Isaiah 48:10 Behold, I have refined you, but not with silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction.… In 1553 Sir Thomas Palmer was led from the Tower to be executed. He leaped upon the scaffold, red with the blood of four companions previously executed. "Good-morning to you all, good people," he said, looking round him with a smile; "ye come hither to see me die, and to see what nerve I have. Marry, I will tell you: I have seen more in yonder terrible place (the Tower) than ever I saw before throughout all the realms that ever I wandered in: for there I have seen God. I have seen the world, and I have seen myself: and when I beheld my life, I saw nothing but slime and clay, full of corruption: I saw the world nothing else but vanity, and all the pleasure thereof nothing worth: I saw God omnipotent, His power infinite, His mercy incomprehensible: and when I saw this, I submitted myself to Him, beseeching of His mercy and pardon, and I trust He hath forgiven me: for He called me once or twice before, but I would not turn to Him, but even now, by this sharp kind of death, He hath called me unto Him." (H. O. Mackey.) Parallel Verses KJV: Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.WEB: Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have chosen you in the furnace of affliction. |
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