3. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger. Mental depression tells upon the bodily frame; it is enough to create
and foster every disease, and is in itself the most painful of all diseases.
Soul sickness tells upon the entire frame; it weakens the body, and then bodily
weakness reacts upon the mind. Neither is there any rest in my bones becauseof my sin. Deeper still the malady penetrates, till the bones are affected.
No soundness and no rest are two sad deficiencies; yet these are both
consciously gone from every awakened conscience until Jesus gives relief. God’s
anger is a fire that dries up the very marrow; it searches the secret parts of
the belly. A man who has pain in his bones tosses to and fro in search of rest,
but finds none; he becomes worn out with agony, and so in many cases a sense of
sin creates in the conscience a horrible unrest which cannot be exceeded in
anguish except by hell itself.
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