One stroke falls on the sinner, for punishment only, not conversion; another for correction; another not for correction of past sins, but prevention of future; another neither for correcting past, nor preventing future sins, but by the unexpected deliverance following the blow, to excite more ardent love of the Saviour’s goodness.
Reproduced in full. Translation: Oxford 1841 (Newman), public domain (Public domain).
Also cites: in Præf. Moral. c. 5