BOOK III: The corruption of man's whole nature, and of all the faculties of his soul by sin; and fi
To conclude: Are men enemies to the children of God? You touch the apple of his eye. You had better have a millstone hanged about your necks, and thrown into the midst of the sea, than to have offended one of these little ones. Every scoff, wry look, rising in thy heart, when God shall charge it on thy conscience, will sink thee down, down into the bottom of hell. In Zech. 12:2, 7, he compares the church unto a burdensome stone; all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the earth should be gathered together against it; and unto an hearth of fire; and wicked men that oppose them, unto wood, and a sheaf, thinking to quench that fire; but that fire shall devour all the people round about.
Or, do men oppose the word of God? Let them know that it is an armoury and storehouse of weapons, that God hath in readiness to revenge all disobedience: 2 Cor. 10:4–6, 'For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; and having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.' It hath enough of its own to revenge its own quarrel.
BOOK III:
The corruption of man's whole nature, and of all the faculties of his soul by sin; and first of the depravation of the understanding, which is full of darkness