Pause, Reader, over this verse, and observe in it an awful testimony to the great leading truths of scripture. Until grace enters the heart, no corrections, though ever so great, ever so heavy, ever so multiplied, will reach the soul. See that scripture: Psalms 78:31. Gracious God! sanctify thy afflictions to our souls, and then our souls will be sanctified to praise thee!

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