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Calvin on Suffering

| Friday, May 05, 2006

"Let us mark then, that here the devil betrays a desease wherewith we are all tainted, until God has healed us by His grace; that is to wit that in time of prosperity we can bless God; but if He afflicts us we change our mind, and thenceforth we change our mind, and begin to grudge against Him, forgetting all the praise which we have given Him so long as He dealt with us after our desires. And so there may be hypocrites which cannot be known nor discovered until God sends them adversity. For so long as they’re easy and be at rest, they show not the rebelliousness that is within them, but let it lie hid Lo here the c ause why the Scripture oftentimes shows us that God trys those that are his, sifting them by afflictions, and c asting them as it were gold into a furnace, not only to purge them, but also to make them known" Calvin's fifth sermon on 1st chapter of Job

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