Fill Your Affections With The Cross Of

The Purpose Of Our Holy And Righteous God Was To Save His Church, But Their Sin Could Not Go Unpunished. It Was, Therefore, Necessary That The Punishment For That Sin Be Transferred From Those Who Deserved It But Could Not Bear It, To One Who Did Not Deserve It But Was Able To Bear It.

If We Would Talk Less And Pray More About Them, Things Would Be Better Than They Are In The World: At Least, We Should Be Better Enabled To Bear Them.

Sin Aims Always At The Utmost; Every Time It Rises Up To Tempt Or Entice, If It Has Its Own Way It Will Go Out To The Utmost Sin In That Kind. Every Unclean Thought Or Glance Would Be Adultery If It Could, Every Thought Of Unbelief Would Be Atheism If Allowed To Develop. Every Rise Of Lust, If It Has Its Way Reaches The Height Of Villainy; It Is Like The Grave That Is Never Satisfied. The Deceitfulness Of Sin Is Seen In That It Is Modest In Its First Proposals But When It Prevails It Hardens Men’s Hearts, And Brings Them To Ruin.

Sin Also Carries On Its War By Entangling The Affections And Drawing Them Into An Alliance Against The Mind. Grace May Be Enthroned In The Mind, But If Sin Controls The Affections, It Has Seized A Fort From Which It Will Continually Assault The Soul. Hence, As We Shall See, Mortification Is Chiefly Directed To Take Place Upon The Affections.

The Seed Of Every Sin Is In Every Heart.