Old Lutheran Quote of the Day

Therefore when the teaching about true chastity is to be offered, one must not hurl abusive missiles at marriage, but one must look most of all to this, that the divine prohibitions, threats, and examples of punishments against disorderly lusts are pressed home and inculcated with the strongest admonitions.  For this is a powerful remedy through the Spirit of purification, lest the heart be misled or oppressed by sloth or the mind rendered reprobate and lest the conscience be so hardened that it can no longer grieve. -- Blessed Martin Chemnitz, Examen III:19