Thomas Boston, Works, 5:442:
Stones to be laid in the temple above must be cut and hewed before they come there. Afflictions are God’s hewing tools, whereby he smooths people for that building; and rough and hard stones we are, that take much hewing. Instruments of our afflictions are but the hands he employs for smoothing the stones for his building.
Stones to be laid in the temple above must be cut and hewed before they come there. Afflictions are God’s hewing tools, whereby he smooths people for that building; and rough and hard stones we are, that take much hewing. Instruments of our afflictions are but the hands he employs for smoothing the stones for his building.
