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To Say That We Are Able By Our Own Efforts To Think Good Thoughts Or Give God Spiritual Obedience Before We Are Spiritually Regenerate Is To Overthrow The Gospel And The Faith Of The Universal Church In All Ages.

It Is A Throne Of Grace That God In Christ Is Represented To Us Upon; But Yet Is Is A Throne Still Whereon Majesty And Glory Do Reside, And God Is Always To Be Considered By Us As On A Throne.

It Is Not The Glorious Battlements, The Painted Windows, The Crouching Gargoyles That Support A Building, But The Stones That Lie Unseen In Or Upon The Earth. It Is Often Those Who Are Despised And Trampled On That Bear Up The Weight Of A Whole Nation.

A Man May Be Carried On In A Constant Course Of Mortification All His Days; And Yet Perhaps Never Enjoy A Good Day Of Peace And Consolation.

There Is No Broader Way To Apostasy Than To Reject God's Sovereignty In All Things Concerning The Revelation Of Himself And Our Obedience.