57. That the believer is amended and reserved.

In the cxviith Psalm: “The Lord amending hath amended me, and hath not delivered me to death.”^44644464    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.”^44654465    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.”^44664466    Mal. iii. 3. Also in the Gospel:  “Thou shalt not go out thence until thou pay the uttermost farthing.”^44674467    Matt. v. 26.