Because of these fleshly lusts, God’s truly believing, elect, and regenerate children need the daily instruction and admonition, warning, and threatening of the Law in this life. But they also need frequent punishments. So they will be roused, ‹the old man driven out of them,› and they will follow God’s Spirit, as it is written: It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes. (Psalm 119:71) But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified. (1 Corinthians 9:27) If you are left without discipline, in
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