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Thou Hast No Life To Lose, Because Thou Hast Given It Already To Christ, Nor Can Man Take Away That Without God's Leave.

How Many, Alas, Of The Precious Saints Of God Must We Shut Out From Being Believers, If There Is No Faith But What Amounts To Assurance.... Shall We Say Their Faith Went Away In The Departure Of Their Assurance?

Oh, It Is Sad For A Poor Christian To Stand At The Door Of The Promise, In The Dark Night Of Affliction, Afraid To Draw The Latch, Whereas He Should Then Come Boldly For Shelter As A Child Into His Father's House.

God, To Prevent All Escape, Hath Sown The Seeds Of Death In Our Very Constitution And Nature, So That We Can As Soon Run From Ourselves, As Run From Death. We Need No Feller To Come With A Hand Of Violence And Hew Us Down; There Is In The Tree A Worm, Which Grows Out Of Its Own Substance, That Will Destroy It; So In Us, Those Infirmities Of Nature That Will Bring Us Down To The Dust.

Say Not That Thou Hast Royal Blood In Thy Veins; Say Not That Thou Art Born Of God If Thou Canst Not Prove Thy Pedigree By Daring To Be Holy!