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| What the Servants of Christ Should Say in Reply to the Unbelievers Who Cast in Their Teeth that Christ Did Not Rescue Them from the Fury of Their Enemies.
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Chapter 29.—What the Servants of
Christ Should Say in Reply to the Unbelievers Who Cast in Their
Teeth that Christ Did Not Rescue Them from the Fury of Their
Enemies.
The whole family of God, most high
and most true, has therefore a consolation of its own,—a
consolation which cannot deceive, and which has in it a surer hope
than the tottering and falling affairs of earth can afford. They
will not refuse the discipline of this temporal life, in which they
are schooled for life eternal; nor will they lament their
experience of it, for the good things of earth they use as pilgrims
who are not detained by them, and its ills either prove or improve
them. As for those who insult over them in their trials, and when
ills befall them say, “Where is thy God?”83
we may ask them where their gods are
when they suffer the very calamities for the sake of avoiding which
they worship their gods, or maintain they ought to be worshipped;
for the family of Christ is furnished with its reply: our God is
everywhere present, wholly everywhere; not confined to any place.
He can be present unperceived, and be absent without moving; when
He exposes us to adversities, it is either to prove our perfections
or correct our imperfections; and in return for our patient
endurance of the sufferings of time, He reserves for us an
everlasting reward. But who are you, that we should deign to
speak with you even about your own gods, much less about our God,
who is “to be feared above all gods? For all the gods of the
nations are idols; but the Lord made the heavens.”84
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