Consider That It Is Not

It Is The Spirit Alone That Can Mortify Sin; He Is Promised To Do It, And All Other Means Without Him Are Empty And Vain. How Shall He, Then, Mortify Sin That Has Not The Spirit? A Man May Easier See Without Eyes, Speak Without A Tongue, Than Truly Mortify One Sin Without The Spirit.

Let Our Hearts Admit, “i Am Poor And Weak. Satan Is Too Subtle, Too Cunning, Too Powerful; He Watches Constantly For Advantages Over My Soul. The World Presses In Upon Me With All Sorts Of Pressures, Pleas, And Pretences. My Own Corruption Is Violent, Tumultuous, Enticing, And Entangling. As It Conceives Sin, It Wars Within Me And Against Me. Occasions And Opportunities For Temptation Are Innumerable. No Wonder I Do Not Know How Deeply Involved I Have Been With Sin. Therefore, On God Alone Will I Rely For My Keeping. I Will Continually Look To Him.

We All Profess That We Are Bound For Heaven, Immortality, And Glory: But Is It Any Evidence That We Really Design It If All Our Thoughts Are Consumed About The Trifles Of This World, Which We Must Leave Behind Us, And Have Only Occasional Thoughts Of Things Above?

I Will Not Judge A Person To Be Spiritually Dead Whom I Have Judged Formerly To Have Had Spiritual Life, Though I See Him At Present In A Swoon (faint)as To All Evidences Of The Spiritual Life. And The Reason Why I Will Not Judge Him So Is This -- Because If You Judge A Person Dead, You Neglect Him, You Leave Him; But If You Judge Him In A Swoon,(faint) Though Never So Dangerous, You Use All Means For The Retrieving Of His Life.

We Shall Not Benefit From Reading The Old Testament Unless We Look For And Meditate On The Glory Of Christ In Its Pages.