Plea 9
But I have sinned in this relation, and now God has punished my sin in dissolving it. One says: My heart was set too much upon it, I even idolized it — that was my sin. Another says: I lacked proper affection and did not love my relation, or at least not as spiritually as I ought — that was my sin. Now God is visiting me for all the neglects and deficiencies that have been in me toward my relation.