39. As they change in character, so do their circumstances alter. Under the
old dispensation, this was very clearly to be observed; Israel’s ups and downs
were the direct consequences of her sins and repentances. Trials are of various
kinds; here we have three words for affliction, and there are numbers more: God
has many rods and we have many smarts, and all because we have many sins. Nations
and churches soon diminish in number when they are diminished in grace.
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