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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.

That The Reason Why They Are Not Fallen Already And Do Not Fall Now Is Only That God's Appointed Time Is Not Come. For It Is Said, That When That Due Time, Or Appointed Time Comes, Their Foot Shall Slide. Then They Shall Be Left To Fall, As They Are Inclined By Their Own Weight. God Will Not Hold Them Up In These Slippery Places Any Longer, But Will Let Them Go; And Then, At That Very Instant, They Shall Fall Into Destruction; As He That Stands On Such Slippery Declining Ground, On The Edge Of A Pit, He Cannot Stand Alone, When He Is Let Go He Immediately Falls And Is Lost.

All Truth Is Given By Revelation, Either General Or Special, And It Must Be Received By Reason. Reason Is The God-given Means For Discovering The Truth That God Discloses, Whether In His World Or His Word. While God Wants To Reach The Heart With Truth, He Does Not Bypass The Mind.

There Are Two Sorts Of Hypocrites: Ones That Are Deceived With Their Outward Morality And External Religion; And The Others Are Those That Are Deceived With False Discoveries And Elevation; Which Often Cry Down Works, And Men's Own Righteousness, And Tlak Much Of Free Grace, But At The Same Time Make A Righteousness Of Their Discoveries And Of Their Humiliation, And Exalt Themselves To Heaven With Them.

The Pleasures Of Humility Are Really The Most Refined, Inward, And Exquisite Delights In The World.