Select Notes of the Preaching of Rowland Hill

Edwin Sidney

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. ... SERMON VI. THE RODS OF AFFLICTION. Job v, 17, 18. "Behold, happy is the man whom God therefore despise not thou the chastening of the for he maieth sore, and bindeth he woundcth, and his hands make whole." In this chapter we are told that "man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards." He is born in sin, and sin and sorrow are inseparably connected with each other, either as a punishment against the wicked, in a way of wrath and vengeance, or else as a chastisement of the righteous, in the way of loving correction for their eternal good. Under this view of the case, we who are believers in Christ should remember, that whatever comes, comes in love. The words of scripture are, "thy loving correction shall make me great."1 "I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction." ~ "It is good for me that I have been afflicted."3 There is a great degree of natural wantonness and levity in the mind of man; he is not impressed with a sense of those things which are of eternal importance; he is a thoughtless, light-minded, inconsiderate creature, whence the force of the expression, "in the time of adversity consider." 1 Ps. xviii, 35. Translation of the book of Common Prayer. Why, it may be asked, does not God punish the wicked more speedily than he does? Because they are awfully left, like the Amorites of old, to fill up the measure of their iniquity, while the erring children of God are punished in a way of mercy and compassion. They have, as St. Paul says, "forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto them as unto children;"4 and they are therefore chastised for their good, that their disobedience may be subdued, that they may be the better for correction so deserved, and be brought low for their future advantage....

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First published September 12, 2013