Sermons preached

I. Wherein this submission consists.

Negatively, It is not to be insensible. Godliness doth not teach Men Stoicism, to harden themselves under the Rod of God. The Lord complains of that, Jer. 5. 3. I have stricken them, but they have not grieved, &c. We must lay his Hand to Heart as well as his Word. We are not to be like the Corner-Stone which bears the whole weight of the Building and feels nothing. There are two extremes, slighting the Hand of God, or fainting under it, Heb. 12. 5. and slighting is worse ⟨p. 284⟩than the other. There is no Patience where there is no sense and feeling. Certainly there can be no improvement, where there is not a feeling the Rod of God, the strokes of his correcting Hand upon us.

Negatively, It is not to be insensible. Godliness doth not teach Men Stoicism, to harden themselves under the Rod of God. The Lord complains of that, Jer. 5. 3. I have stricken them, but they have not grieved, &c. We must lay his Hand to Heart as well as his Word. We are not to be like the Corner-Stone which bears the whole weight of the Building and feels nothing. There are two extreams, slighting the Hand of God, or fainting under it, Heb. 12. 5. and slighting is worse ⟨p. 284⟩than the other. There is no Patience where there is no sense and feeling. Certainly there can be no improvement, where there is not a feeling the Rod of God, the strokes of his correcting Hand upon us.