Postmode

Is it nothing to you that God should kill your child in anger, ruin your estate in anger, break your bones in anger, suffer you to be a scandal and reproach in anger, kill you, destroy you, make you lie down in darkness in anger? Is this nothing to you, that he might punish, ruin, and undo others because of your sin?

Let me not be mistaken. I do not mean that God always sends these things on His children in anger; God forbid! But this I will say, when He does deal with you in such a way, and your conscience bears witness with Him that you have provoked His judgment, you will find that His dealings will be full of bitterness to your soul. If you do not fear these things, I fear you have been hardened by sin.

- John Owen, Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers (HT: Bob Buchanan)

This is the outcome of lust in the heart; it darkens the mind so that it does not rightly judge the guilt of sin.

- John Owen, Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers (HT: Bob Buchanan)

blo·vi·ate [bloh-vee-eyt]
–verb, ‑at·ed, ‑at·ing.
to speak pompously.

- HT: Kevin O’Neill