daver, please be careful what you say. This being the internet, tone or intentions are many times difficult to discern. So, though I'm sure you didn't meant harm with your Babylon statement (and I'm sure there are many who would agree with your assessment concerning the PCUSA), it's too easily perceived as inflammatory and a cheap shot.

A5Pointer, I don't think he intended to say that you were partial to Babylonian teachings, etc. Nonetheless, there has been an address of the matter.

From the pen of Richard Sibbes:

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It is God that multiplies our sorrows.... God, as a righteous Judge, does it, which ought to silence us under all our sorrows; as many as they are, we have deserved them all, and more: nay, God, as a tender Father, does it for our necessary correction, that we may be humbled for sin, and weaned from the world by all our sorrows; and the good we get by them, with the comfort we have under them, will abundantly balance our sorrows, how greatly soever they are multiplied. - Matthew Henry