Quench Not the Spirit - The Bruised Reed Chapter 10

PRESUMING ON CHRIST'S MERCY And the best of us all might offend Christ's merciful disposition if we do not carefully watch that liberty which our fleshly nature is ready to make use of. Thus we reason, "If Christ will not quench the smoking flax, why should we fear that any neglect on our part will bring us into a comfortless condition? If Christ will not do it, what can?" You know the apostle's prohibition, "Do not quench the Spirit" (1 Thess. 5:19). Such cautions of not quenching are used by the Spirit as a means of not quenching him.