Christ Gives Peace To The Most Sinful

The Deceitfulness Of The Heart Of Man Appears In No One Thing So Much As This Of Spiritual Pride And Self-righteousness. The Subtlety Of Satan Appears In Its Height, In His Managing Persons With Respect To This Sin. And Perhaps One Reason May Be That Here He Has Most Experience; He Knows The Way Of Its Coming In; He Is Acquainted With The Secret Springs Of It: It Was His Own Sin. Experience Gives Vast Advantage In Leading Souls, Either In Good Or Evil.

If There Be Ground For You To Trust, As You Do, In Your Own Righteousness, Then All That Christ Did To Purchase Salvation, And All That God Did From The Fall Of Man To Prepare The Way For It, Is In Vain. Consider What Greater Folly Could You Have Devised To Charge Upon God Than This, That All Those Things Were Done So Needlessly; When, Instead Of All This, He Might Only Have Called You Forth, And Committed The Business To You, Which You Think You Can Do So Easily.

Family Education And Order Are Some Of The Chief Means Of Grace; If These Are Duly Maintained, All The Means Of Grace Are Likely To Prosper And Become Effectual.

But It Is Doubtless True, And Evident From [the] Scriptures, That The Essence Of All True Religion Lies In Holy Love; And That In This Divine Affection, And An Habitual Disposition To It, And That Light Which Is The Foundation Of It, And Those Things Which Are The Fruits Of It, Consists The Whole Of Religion.

Every Christian Family Ought To Be As It Were A Little Church.