Do Not Think The Fiery Trial Strange - 1 Peter Commentary

The exact holy walking of a Christian really condemns the world about him: shows the disorder and foulness of their profane ways. The life of religion, set by the side of dead formality, discovers it to be a carcase, a lifeless appearance; and, for this, neither grossly wicked, nor decent, formal persons, can well digest it. There is in the life of a Christian a convincing light, that shows the deformity of the works of darkness, and a piercing heat, that scorches the ungodly, and stirs and troubles their consciences.