John Calvin on Chastisement
“Let us remember that the taste of God’s love towards us cannot be had by us under chastisements, except we be fully persuaded that they are fatherly scourges by which he chastises us for our profit. No such thing can occur to the minds of the reprobate, for they are like fugitives.”
John Calvin, Epistle to the Hebrews, p. 316.
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