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The natural body receives counsel and nourishment from the head; so doth the mystical body of Christ. And on the other hand, how often has the disjointing of the body, and the breakings thereof, occasioned the expiration of the spirit? In like manner it fares with the mystical body of Christ: how do divided spirits break the bonds of peace, which are the joints of this body!
Some years afterwards, I met with him in a different part of the country. He had the management of extensive flour mills. He was again doing well, and had money in his master's hands. At last there seemed to be an end of the breakings. We were sitting together when a third person entered, with a rueful countenance. "Willie," said he, with the tone of a speaking sepulchre, "hae ye heard the news?"
This being so, the question is, how Christ is to be made use of, for taking these away. For satisfaction to this, it would be considered, that in those daily out breakings there are two things to be noticed.
Hope will exercise itself upon God by those breakings wherewith he breaketh his people for their sins. The valley of Achor; what is that? I say, hope can gather by this, that God has a love to the soul; for when God hateth a man he chastiseth him not for his trespasses. And why thus consider, but that a door might be opened for hope to exercise itself upon God by this? Is not here a door of hope?
Burnings at the stake, breakings on the wheel and other ferocious methods of execution which were occasionally inflicted by the colonial courts were almost universally discontinued soon after the beginning of the nineteenth century.
"Were any people ever taken up and punished for those nocturnal breakings?" said I. "No, sir; and I have heard say that nobody's being taken up was a proof that the rich approved of the work and had a hand in it." Night had come on by the time we reached the foot of the huge hills we had crossed in the morning.
In his neck remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved. His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, as hard as a piece of the nether millstone. When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves.
The hollowness also, and various reflections and breakings of the clouds, may be great causes thereof, besides the great coldness of the middle region of the air, by which these fiery exhalations, when they ascend there, are suddenly driven back with great force.
The four cabins were inhabited by Maine Yankees who had come up the Mississippi to St. Paul and driven north over virgin prairie into virgin woods. They ground their own corn; the men-folks shot ducks and pigeons and prairie chickens; the new breakings yielded the turnip-like rutabagas, which they ate raw and boiled and baked and raw again.
The wreck and ruin strewn about the floor consorted with the ruin of his fortunes; let all go smash what was the use of caring? Now in his frenzy, he, ordinarily so careful, seemed to delight in the smashings and the breakings; they suited his despair. He saw that his spirit of destruction frightened them, too, and that was another reason to indulge it.
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