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Consider That It Is Not Failing In This Or That Attempt To Come To Christ, But A Giving-over Of Your Endeavors, That Will Be Your Ruin.

Hatred Of Sin As Sin, Not Only As Galling Or Disquieting, A Sense Of The Love Of Christ In The Cross, Lie At The Bottom Of All True Spiritual Mortification.

Not To Be Daily Mortifying Sin, Is To Sin Against The Goodness, Kindness, Wisdom, Grace, And Love Of God, Who Hath Furnished Us With A Principle Of Doing It.

Ignorance Of God And Of Ourselves Is The Great Principle And Cause Of All Our Disquietments; And, This Ariseth Mostly Not From Want Of Light And Instruction, But For Want Of Consideration And Application.

Because He Is; That Is, Because He Is An Infinitely Glorious, Good, Wise, Holy, Powerful, Righteous, Self-subsisting , Self-sufficient , And All-sufficient Being; The Fountain And Author Of All Being And Good; The First Cause, Last End, And Sovereign Lord Of All; Therefore, He Is To Be Worshipped: Therefore, Are We To Admire, Adore, And Love Him; To Praise, To Trust And To Fear Him.