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Updated: June 11, 2025
'He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. Let us beware of meeting God's prophet with shuffling lies about our obedience, and of opposing to the words which are loving though they pierce, the armour of impenetrable self- righteousness and conceit.
War is a scourge of the wrath of God, which by famine, fire, or sword humbleth the spirits of the repentant, trieth the patience of the faithful, and hardeneth the hearts of the ungodly. It is the misery of time and the terror of Nature, the dispeopling of the earth and the ruin of her beauty. Her life is action, her food blood, her honour valour, and her joy conquest.
He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy. When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
The Bible Deity 'has mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth; is 'jealous, especially of other Gods; changeful, vindictive, partial, cruel, unjust, 'angry with the wicked every day; and altogether a Being far from respectable, or worthy to be considered infinite in wisdom, power, and goodness.
The New Englanders were at this time, towards the close of the seventeenth century, rigorous Calvinists, with long sermons and tedious monotonous prayers, with hell before them for ever on one side, and a tyrannical, sour and austere God on the other, jealous of an arbitrary sovereignty, who hath "mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth."
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