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1 Cor. 11.When we are iudged, then shall wee bee chastised of the Lord, that we be not damned with the world.
HEere doth Saint Paul shew the cause why God doth lay the crosse vpon his people.
Hée doth the same, that wée may attaine vnto his holines.
For it is certaine, if GOD should giue to vs all that wee would willingly haue, wee should bée safe, and haue no regard of our sinnes, neither thinke on the Word or Pray∣er.
But when all goeth ouer and ouer, and now one affli∣ction, and then another hap∣neth, then hath a man cause to hasten, not onely to prayer, but also to thinke, how wee with our sinnes haue well de∣serued such correction: And therefore hencefoorth to pre∣pare our selues more earnest∣ly, for amendement of our liues: As it is saide in the Epistle to the Hebrews: Our Father in Heauen doth cha∣stise vs for our good, that
we may attayne vnto his ho∣linesse.