26. For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten. They are cruel where they should be pitiful. When a stroke comes to any
in the providence of God, their friends gather round them and console, but
these wretches hunt the wounded and vex the sick. Their merciless hearts invent
fresh blows for him who is “smitten
of God and afflicted.” And they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. They lay bare the
wounds with their rough tongues. If a godly man be a little down in estate, how
glad they are to push him over altogether, and meanwhile to talk everywhere
against him. God takes note of this, and will visit it upon the enemies of his
children; he may allow them to act as a rod to his saints, but he will yet
avenge his own elect.
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