The Treatises of Cyprian

1. That the believer is amended and reserved.

In the cxviith Psalm: “The Lord amending hath amended me, and hath not delivered me to death.”(Ps. cxviii. 18) Also in the eighty-eighth Psalm: “I will visit their transgressions with a rod, and their sins with scourges. But my mercy will I not scatter away from them.”(Ps. lxxxix. 32, 33) Also in Malachi: “And He shall sit melting and purifying, as it were, gold and silver; and He shall purify the sons of Levi.”(Mal. iii. 3) Also in the Gospel: “Thou shalt not go out thence until thou pay the uttermost farthing.”(Matt. v. 26)