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The Bruce Reed by Richard Sibs
O'Mahaw: I want to leave our listeners with this passage from the book, The Bruce Reed by the 17th century Puritan, Richard Sibs. We must conceive of a bruising either as a state into which God brings us or as a duty to be performed by us. When he humbles us, let us humble ourselves and not stand out against him, for then he will redouble his strokes. Let us justify Christ in all his testisements, knowing that all his dealing towards us is to cause us to return into our own hearts. His work in bruising tends to our work, in bruising ourselves. Then we will cry out for mercy. Conviction will breed