children & scourgeth their naked conscience. God doth judge his here, but his enemies will he judge in the world to come, if we be not punished here, the punishment will be as a thunderbolt in the day of judgment. Hast thou been afflicted, & not profited? will not a little cross serve thee? a greater shall come to thee, will not a few troubles turn thee to God, then many shall come upon thee? If a man be not troubled for sin here, it is the way to hell, if he be troubled here, it is the way to heaven. And as they which have not been troubled, having had a little joy shall have eternal pain, so they which here have had a little pain, shall after have everlasting joy. They that are corrected and have profited by it, ⟨p. 188⟩are afflicted of the Lord in mercy, but they that be vexed and amend not, receive a token of Gods further wrath. Wherefore we must not look to feel comfort in the remission of sins, unless we also have sorrow for committing our sins. For never any of gods children were comforted throughly, but they were first humbled for their sin lawfully. To the working of which humiliation, we must remember Gods judgements showed on others: hath God destroyed the whole world for sin, and can he not, or will he not destroy thee for sin? hath he overthrown whole nations, and will he suffer thee to lie still in thy sins? See how full Hell is already, and yet daily we run headlong thither. Consider also, how great thy sin was, that could not be cleansed but by the blood of Jesus Christ; Oh how soul was that sin, that nothing else could wash it, but Christ his hart blood? oh how great was our guiltiness, that were ransomed by such a price? How great was the sore, that needed such a salve? how deep was the wound, that needed such a medicine? O loving kindness, and unspeakable love towards us! Shall Christ be slain for our sins, and we not slay sin in our selves? Shall Christ die for our sins, and sin as yet is not dead in us? Shall Christ be crucified for us, and will we not crucify sin ⟨p. 189⟩in our selves?

Then will I visite their transgression with the sword, and their iniquitie with strokes, yet my louing kindnes will I not take from him, neyther will I falsifie my trueth. For as a father withdraweth from his child sometimes his loue, & whippeth him with the rod of correction, so the Lord dealeth often with his children & scourgeth their naked conscience. God doth iudge his here, but his enemies will he iudge in the world to come, if we be not punished here, the punishment wil be as a thunderbolt in the day of iudgmēt. Hast thou bene afflicted, & not profited? will not a litle crosse serue thee? a greater shall come to thee, will not a few troubles turne thee to God, then many shall come vpon thee? If a man be not troubled for sin here, it is the way to hell, if he be troubled here, it is the way to heauen. And as they which haue not bene troubled, hauing had a little ioy shall haue eternall paine, so they which here haue had a little paine, shall after haue euerlasting ioye. They that are corrected and haue profited by it,