If chastisements are good, then they cannot have too much of a good thing!
Fear makes only slaves, and slaves are cowardly, base, cruel, and think every thing lawful, in order to gain the favour or escape the chastisements of the master whom they fear.
They fear that this is an indication of the displeasure of heaven, and that the chastisements they deserve for their sins may soon come on them.
Iahvah's chastisements to reclaim a people hardened in guilt, and in a self-righteousness which refused warning and despised reproof; affirms the futility of all human aid amid the national reverses; and cries woe on a too late repentance.
The long years of the captivity, though they constituted an invaluable period of discipline, did not bring any fresh kind of punishment at all comparable with the chastisements already inflicted.
If the calamities bewailed are the chastisements of sin it is necessary for this sin to be sought out.
It is a well-written but badly arranged martyrology, and over all its pages might be inscribed the Talmudical motto, that God's chastisements of Israel are chastisements of love.
The privilege of guiding the work of bringing forth out of the Divine Storehouse all the Master's store of provisions, as needed, and of directing the execution upon the nominal church of the chastisements promised in the Holy Word.
Adversity in the guise of human injustice and wrong generally indurates and embitters; and the chastisements that chasten are those which come directly from the hand of Him "who doeth all things well.
The sufferings and the chastisements of those who have come to this altitude often increase as the vision becomes clearer.
The most detested of all chastisements will be exclusion from the pleasant exercise of learning.
Dislike of the evils that are in the world, or of chastisements sent by God, is not dislike of God Himself, since God does not ask us to love evil, but only to endure such evils as cannot be cured.
The Egyptians at the time of the plagues could reasonably forecast grievous chastisements on account of their wickedness (Wis.
Know this day the things that your children know not, who saw not the chastisements of the Lord your God, his great doings and strong hand, and stretched out arm, 11:3.
To execute vengeance upon the nations, chastisements among the people: 149:8.
It is likewise with the chastisements of God, which also depend upon their causes.
And further, according to this doctrine, chastisementswould have no object save the prevention of future evil, without which the mere consideration of the evil already done would not be sufficient for punishment.
St. Paul, not content with his continual fatigues and sufferings, added voluntary chastisements of his flesh to subdue it.
As nitre cleanses the body, so distempers and other chastisements purify the soul.
How could a just God consent that a God exempt from all sin should endure thechastisements which are due to sinners?
Fear those chastisements which follow inattention to this law.
It is a contempt of our own afflictions, and his chastisements of us, by which he would drive us from our sins.
Parents and masters, who should be examples of gravity and staidness to their families; and by their reproofs and chastisements should repress such faults in their inferiors.
Though dark to us thy ways may seem, Thy needful chastisements severe; Thou dost not willingly afflict, Nor grieve thy erring children here.
E'er deem thy chastisements severe; But may this heart, by sorrow taught, Calm each wild wish, each idle fear.
Did you not think that my character {156} was injured in the minds of the weaker part of the camp in consequence of those reproofs and chastisements which were given me by Brother Joseph?
This and other chastisements are rather what it has deserved, and to resist them is nothing else than to resist God's chastisement.
But these prattlers speak only of fear in the ban, though they teach that all other chastisements and misfortunes are to be borne cheerfully.
And as to their religion, by what is recorded, it seems that their proneness to worship the gods of their neighbors, is what brought on the chastisements of Heaven.
The smallest deviation of his chosen people in the performance of some trifling ceremony, would at times call down the most horrid chastisements on both the innocent and the guilty.
The miracles and the chastisements which they recite were all tokens of the sure promise, tokens that the people were not forgotten, but constantly aided by instruction, warning, and reproof.
It cannot be otherwise, for on them His chastisements have little effect.
The oath indicates that one accepts in advance the chastisements God does not fail to inflict upon those who invoke his name in vain.
It is composed of the chastisements which the law has established for the guilty.
Although we say in a general way that the ills that befall men are often the chastisements of their faults, yet this should not be taken too strictly, otherwise we should too easily transform the merely unfortunate into criminals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chastisements" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
